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liypogeal rootstock, and its column is not produced into a foot, 
but the description of that species correctly states that its 
column is produced into a very short foot and that it has a 
pseudo-bulb. The key would appear to require re-arranging 
as follows : — 
Column not produced into a foot — 
sep. linear oblong, acute or obtuse 
sep. lanceolate, acuminate 
Column produced into a foot — 
Pseudo -bulb epigeal 
Rootstock tuberous, hypogeal — 
L. and fl. produced together 
L. produced after flowers 
E. virens 
E. graminea 
E. macrostachya 
E. nuda 
E. sanguinea 
Alternatively the primary division may be made to depend 
on the presence of an epigeal pseudo -bulb in the first three 
species. 
The difference (in the key) between E. nuda and E. sanguinea 
is not constant ; the flowers of E. nuda may appear before or 
at the same time as the leaves. The statement that the sepals 
of E. nuda are connivent at the base ” should be ‘‘ at the 
apex,” but this character is not universal. — T. P. 
Blumea amplectens DC. — The C. P. specimens of this 
species appear to have been considerably mixed. In Herb. 
Peradeniya, C. P. 1730 is B. amplectens, Sind Erigeron astéroïdes 
Roxb., C. P. 1732 (2 sheets) is Blumea hifoliata, and C. P. 3523 
(marked in pencil, also marked 1730) is B. amplectens and 
Eriger on aster oides. Clarke, Compositæ Indie æ, states that 
C. P. 1732 is Blumea amplectens, and C. P. 3523 is B. hifoliata. 
Flora of British India gives C.P. 1730 (in part) as B. amplectens 
and C. P. 3523 as B. hifoliata. Trimen’s Flora of Ceylon gives 
C. P. 1730 and 1732 as B. amplectens and states that C. P. 3523 
is not in Herb. Peradeniya. In Trimen’s Flora the achene of 
B. amplectens is said to be very small, oblong, compressed, 
three -ribbed ; this description is evidently taken from C. P. 
1730 and refers to E. aster oides ; the fruit of B. amplectens 
is purple-brown, oblong, not ridged, covered with white 
