ASTERACE^. 



Nat. sj/st. ed. 2. p. 253. 



VERNONIA. 



Head few or many-flowered, equal flowered. Involucre im- 

 bricated, shorter than the florets, with the inner scales longest. 

 Receptacle naked, or rarely honey-combed and fringed. Co- 

 rolla regular, 5-cleft, with the lobes in the entire part nearly 

 equal. Filaments smooth. Achaenium with a cartilaginous 

 callus at the base, and a large epigynous disk. Pappus usually 

 in 2 rows, of which the inner is setiform and much longer than 

 the outer which is paleaceous ; rarely in 2 equal rows. DC. 



901. V. anthelmintica Willd. iii. 1634. DC. prodr. v. 61.— 

 Conyza anthelmintica Linn. sp. pi. 1207. Serratula anthelmin- 

 tica Roxb. fi. ind. iii. 405. Ascaricida indica Cass. diet. iii. 

 suppl. p. 38. (Burm. zeyl. t. 95. Rheede ii. t. 24.) — Common 

 among rubbish, and in dry uncultivated ground in the East 

 Indies. 



Stem erect, branched, round, clouded with elevated purple spots, 

 slightly downy, 2-3 feet high. Leaves ovate or oval-oblong, acuminate 

 at each end, coarsely serrated, downy. Heads corymbose, each con- 

 taining 40-45 florets. Scales of involucre lanceolate-linear, acute ; the 

 outer somewhat spreading, leafy, and obovate-linear. Achasnia oblong, 

 taper, hispid. Outer row of pappus very short and paleaceous. — The 

 fruit is accounted in India a very powerful anthelmintic. 



ELEPHANTOPUS. 



Heads containing 3-4-5 florets, equal-flowered, closely col- 

 lected into a cluster surrounded by leaves. Involucre com- 

 pressed, in 2 rows ; leaflets dry, oblong, alternately flat and 

 folded, the inner usually 3-nerved. Receptacle naked. Corolla 

 palmate, with a 5-cleft limb, which has acuminate segments, and 

 1 recess deeper than the others. Filaments smooth ; branches 

 of style half-subulate. Achaenium rather compressed, many 

 ribbed, oblong, hairy. Pappus in 1 row, consisting of several 

 straight paleas, dilated at the base, but otherwise very narrow, 

 acuminate, equal, and serrated. DC. 



902. E. scaber Linn. sp. pi. 1313. Roxb. fi. ind. iii. 445. 

 DC. prodr. v. 86. — (Dill. elth. 126. 1. 106. Breyn.ic.m. t.34.) 

 — Common in almost all parts of India, in a dry elevated soil. 



Root fibrous, scarcely more than biennial. Stem hairy, dichoto- 

 mously branched, round, about a foot high. Leaves chiefly radical, 

 scabrous, crenated, cuneate, very much narrowed at the base ; those of 

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