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axils of small leaf-like bracts, arranged in a narrow pseudo-panicle 
occupying the upper half of the stem. Involucral bracts linear, acumi- 
nate, pubescent, 1-nerved, as long as the inner pappus. Corollas very 
narrow ; receptacle naked. Cypselas small, glabrous ; pappus white, in 
two rows, the outer very short. Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 265. L. 
hymenophylla, DC. l.e. 440. Conyza mcmbranacea and hymenophylla. 
Wall. Cat. 3019, 3038. C. virens, Wall. Cat. 3037d. C. cliffusa, Boxb. 
PL Ind. III. 429. 
Penang : Curtis 2759; Deschamps. — Distrib. British India, Malay 
Archipelago. 
9. Laggeka, Schultz. -Bip. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, often rigid and decur- 
rent. Heads panicled or axillary, heterogamous, disciform. Outer 
flowers $ , in several rows, fertile, filiform, the mouth minutely toothed. 
Disk-floivcrs $ , in several rows, fertile, tubular, 5-fid. Involucre cam- 
panulate ; bracts many-rowed, narrow, often rigid, the outer shorter ; 
receptacle flat, naked. Anthers 2-lobed or sagittate at the base , the 
auricles obtuse or acute, often unequal, not tailed or connate with the 
adjoining anthers. Style-arms of the hermaphrodite flowers and the 
pappus as in Blumea. — Distrib. 9 or 10 species, in tropical Africa 
and British India. 
Laggera flava, Benth. in Gen. PI. II. 290. A glabrous or 
puberulous herb, 6 to 30 in. high; stems striate, simple or corymbosely 
branched. Leaves membranous, shining, glabrous ; the radical some- 
times on short petioles ; the cauline sessile ; the lower cauline oblong, 
acute, cordate and sub-amplexicaul at the base ; the upper cauline 
smaller and narrower than the lower, lanceolate ; all sharply and un- 
equally toothed ; main-nerves about 8 pairs, distinct, like the wide 
reticulations. Heads few, ’25 in. in diam., on slender peduncles; 
receptacle glabrous ; corollas yellow ; anthers sagittate. Cypselas 
minute, glabrous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 90; Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. 
III. 270. Blumea flava, DC. Prod. V. 439. Erigeron falcatum, 
Don Prod. 172 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1877, II. 191 {excl- 
syn.). Conyza fasciculata, Wall. Cat. 3017. 
Penang : Wallich. — Distrib. British India. 
This has not been collected within our area since Wallich’s time. 
10. Pluchea, Cass. 
Shrubs or herbs, tomentose or glutinous. Leaves alternate, dentate 
or rarely entire, sometimes pinnatifid. Heads usually small, in ter- 
minal corymbose cymes, or large and sub-solitary, heterogamous, disci- 
