PiticHEA.J COMTOSITM, 457 



wings. Leaves sessile, 1-4 in. long, narrowly oblong, acute, den- 

 ticulate or sub entire, rough above, woolly beneath, decurrent on the 

 stem at their base. Heads | in. in diam., racemed on the winged axil- 

 lary branches, nodding in fruit. Invol-bracts many ; outer short, her- 

 baceous, often recurved, inner longer and straight. Flowers purplish, 

 corolla of outer slender. Achenes appressedly hairy. Pappus white. 

 Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. Flowers in Oct. Distrib. Trop. 

 Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. from Simla to Sikkim and in the hilly districts 

 of Central and S. India to Ceylon and Burma ; also in Trop Africa, 

 Madagascar, China, Java, and the Philippines. 



2. L. aurita, Schultz-Bip. ex Clarice Comp' Ind. 82; F. B. I. in, 271; 

 Watt E. D. ; CooTce Fl. Bomb, ii, 24. Conyza aurita, L. f. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind^ 

 m, 428. 



A perennial herb, viscidly pubescent or villous. Stem up to 2 ft. high, erect, 

 cylindrical, not winged. Leaves sessile or petioled, 2-4 in, long on the 

 main stem, the upper smaller and bractlike, oblanceolate, subacute, 

 toothed lobed or i-pinnatifid, shortly decurrent. Heads f-^ in. in diam., 

 arranged in terminal panicled corymbs. Invol-hracts slender, linear, 

 acute, softly villous ; inner longer, scarious. Receptacle glabrous. 

 Flowers pink. Achenes hairy, dark red. 



Abundant within the area. Flowers in Feb. and March. Distrib. 

 From the Punjab plain and Bengal south to Travancore, eastward to 

 Chittagong and Burma, extending to Trop. Africa. The whole plant 

 smells strongly of turpentine. 



3. L. flava, Benth ^ Hooh.f. Gen. PI. ii, 290; F. B. I. Hi, 270; Collett 

 Fl. Siml. 253. Erigeron falcatum, Don Prod. 172. 



A slender glabrous or puberulous herb 6 in. to 3 ft. high. 8tem simple or 

 corymbosely branched above, sulcate. Leaves 1-3 in. long, lower 

 petioled ; cauline i-amplexicaul, ovate-lanceolate or obovate, sharply 

 dentate or incised or sometimes almost entire, membranous, glabrous 

 or subscabrous. Heads few, ^ in. in diam., on the slender branches of 

 loose panicled cymes. Outer invol-hracts ovate, acute ; inner longer, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, all glabrous or with ciliate margins. Receptacle 

 glabrous. Flowers golden-yellow ; lobes of herm. corolla glabrous. 



Anthers sagittate. Achenes very minute, glabrous. Pappus white. 



Siwalik range (Falconer, Gamble), forest-tracts in N. Oudh (Hearle, 

 Duthie). Flowers during the cold season, Distrib. Outer Himalaya 

 up to 6,000 ft. from Garhwal to Sikkim and Bhutan and in the hilly 

 parts of Bengal, Central and S. India ; also in Burma and in the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



l£" PLUCHEA, Cass. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 271. 



Shrubs rarely herbs, tomentose or glutinous. Leaves alternate. 

 Heads small, in terminal leafless corymbs, or large and subsolitary, 

 heterogamous, disciform, white, yellow or lilac, Outep /lowers 



