Vernonia. | xxvi. comPositz. (J. D. Hooker.) | 941 
on both surfaces, heads corymbose in a large panicle, invol. bracts oblong her- 
baceous obtuse or acute, achenes glandular, pappus white. 
Mots: hills on the Attran, Parish, 
A good deal resembling V. Lobbii, but the leaves are much more pubescent beneath, 
the heads form a large terminal branched panicle, nearly a foot long; the invol. 
bracts are herbaceous and very different in shape, and the achenes are not tomentose. 
43. V. scandens, DC. Prodr. v. 82; climbing, branches slender and 
inflorescence glabrous or pubescent, leaves petioled ovate elliptic or lanceolate 
acuminate quite entire glabrous or pubescent beneath, heads 5-10-flowered in 
long leafy terminal panicles all pedicelled, invol. bracts ovate or linear-lanceolate 
acute or obtuse, achenes compressed glabrous deeply 10-ribbed, pappus red 
outer bairs few short slender. Clarke Comp. Ind. 26; Kurz For. Fi. ii. 81. 
Conyza scandens, Wall. Cat. 3060. V. vagans, DC. Le: Clarke l. c. Gym- 
nanthemum scandens and vagans, Steetz in Peter's Mosamb. Bot. 338. 
Srxxrw Himaraya and the Kuasia Mrs.; ascending to 4000 ft. Assam, SILHET, 
and Birra. 
A rambling climber, branches woody. Leaves 24-4 by 1-2} in., rather thin; 
petiole slender. Heads ZA in. diam.; pedicels slender; invol. bracts very vari- 
able in breadth, puberulous, inner 3 in. long; corolla glabrous. Achenes 1-l in. 
long; pappus between 3-} in. loug.—I cannot distinguish between V. scandens and 
V. vagans, which in their extreme forms differ, the former in the broader blunter 
invol. bracts, and I think longer achenes, but I find achenes of } and ZS in. in the 
sume specimen. 
44. V. blanda, DC. Prodr. v. 32; a rambling shrub, slender branches 
and leaves glabrous, panicles puberulous, leaves petioled elliptic acuminate at 
both ends quite entire, heads 10-25-flowered in elongate branched terminal 
panicles, invol bracts linear-oblong acute puberulous, receptacle glabrous, 
achenes pubescent 10-ribbed, pappus red outer hairs few. Clarke Comp. Ind. 
25; Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 1877, ii. 202. excl. syn.; For. Fl. ii. 8l. V, 
blandula, Clai ke l. c. 26. Conyza blanda, Wall. Cat. 3033. 
ManTABAN and TENassERIM ; on the Saluen river, Wallich. Dron, Scott. 
Very similar to V. scandens, but with pubescent achenes, 
45. V. Andersoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 27; scandent, branches leaves 
beneath and inflorescence pubescent or tomentose, leaves petioled ovate acute or 
acuminate quite entire finely reticulated, heads 5-15-flowered in axillary and 
terminal loose panicles, invol. bracts small ovate obtuse, receptacle hairy, achenes 
deeply 10-ribbed flattened puberulous, pappus red outer hairs 0. V. Cumingiana, 
Benth. Fl. Hongk. 170 (not of Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 333). 
Uprer Assam; Naga hills, Masters, Birma, Griffith, Tenasserim, Helfer.— 
Distris, Hongkong. 
Very similar to large-leaved states of V. scandens with obtuse invol. bracts, but 
the leaves are thinly leathery, the nerves beautifully reticulated, the achenes puberu- 
lous, and the receptacle covered with deciduous fulvous hairs. Jnvol. bracts j in.. 
narrowly oblong, very obtuse, ne rly glabrous. Achenes (in Hongkong specimen) i 
in. long; pappus upwards of } in.—Bentham is mistaken in referring the Hongkong 
plant to his V. Cumingiana of the Philippines, which has a naked receptacle and 
far more numerous flowers in a head ; as is Kurz (Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 202) in re- 
ferring V. Andersoni to blanda. 
DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES, 
? V. (EvPATORIUM PECTINATUM, Wall. Cat. 3172.) from the Nilgherry Mts.; there 
is no specimen of this in the Wailichian Herbarium. 
V. (DkcaNEvRON LiLACINUM, Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 314); there is no specimen 
of this in Dalzell's Herbarium, and I fail to identify it by the description. 
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