238 LXXVIII. COMFOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Vernonia. 
pressed obscurely 3-4-angled glabrous, pappus pale reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 
20. V. Arnottiana, Thoms. mss. ev Clarke. 
TRAVANCORE, at Courtallam, Wight. 
Branches very thick. Leaves 4-6 by 1-2 in., thick. above almost tubercled by the 
short elose-set high wrinkles between the numerous nerves. Heads 4 in. diam., sub- 
sessile; peduncles with few small linear axillary bracts ; invol. bracts 2 in.; corolla 
glabrous. Achenes } in.; pappus as long; outer hairs very numerous, short, flat, 
persistent, inner caducous. 
32. V. Wightiana, Arn. Pugill. 27 ; shrubby, branches leaves beneath 
and corymbs clothed with dense buff wool, leaves shortly petioled elliptic or 
elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or acute obscurely toothed woolly but finally glabrate 
above, heads 30-40-flowered in terminal open corymbs, invol. bracts short ob- 
long acute, achenes 4—5-ribbed glabrous, pappus dirty white. DC. Prodr. vii. 
263; Thwaites Enum. 160, excl. var. 8; Clarke Comp. Ind. 19. 
CxvLON; central province, alt. 5-8000 ft., Macrae, &c. 
Branches terete, stout or slender, leafy, Leaves 2-5 by 1-14 in. coriaceous ; 
petiole sometime ł in. Heads i-i in. diam. ; peduncles stout, with a few narrow 
bracts ; invol. bracts } in., woolly; corolla laxly hairy. Achenes iz in.; pappus 2 in,, 
outer hairs very short flattened. 
33, V. indica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 10; branches leaves beneath and 
inflorescence clothed with dense soft whitish tomentum, leaves subsessile 
elliptic or almost orbicular acute serrate-toothed coriaceous, heads numerous in 
broad terminal corymbs 6-10-flowered, invol. scales broad oblong mucronate, 
achenes glabrous, pappus yellowish. Conyza indica, Wall. Cat 3042. De- 
caneuron dendigulense, DC. in Wight Contrib. 7; Prodr. v. 67. Lysistemma 
dendigulense, Steetz in Peters Mosamb. Bot. 341. 
WESTERN PENINSUIA ; on the Ghats, from the Concan to Tiavancore. 
An undershrub, 2-3 ft., erect; branches terete. Leaves 3-6 by 11-5 in., rigid, 
scaberulous above; nerves many, much raised beneath, petiole rarely 1 in. Heads 1 
in. diam., erowded at the end of the stout branches; inner invol. braets A in., tomen- 
tose, closely imbricate, outermost minute ovate; corolla glabrous. Achenes Ae in.; 
pappus } in. ; outer hairs 0. 
84. V. zeylanica, Less in Linnea, 1829, 344; branches leaves beneath 
and corymbs ashy tomentose or woolly, leaves shortly petioled ovate with a lyrate 
usually auricled base acute coarsely crenate, heads 4-8-flowered small fascicled 
in large terminal corymbs, invol. bracts very short ovate acute, achenes 5-ribbed 
puberulous, pappus pale reddish. DC. in Wight Contrib. 5 ; Prodr. v. 26; Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 20. Eupatorium zeylanicum, Linn.— Cacalia, Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 52 
t. 21. 
Cryton ; hilly parts of the island ascending to 3000 ft. 
Branches slender, grooved and ribbed. Leaves 1-2} by -1 in., coriaceous, puberu- 
lous above, densely woolly and reticulate beneath, basal auricles horizontal. Heads H 
in. diam.; peduncles with few small axillary bracts ; invol. bracts few, woolly, e in. 
long; corolla glabrous. Achenes Ae in. long; pappus 2 in.; outer hairs few, very 
short. 
ttt Heads usually large. Leaves not clothed with white wool beneath. 
95. V. extensa, DC. Prodr. v. 93; branches and inflorescence pubescent, 
leaves petioled lanceolate acuminate sharply serrate glabrous or scaberulous 
above pubescent or glabrate beneath, heads in loose terminal corymbs 8-10- 
flowered, invol. braets few linear-oblong concave obtuse coriaceous, outermost 
-yery short obtuse, achenes pubescent, pappus reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 15. 
