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236 LXXVIII COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Vernonia. 
or obscurely grooved, leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate, heads small 20- 
flowered in lax open ebracteate corymbs, invol. bracts linear-oblong obtuse or 
mucronate pubescent, achenes 5-angled almost glabrous, pappus white. DC. 
Prodr. vii. 263; Clarke Comp. Ind. 19. V. conyzoides, Thwaites Enum. 160, 
not of DC. 
CEYLoN; Central Province, alt. 14000 ft., Walker, Ze, 
Very similar in habit to V. setigera, but only hoary, with looser corymbs, longer 
peduncles, smaller heads, with much shorter more obtuse invol. bracts and whiter 
pappus. 
24. V. Candolleana, Wt. § Arn. in Wight Cat. 1509; branches terete 
villous, leaves subsessile elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute serrate, heads 15- 
flowered few small in a spreading villous corymb, invol. bracts few oblong pun- 
gent, achenes 4-angled glabrous, pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 19. V. 
dindigulensis, DC. Prodr. vii. 263. V. conyzoides, Wt. Ic. t. 829, and vol. iii. 
part iv. p. 16 (errata), not of DC. 
NiramknRY and PurxEY Mrs., Wight. 
Apparently a low herb or shrub. Leaves 2-3 by 4-1 in., puberulous above, pubes- 
cent beneath. Heads } in. diam. ; peduncles with a few setaceous bracts; invol. bracts 
puberulous, purple-tipped, outermost filiform; corolla glabrous. Achenes js in; 
pappus } in., outer hairs subpersistent.—Collected by Wight alone, and the specimens 
are very poor, and, I suspect, all from the Pulneys, or other collectors would have 
found it in the Nilgherries, 
25. V. scariosa, Arn. Pugill. 28; hispidly ones, leaves petioled 
elliptic acute serrate, heads 12-14-flowered small sessile terminal fascicled, invol. 
bracts linear-oblong awned glabrate outermost ovate acuminate, achenes glabrous, 
pappus reddish. Thwaites Enum. 161. Decaneuron ? scariosum, DC. Prodr. 
vii. 264. Centratherum scariosum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 4. 
Cryton ; Central Province, alt. 4~7000 ft., Walker, &e. 
Branches grooved and ribbed, clothed with spreading and curled hairs. Leaves 1-5 
by 3-2} in., seabrid above, beneath hairy like the branches, Heads narrow, ł and 4 
in. diam. ; outer invol. bracts }-$; corolla glabrous, Achenes A in. ; pappus } in., 
outer hairs few, short. —Thwaites' var. B crassa is only a more luxuriant state, 
B. Invol. bracts all obtuse or apiculate, usually linear or oblong, rarely ovate 
and acute. 
* Outer invol. bracts very large, broad, concealing the inner. 
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26. V. calycina, Wall. in DC. Prodr. v. 60; Cat. 2924; nearly glabrous, 
upper branches involucre and upper leaves beneath hoary-pubescent, leaves sub- 
sessile elliptic quite entire obtuse, heads subcorymbose, outer invol. bracts very 
large green elliptic or oblong obtuse inner linear acute, 
Birma; Prome, Wallich. 
Herbaceous, erect, black when dry. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2} in., upper subobovate, 
rather unequal-sided, glabrous above, puberulous beneath. eads 1 1n. diam., shortly 
peduneled ; corollas 40-50, puberulous. Achencs stellately pubescent and glandular ; 
pappus 3 in. long ; hairs reddish, shining; outer few, half as long as the inner. 
** Outer invol. bracts longer than the inner, linear, with leafy tips; annual. 
27. V. anthelmintica, Wilid.; DC. Prodr. v. 61; tall, branched, 
glandular-pubescent, leaves petioled lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate coarsely 
serrate, heads subcorymbose, invol. bracts linear with broad purplish tips. 
Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 217; Wall. Cat. 2920; Wight Contrib, 7; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 313; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 202; Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 10. Conyza anthelmintica, Linn. Serratula anthelmintica, Roxb, 
