lO Conipositce. [Vemonia. 



base, subacute or obtuse or rounded and often apiculate at 

 apex, nearly entire or crenate or denticulate, cottony or (when 

 mature) nearly glabrous above, densely felted beneath with 

 buff or white or greyish-orange tomentum, venation reticulate, 

 prominent, petiole h--^ in., tomentose; heads moderate-sized, 

 I in. diam., involucre cup-shaped, bracts oblong, shortly 

 mucronate, tomentose, outermost short, narrower, fl. nu- 

 merous, spreading; achene compressed 3-angled, glabrous, 

 glandular, pappus yellowish-white, outer row very short. 



Patanas from 4000 ft. upwards; common. Fl. all the year; bright 

 pale violet. 



Endemic. 



A beautiful plant ; shows considerable variability in the size and 

 shape of the leaves and their covering, and in the size of the heads. 

 Sometimes grows into a large bush, 8 ft. high. 



11. V. zeylanica, Less, in Li?i?7CEa, 344 (1829). Pupula, S. 

 Kuppilay, T. 



Herm. Mus. 5, 35. Burm. Thes. 52. Fl. Zeyl. n. 306. Eupatoriuni 

 zeylaniciiDi^ L. Sp. PI. 837; Moon Cat. 57. Thw. Enum. 160. Clarke, 

 Comp. Ind. 20. C. P. 1738. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 238. Burm. Thes. t. 21. 



An undershrub with many straggling divaricate cylindrical 

 branches, finely white-tomentose when young; 1. 1^-3 in., 

 fiddle-shaped, auriculate at base, obtuse or subacute at apex, 

 strongly crenate and undulate, glabrous above, white with fine 

 wool beneath, rather thick and stiff, venation reticulate, 

 pellucid, prominent beneath, petiole short, tomentose; heads 

 small, numerous, very shortly stalked, often in threes, cymes 

 large, lax, irregular corymbose, inv.-bracts oblong-oval, apicu- 

 late, closely imbricate, slightly floccose-pubescent, fl. few 

 (6-8), wide-spreading, the cor. being curved outwards, the 

 pappus hairs erect altogether in centre of head ; cor.-lobes 

 linear, acute spreading at tips; achene faintly 5-ribbed, 

 pubescent, pappus yellowish-white, the outer row scanty, 

 extremely short. 



Low country in both moist and dry regions; very common. Fl. 

 Sept., Oct.; very pale violet. 

 Endemic. 

 Used as an external application to wounds. 



12. V. pectiniformls, DC. in Wight., Contrib. 6 (1834). 



Am. Pug. 27. v. pufuticulnta, DC. Prod. vii. 264. Clarke, Comp. 

 Ind. 15. Thw. Enum. 161. C. P. 294. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 239. Wight, Ic. t. 1077. 



A shrub, branches stout, furrowed, younger ones usually 

 clothed with short floccose wool and marked with jiromincnt 



