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phylla) ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 261. B. trichophora, parvifolia, 
and phyllostachya, DO. l.c. 436, 437, 438. Gonyza lactuccefolia, 
paniculata, hifoliata, and Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 3088 (in part), 3090a, 
3091, 3093. Erigeron molle, Don Prod. 172. 
Penang and Singapobe : By roadsides, not common. — Disteib. 
British India and Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, tropical Australia and 
Africa. 
5. Blumea laceba, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14. An erect herb, 
2 to 3 feet high ; stems at the base nearly as thick as a goose- 
quill, adpressed-pubescent. Leaves thickly membranous, oblanceolate 
obtuse or sub-acute, much narrowed to the petiole, the edges unequally 
and remotely dentate ; both surfaces olivaceous when dry, the lower 
somewhat the paler and with thin, pale pubescence ; the upper glabrous, 
sub-scabrid ; length 1-5 to 2 in. ; breadth -5 to 1 in. ; petiole ‘3 to '5 in. 
long. Heads -3 in. across, sub-sessile or sessile, in small rounded crowded 
cymes, on slender ebracteate axillary peduncles, 1 to 2-5 in. long, sub- 
tended by small leaf-like bracts, and occupying the upper half of the 
stem. Involucral bracts linear-oblong, tomentose, about as long as the 
pappus ; receptacle naked. Heads -4 in. across, sessile or nearly so, in 
a lax, shortly-branched, leafy, cymose, pubescent panicle, 12 to 18 in. 
long. Involucral bracts nearly uniform, linear, acuminate, 1-nerved, 
puberulous, as long as the pappus. Receptacle slightly convex, naked. 
Cypselas narrowly oblong, glabrous, not ribbed ; pappus in a single 
row, white. DC. Prod. V. 436 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 76 ; Hook. fil. 
FI. Br. Ind. III. 263. B. Musra, DC. l.c. 435 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. IV. 
t. 23. B. villosu, Schultz-Bip. in PI. Hohenack. n. 2a. Gonyza lacera, 
Eoxb. FI. Ind. III. 428 ; Wall. Cat. 3082. C. thyrsiflora, villosa, and 
Musra, Ham. ; Wall. Cat. sub 3082, 3083, 3095. C. lactucifolia, DC. l.c. 
435; Wall. Cat. 3088 (in part) ; Burm. FI. Ind. 180, t. 59, f. 1. 
Pebak : Scortecliini 141, 1430. Singapobe: Cantley; Ilullett 227. 
— Disteib. British India, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, China, tropical 
Africa. 
6. Blumea membbanacea, DC. Prod. V. 440. A rigid erect herb, 
1 to 2 feet high ; stem at the base half as thick as a goose-quill, 
minutely pubescent from base to apex, terete, striate. Leaves thinly 
membranous, oblanceolate, much tapered to the base, sub-sessile, the 
apex acute, the edges coarsely and often irregularly dentate, sometimes 
lobulate ; both surfaces pale olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower 
paler, sparsely strigose ; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, spreading, faint on 
both surfaces; length 2 to 3'5 in. ; breadth -8 to 1'5 in. ; the leaves of 
the upper part of the stem smaller and bract-like. Heads -25 in. in 
diam., sessile or sub-sessile, in spikes several inches long, from the 
