71. COMPOSITE : YEBNONIACE.S:. 401 



3. Vernonia chinensis, Less, in Linncea, vi. pp. 105 et 674 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 169 ; Henriq. in Bol. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 147 

 Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 235. 



Conyza chinensis, Lam. Encycl. ii. p. 83, non Linn. 



Centratherum chinense, Less, in IAnncea, iv. p. 320. 



Cyanopis pubescens, DC. Prodr. v. p. 69 ; Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. 

 Bot. iv. p. 232. 



Cyanopis villosa, DC. Prodr. v. p. 69. 



Cyanthillium pubescens, Blume, Bijdr. p. 890. 



Cyantbillium villosum, Blume, Bijdr. p. 889. 



Conyza patula, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, iii. p. 184 ; Willd. Sp. Pi. iii. 

 p. 1919; Mill. Fig. PI. ii. p. 165, t. 247- 



Isonema ovata, Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. xxiv. p. 25. 



Formosa.: Tamsui (Oldham, 235!); Kwangtung : Lofaushan 

 (Fordl); Hongkong (Champion I Wright I); Hainan: Hoihow 

 (Hancock !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Malay peninsula and archipelago to the Philippines. 



4. Vernonia cinerea, Less, in Linncea, iv. p. 291, et vi. p. 673 ; 

 DC. Prodr. v. p. 24 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 169 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iii. p. 233 ; Henriq. in Bol. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 147. 



South and Centbal China : apparently common (Millett ! 

 Hinds ! Gaudichaud\ Seemannl Faberl). Mus. Brit.; Herb. 

 Kew. 



Tropical Asia, Africa and Australia. 



5. Vernonia Clivorom, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1869, p. 164; 

 Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 232. 



Vernonia Kingii, Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 12. 



Kwangtung : banks of the East river (Sampson, hb. Hance, 

 14734 !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 

 Pegu, Martaban, and Birma. 



6. Vernonia (§ Strobocalyx) esculenta, Hemsl., n. sp. 

 Frutex ? ramulis ultimis floriferis teretibus puberulis. Folia 



(4 superiora tantum visa) petiolata, tenuiuscula, anguste lanceo- 

 lata, 4-5 poll, longa, acuta, integra, supra scabriuscula, subtus 

 pallidiora, praecipue in venis puberula, minute reticulata. Capi- 

 tula 5-6-flora, breviter pedunculata, in corymbos terminales pianos 

 saltern 8 poll, latos disposita ; involucri bractese 3-4-seriatae, sub- 

 rotundatse, vel interiores oblongse, obtusissimse,furfurascentes; re- 

 ceptaculum glabrum. Achcenia pallida, appresse hirsuta, bracteas 



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