Vemom'a.] CoinpOSltcE. 7 



to base, acute, denticulate-serrate, glabrous or very slightly- 

 hairy, petiole obscure ; heads moderate-sized, on long woolly- 

 pubescent peduncles, in corymbs, involucre shallow, bracts 

 somewhat spreading and squarrose, narrowly oblong, ovate, 

 woolly-pubescent ; achene 4- or 5 -ribbed, glabrous, glandular, 

 pappus brownish-white, outer row of very short scales. 



Montane zone; rare. Adam's Peak (Gardner); Ambagamuwa 

 (Thwaites). Fl. March ; bright light violet. 

 Endemic. 



4. V. cinerea, Less, in Lm7icea, iv. 291 (1829). Blonara- 

 kudimbiya, S. Chitiviyarchenkalainir, T. 



Herm. Mus. 2, 31. Burm. Thes. 211. Fl. Zeyl. n. 419. Cotiyza 

 cinerea, L., Moon Cat. 58. Thw. Enum. 160. C. P. 1736. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 233. Burm. Thes. t. 96, f. i. 



Annual, stem |-2 ft., erect, stiff, cylindrical, striate, more 

 or less pubescent, slightly branched ; 1. distant, the lowest 

 2 in. but gradually smaller upwards, broadly oval to linear- 

 lanceolate, tapering to base, subobtuse, apiculate, coarsely and 

 shallovvly crenate-serrate, more or less hairy on both sides, 

 petiole \-^ in. ; heads small, on long stalks, in lax divaricate 

 terminal corymbs, inv.-bracts linear, mucronate, silky, fl. 

 20-25 ; achene not ribbed, hairy, pappus white, outer row 

 very short. 



A very common weed, abundant everywhere. Fl. all the year ; bright 

 pinkish-violet. 



Throughout the Tropics of the Old World. 



From its growth in all kinds of situations, this puts on very varying 

 appearances, but there are no marked separable varieties. V. albicans^ 

 DC., recorded for Ceylon by Clarke (Comp. Ind. 22), is referred to in 

 Fl. B. Ind., and specimens densely covered with grey tomentum are not 

 uncommon. 



5. V. setig-era, Am. Pug. 27 (1836). 



V. neilgherryensis., Thw. Enum. 160 (non DC). C. P. 20. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 235. 



An undershrub with numerous erect much-branched stems, 

 3-4 ft. high, terete, striate, coarsely hairy; 1, i|-3 in., ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, tapering to base, acuminate, shallowly 

 but sharply crenate-serrate, roughly hairy on both sides, 

 petiole \ in., hispid ; heads small, very numerous, shortly 

 stalked, crowded in paniculate cymes, inv.-bracts few, lax, 

 linear, thin and chaffy, with a soft long awn at apex, ciliate, 

 sparingly hairy, fl. few (about 10), scarcely exceeding bracts; 

 achenes 4-5-ribbed, densely glandular, pappus pale yellowish- 

 white, outer row extremely short, spreading. 



Upper montane zone ; rather common. Adam's Peak ; Nuwara 

 Eliya, &c., abundant. Fl. Feb., March; pale violet. 



Endemic. 



