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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
8. Blumea, DC. 
Herbs, annual or perennial, glandular-pubescent or woolly. Leaves 
alternate, rarely entire, usually lobed or toothed. Heads in pani- 
culate cymes, rarely in racemes, heterogamous, disciform, yellow or 
purplish. Bay-florets in several series, 2 , fertile, filiform, 2- or 3- 
toothed. Disk-florets ^ , few, fertile, with slender tube and 5-toothed 
limb. Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; its bracts in several rows, 
narrow, acute, herbaceous, the outer smaller ; receptacle flat, naked. 
Anthers with sagittate bases produced into small slender tails. Style- 
arms of the hermaphrodite flower flattened or filiform, rarely connate 
with the nearest anthers. Cypselas small, sub-terete or angular, with or 
without ridges ; pappus hairs in a single row, slender, often caducous. 
— Distrib. About 60 species, in tropical and sub-tropical Asia, Africa, 
and Australia. 
Seandent ; pappus white 
Large shrub ; pappus red 
Erect herbs ; pappus white : — 
Heads in small sessile clusters of 2 or 3 in the axils of small 
bracts on an elongated pseudo-spike 
Heads few (1 to 6), in short, axillary, condensed, pedunculate 
cymes ; leaves oblaneeolate or obovate, dentate but not lobed ; 
flowers purple 
Heads sessile or sub-sessile, in lax, shortly-branched, leafy 
cymose panicles ; leaves oblaneeolate, dentate but not lobed ; 
flowers yellow . . 
Heads sessile or sub-sessile, in axillary spikes several inches 
long, arranged in a pseudo-panicle ; leaves oblaneeolate, den- 
tate and sometimes lobulate ; flowers yellow 
1. B. chinensis. 
2. B. balsamifera. 
3. B. glomerata. 
4. B. Wightiana. 
5. B. laeera. 
6. B. membranacea. 
1. Blumea chinensis, DC. Prod. V. 444. Seandent; young 
branches half as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous, much striate and 
dark brown when dry. Leaves membranous, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 
acuminate or acute, narrowed to the rounded base, the edges with 
remote, narrow, small sharp teeth, or sub-entire ; both surfaces glabrous, 
the upper dark-brown and shining, the lower paler and tinged oliva- 
ceous ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, thin but distinct 
on the lower surface, faint on the upper ; length 2-25 to 3 - 25 in. ; 
breadth '85 to 1-4 in. ; petiole -2 to - 3 in. Heads -35 in. across, sessile, 
in small pedunculate axillary cymes, 3 in. long, diminishing upwards to 
•75 in. in length ; the peduncles and their branches everywhere pubes- 
cent, sometimes a small cyme with 2 to 4 heads in the same axil as a 
longer one. Involucral bracts of the outer two series short, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, blunt, densely pubescent, those of the inner two twice as long 
