Vernonia.) LXXVIII. COMPOSITA. (J. D. Hooker.) 237 
Fl. Ind. iii. 405. Ascaricida indica, Cass in Dict. Sc. Nat. iii. Suppl. 388.—Burm. 
Thes. 210 t. 95. Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. t. 24. 
Throughout Innia ; from Kashmir to Ceylon (nowhere ? indigenous) and Malacca, 
ascending to 5500 ft. in the Himalaya and Khasia Mts. —Drsrgms. Affghanistan. 
A tall robust leafy annual. Leaves 3-8 in. rather membranous. Heads 4-3 in. 
diam., about 40-fld. Achenes } in., 10-ribbed, pubescent ; outer pappus rather longer, 
shining, reddish, flattened, deciduous; inner very short, rigid, paleaceous, 
*** Outer invol. bracts much shorter than the inner. 
T Heads very small. Leaves not thickly clothed beneath with white woolly 
tomentum. 
98. V. cinerascens, Schultz-Bip. in Schweinf. Ethiop. 162; low, 
shrubby, much branched, clothed with ashy pubescence, leaves elongate spathu- 
late tip rounded sessile with a very narrow base punctate, heads few small 
solitary on the divaricating branches of terminal cymes, invol. bracts linear 
subacute, achenes silky, pappus white. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 275. V. 
spathulata, Hochst. in Herb. Schweinf. n. 2133. 
The PvxzaB; at Peshawar, Vicary, Talbot. Sart RaxaE, Fleming. WUZURISTAN, 
Stewart. Scinp, at Kurrache, Stocks.—DisTRiB. Beluchistan, Abyssinia. 
Branches white, quite terete. Leaves 4-14 in., green when dry, both surfaces 
alike. Heads } in. diam.; peduncles with rarely minute bracts; invol. bracts linear, 
i in.; corolla glabrous. Achenes de in., densely silky; pappus A in.; hairs all persis- 
tent, outer many short rigid. —The achene is incorrectly described in the Flor. Trop. 
Africa. 
29. V. eleagnifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 22; climbing, branches petioles 
and inflorescence hoary, leaves petioled oblong linear-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate 
uite entire obtuse or acute glabrous and reticulate above loosely silky beneath, 
heads 3—5-flowered in narrow terminal short loose panicles all pedicelled, invol. 
bracts few small ovate obtuse, achenes compressed 5-8-ribbed glabrous, pappus 
white outer hairs few. Clarke Comp. Ind. 24; Kurz For. DL IL, 80. V.ellip- 
tica, DC. in Wight Contrib. 5; Prodr. v. 22. Conyza eleagnifolia, Wall. Cat. 
3041. 
Prov; Maclelland. Texasserim, Wallich, Griffith, &c.—DisrRIB. Siam. 
Branches long, woody, finely grooved. Leaves 1-3 by 4-1 in., pale and almost 
silky beneath ; petiole slender. Heads } in. diam., about 3 at the end of the rigid 
divaricating branches of the panicle; invol.-bracts j5 in.; corolla giabrous. <Achenes 
iy in.; pappus  in., persistent. 
30. V. nemoralis, Tkw. Enum. 160; herbaceous, branches and heads 
puberulous, leaves petioled elliptic- or linear-lanceolate acuminate distantly 
serrate glabrous on both surfaces nerves obscure, invol. bracts linear-oblong 
obtuse, achenes hairy, pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 11. 
Cryton; Saffragam, Galagama, Ee, Walker, &c. 
Apparently a slender herb. Leaves 2-4 by }-1 in., young slightly pubescent 
beneath. Heads sometimes corymbose, 1—1 in. diam. ; outermost invol. bracts short, 
obtuse. Corolla glabrous. Achenes obscurely 10-ribbed ; pappus j in., outer bristles 
very short. 
tt Heads large or small. Leaves thickly clothed beneath with dense white or 
buff woolly tomentum. Shrubs. 
31. V. salvicefolia, Wight Ic. t. 1079; branches woody, inflorescence 
and leaves beneath clothed densely with white wool, leaves crowded at the ends 
of the branches sessile linear-lanceolate obtuse crenulate rugulose above, heads 
10-14-flowered in open corymbs, invol. bracts short oblong acute, achenes com- 
