Lampracheniwm.] Leet, cowrosm. (J. D. Hooker.) 229 
flat, naked.  Corollas all tubular, equal, slender; lobes 5, narrow. -Anthers 
obtusely auricled. Style-arms subulate. -Achenes obovoid, turgid, a little com- 
pressed, smooth, shining; pappus hairs few, short, fugacious, red. 
1. L. microcephalum, Benth. in Gen. Plant. ii, 225. Decaneuron 
microcephalum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 231; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. FI 122 ; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 5. 
The Concan ; at Parwar Ghat, Bombay, Gibson, Dalzell. 
Habit, pubescence and foliage of Centratherum tenue. Stem 1-2 ft., simple or 
branched from the base, glabrous hairy or glandular. Leaves petioled, 2-4 in., hairy 
above, white-tomentose beneath. Heads 1-i in. diam.; peduncles slender, hispid or 
glabrate; invol. bracts acute, ciliate, none leafy, erect or recurved, <Achenes d in.; 
pappus reddish, equalling the corolla-tube. 
4, ADENOON, Dalz. 
An erect rigid herb. eaves alternate, sessile. Heads corymbosely panicled, 
homogamous. Znvolucre campanulate; bracts many-seriate, coriaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate, aristate, outer gradually shorter. Receptacle flat, minutely fimbriate. 
Corollas all tubular, equal, slender ; limb narrow, 5-cleft. Anther-bases sagittate. 
Style-arms subulate, hairy. -Achenes obovoid, obtuse, subcompressed, 10-ribbed ; 
pappus 0. 
l. A. indicum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 944; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. 191; Steetz. in Peters Mosamb. Bot. 352; Clarke Comp. Ind. 5. Ethulia sp. 
v. Gen. nov. Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 101. 
The Concan; Parwar Ghat, Bombay, Ritchie, Law, Se, ` Belgaum, Law. 
A rather stout erect hairy or hispid annual, 2-3 ft.; stem angled and grooved, 
branched above. Leaves shortly petioled, 1—4 in., broadly ovate obovate or almost 
orbicular, coarsely unequally toothed, hairy on both surfaces. Heads $ in. diam., 
sessile and peduncled ; peduncles stout or slender, hispid or tomentose; bracts at the 
forks subulate; corolla A in.; limb as long as the tube. Achenes j; in., glandular ; 
ribs very stout. 
5. VERNONIA, Schreb. 
Herbs, shrubs, climbers or small trees. Leaves alternate. Heads terminal 
or axillary, solitary cymose or panicled, homogamous. ` Znvolucre ovoid globose 
or hemispheric, equalling or shorter than the flowers; bracts in many series, 
inner longest. Receptacle naked or pitted, sometimes shortly hairy. Corollas 
all equal, tubular, slender; lobes 5, narrow. Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms 
subulate. Achenes striate ribbed or angled, rarely terete; pappus of many hairs, 
often girt with a row of outer short hairs or flattened bristles.—DzsrRIs. About 
380 species, chiefly tropical, and mostly American. 
I have found it impossible to elassify the Indian Vernonias under the commonly 
recognised sections of the genus as defined in the ** Genera Plantarum," and have had 
recourse to what appear to me to be more natural divisional eharacters, but they are 
extremely vague. The species are most difficult to limit and define, the involucral 
bracts being especially variable. 
A. Invol. bracts all or the outermost subulate or lanceolate, often aristate 
(inner linear and obtuse in V. Helferi and peguensis, outer ovate acute). 
* Heads 3-1 in. diam., rarely less, few, in open terminal or lateral corymbs 
or panicles, or solitary and axillary. 
1. V. teres, Wall. Cat. 2926; rigid, scabrid, leaves hard subsessile obovate 
or obovate- or elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acute subserrate heads 30-50- 
