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Galium boreale, Linn.?; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 205.—Shan hills 
at 4000 feet. 
Specimen in very young flower. 
G. boreale is widely spread in north temperate regions. 
CoMPOSITA. 
Vernonia divergens, Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxi. 1853, 
p. 172, reprint p. 48, et “errata” ad calcem ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 
p. 234.—Shan hills at 3000 feet. 
Central and Eastern India, Burma, and Tenasserim. 
Vernonia Clivorum, Hance; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 282.—Shan 
hills terai at 2000 feet. 
Pegu, Martaban, Burma, and South-eastern China. 
Vernonia ($ Strobocalyx) Aplinii, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Arbor mediocris, ramulis floriferis robustis teretibus molliter 
albo-tomentosis. Folia ampla, distincte petiolata, coriacea, 
obovata vel lanceolato-oblonga, 8-12 poll. longa, apice rotun- 
data, obtusa vel subacuta, basi cuneata, supra glabra, subtus 
cinereo- vel albido-tomentosa, venis primariis lateralibus utrinque 
circiter 12-15 conspicuis. Capitula sæpissime 8-flora, 5-6 lineas 
longa, brevissime pedunculata vel subsessilia, dense cymoso- 
paniculata; panicula terminalis, usque ad 12 poll. lata et 18 poll. 
longa, ramulis crassis dense albo-tomentosis ; involucri bracteæ 
5-6-seriatæ, crasse, late, dense sericeo-appresse hirsute, exteriores 
gradatim breviores, obtuse vel intime subacute ; receptaculum 
leviter foveolatum ; corolla pappum vix equans. Achenia, imma- 
tura tantum visa, cuneiformia, compressa, appresse hirsuta; 
pappus albus, scabridus cum seriei extima brevissima. 
Shan hills at 1700 to 5000 feet; originally collected by Mr. T. 
H. Aplin, of the Forest Department of Burma, after whom it is 
named. 
Nearest to V. talawmefolia, Hook. f. & Thoms., and very 
similar to it in the leaves, which, however, are softly tomentose 
beneath. The inflorescence is much denser in the present species ; 
the pappus is white instead of red and the achenes densely 
hairy. 
A common tree, attaining a height of thirty feet, inhabiting 
the higher parts of the terai forest forming the western boundary 
of the Shan States. 
