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(or more), linear-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous or almost glabrous, 
1-nerved, longer than the copious white pappus ; corolla-lobes hairy ; 
receptacle and cypselas silky, white. Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 268. 
Gonyza chinensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 862 ; Blume Bijdr. 898. B. longispina, 
Zoll. et Morr. Syst. Verz. 121. G. serici-vestita, Wall. Cat. 2996b. 
Baccharis jiitida, Wall, Cat. 3043. 
Penang : Gurtis 2824 ; Wallich 2996, 3043. Singapobe : Bidley 
2744. Pebak : Scortechini 1471. 
Vab. riparia, King & Gamble. Young leaves and stems somewhat 
hairy ; main-nerves of leaves 3 to 4 pairs, depressed on the upper 
surface. Blumea riparia, DC Prod. Y. 444 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 85. 
Gonyza riparia, Blume Bijdr. 899. 
Pebak: King’s Collector 1214; Scortechini. — Disteib. Java, 
Borneo. 
2. Blumea balsamifeba, DC. Prod. Y. 466. A shrub, 6 to 12 feet 
high; young branches nearly as thick as a goose-quill, tomentose, 
striate. Leaves thickly membranous or sub-coriaceous, elliptic-lanceo- 
late, coarsely and unequally serrate dentate or sub-entire, acute or 
sub-acute, narrowed at the base ; upper surface dark olivaceous-green, 
minutely tomentose or strigose, the lower surface with dense silky 
cinereous-yellowish tomentum ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curved, 
ascending, faint on both surfaces, but especially on the lower ; length 
2 to 3 in. ; breadth -75 to l - 5 in. ; petioles -2 to -75 in. long, the longer ones 
often with lateral auricles ; in the lower part of the branches the leaves 
often much larger. Heads sub-cylindric, sessile, or on short pedicels, 
arranged in large, lax, and spreading or dense, often leafy, corymbose 
or panicled, axillary and terminal tawny-tomentose cymes. Involucral 
bracts linear, acuminate, densely tomentose ; hermaphrodite florets very 
numerous in the centre, narrowly tubular ; receptacle naked. Cypselas 
10-ribbed, silky ; pappus copious, red. Clarke Comp. Ind. 89 ; Kurz 
For. FI. Burm. II. 82 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 270 ; Prain Bengal 
Plants, 598. Gonyza balsamifera, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II. 1208 ; Wall. 
Cat. 2998; Boxb. FI. Ind. III. 427. G. vestita, Wall. Cat. 2998. C. 
appendiculata Blume Bijdr. 895 ( not of Lam.). 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3143 ; Ilervey. Penang : Walker 160 ; 
Scott ; Curtis 29. Pebak : Scortechini ; King’s Collector 6343 ; Wray 
1741. Singapobe: G. Thomson', Hullett 372; Bidley 2742. Johobe : 
King. — Disteib. British India, Malay Archipelago. 
Vab. angustifolia, King & Gamble. Leaves narrowly oblong, acute 
at both ends, less than -5 in. broad. 
Singapobe : Bidley 2742. 
3. Blumea glomebata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 15. An erect 
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