230 LXXVIII. coMPOsITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Vernonia. 
flowered large solitary and axillary or few and terminal subsessile, invol. bracts 
very d long subulate-lanceolate subsquarrose, achenes silky, pappus yellowish 
or reddish. DC. Prodr. v.15; Clarke Comp. Ind. 16. V. riparia, Wall. Cat. 
2925. V. rigiophylla, DC. l. c. 15. V. squarrosa, Less. in Linnea, 1831, 627. 
Eupatorium rigidum, Wall, Cat. 2925. Acilepis squarrosa, Don Prodr. 169, 
TRorrcarn, HIMALAYA, from Kumaon, alt. 5000 ft., to Sikkim. BEHAR, CENTRAL 
Invi, Peou and Birma, in dry forests. 
Stem simple, terete, erect, leafy, pubescent or tomentose with brown hairs. Leaves 
2-6 by 1-2 in., base acute rounded or cordate, usually seabrid on both surfaces, re- 
ticulate beneath. Heads 3-1 in. diam.; inner invol. bracts nearly $ in., sparsely 
woolly, outer small, often squarrose; corolla glabrous. Achenes  in.; pappus 4 in, 
outer hairs few, short, caducous. 
2. V. subsessilis, DC. Prodr. v. 62; shrubby, branches nerves beneath 
and corymbs pubescent or tomentose, leaves large sessile oblanceolate or obovate 
acute or acuminate toothed serrate or sinuate-crenate glabrous above, heads 
many % in. diam. 20-40-tlowered corymbose or panicled, invol. bracts very many 
elongate-subulate or acicular strict, achenes silky, pappus reddish. 
mat, Wallich. Kuasia Mrs., Assam and Brema, Griffith, &e. 
Stout, shrubby. Leaves 4-12 by 1-4 in., glabrous above. Heads 40-50-flowered, 
ł in. diam., branches of corymb sometimes woolly, bracts at the forks slender. Znvol. 
obconic; bracts spreading from the base, outer subulate, very narrow, rigid, pubescent 
sometimes recurved; corolla glabrous. Achenes l in., striate ; pappus nearly j in., 
persistent, outer very short, unequal.—There are three forms of this, 
Var. 1. subsessilis proper; leaves narrowly lanceolate sharply irregularly toothed 
or serrate acuminate, heads corymbose, peduncle naked or with solitary subulate bracts, 
Conyza subsessilis, Wall. Cat. 300.—Khasia Mts., alt. 500-2000 ft. 
Var. 2. bracteolata; more shrubby, leaves obovate-lanceolate acuminate obscurely 
sinuate-toothed, heads corymbose, peduncles with often many subulate bracts. V. 
bracteolata, DC. Prodr. v. 62. Conyza bracteolata, Wall. Cat. 3036.—N ipal, Khasia 
Mts., Assam and Birma. 
Van. 3. macrophylla; shrubby, leaves 10-12 by 3-3} in. obovate acute coarsely 
erenate-toothed, heads panicled, peduncles with filiform bracts,—East Nipal, dry rocks 
on the Tambur river, J. D. H. 
9. V. malabarica, Hook. f.; branches and leaves beneath softly tomen- 
tose, leaves shortly petioled elliptic-lanceolate serrulate acuminate puberulous 
above, heads few 4 in. diam. terminal corymbose, invol. bracts few  suberect 
linear-subulate pubescent, achenes obtusely 5-angled glabrate equalling the 
invol. bracts, pappus yellowish. 
NiraugRRY Mrs.; Sisparah Ghat, Beddome. 
Apparently shrubby; branches strict, pubescence of very soft, pale brown, close-set 
hairs. Leaves 24-3 by 3-1 in., rather thin. Heads all peduneled ; corolla-lobes 
glandular-pubescent. Achenes A in.; pappus } in., outer very distinct, short, palea- 
ceous. 
4. V. Gardneri, Thw. Enum. 160, evel. var. B; herbaceous, branches 
leaves beneath and inflorescence puberulous, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate 
finely acuminate acutely serrate, nerves not prominent above, invol. bracts nar- 
row subulate finely acuminate, achenes puberulous, pappus pale reddish. Clarke 
Comp. Ind. ll. 
Cayton, Central Province; Adam's Peak, Walker ; Ambagamowa, Thwaites. 
Stem and branches slender. Leaves usually 4-6 by 4-% in., rarely 5-6 by 2-2}, 
rather membranous, teeth gland-tipped. Heads -3 in.; peduncles slender; outer- 
most invol. bracts somewhat spreading; corolla glabrous. Pappus į in., outer very 
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