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herb, about 18 to 24 in. high ; stem at the base nearly as thick as 
a goose-quill, sparsely sub-glandular-pubescent, the hairs spreading. 
Leaves membranous, olivaceous, sparsely strigose on both surfaces, the 
hairs on the upper surface with bulbous bases; the lower sessile, 
lyrately lobed, the lobes dentate, the apex acute ; the upper leaves 
much smaller, lanceolate, dentate. Heads from '2 to - 25 in. in diam., 
in small sessile clusters of 2 or 3, all in the axils of small leaf-like 
bracts along the long slender branches, forming a pseudo-spike. Invo- 
lucral bracts narrowly linear, pubescent, 1-nerved ; receptacle glabrous. 
Outer florets with very slender corollas. Cypselas faintly 8-10-ribbed, 
glabrous; pappus in a single row, white, shining. DC. Prod. V. 
443 ; Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 262. B. fasciculata, DC. l.e. 442 ; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 81. B. fistulosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
1877, II. 187. B. holosericea, racemosa, spinellosa, gracilis, purpurea, 
and leptoclada, DC. l.c. 442, 443. Conyza fistulosa, Boxb. Pl. Ind. III. 
429. Conyza racemosa, sericea, glomerata, gracilis , purpurea and 
holosericea, Wall. Cat. 3002, 3021, 3055, 3064, 3076, 3103. 
Penang : Deschamps. — Disteib. British India, Malay Archipelago, 
China. 
4. Blumea Wightiana, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14. An erect, 
little-branched herb, 1 to 3 feet high, covered everywhere with 
silky white, scanty or copious, soft, sub-adpressed hairs ; stem terete, 
about as thick as a goose-quill at the base, striate, brown, and nearly 
glabrous (from the fall of the hairs) when old. Leaves diminishing in 
size from below upwards, thickly membranous, obovate-oblong or 
elliptic-obovate, the apex acute or sub-acute, gradually narrowed from 
about the middle to the short petiole ; the edges with a few irregular 
coarse teeth, sometimes slightly lobed ; both surfaces olivaceous-brown 
when dry, and clothed, but especially the lower, with adpressed, short 
white pubescence ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, faint 
on both surfaces ; length 1-25 to 3 in. ; breadth -5 to P25 in. ; petioles 
from •! to -25 in. long or even more, sometimes aurieled about the 
middle. Heads paniculate, about -3 or -4 in. across, axillary, solitary or 
in pairs (reduced cymes), or 4 to 6 in very short rounded axillary cymes 
on peduncles of varying length, but always short, the upper few inches 
of the stem crowded by a dense mass of cymes. Involucral bracts in 
several rows, diminishing in size outwards, the inner linear, somewhat 
longer than the pappus, all pubescent and 1-nerved ; receptacle naked. 
Outer florets very numerous, their corollas very slender. Inner florets 
about 4, much wider than the outer. Cypselas small, puberulous ; 
pappus in a single row, white. DC. Prod. V. 435; Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 74 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, II. 156 (excl. syn. hymeno- 
