COMPOSITyE. 215 



elliptic-ovate, acute, crenate-serrate : on the underside 

 gland-dotted and more or less woolly especially in the 

 veins. 



Heads few, 3 to I inch across, on stalks of J^ to 2 

 inches, in open corymbs. Inner parts ^ by 1/12 inch, 

 narrow oblong acuminate into a short or long often 

 recurved awn ; outer bracts with shorter broad part and 

 outermost filiform (awn only). Receptacle Ye inch : 

 florets about thirty. Achenes nearly glabrous, strongly 

 ribbed. Pappus pale reddish. 



Pulneys : near Kodaikanal — Falconer shola, below Glen falls 

 and at lower levels. Bourne 297, 310, * 770, * 1439, i439»* 

 1440."^ Also Travancore. 



Closely allied to V. bracteata Wall, of the Himalayas and Khasi 

 mountains. 



Vcrnonia conyzoidcs DC. ; Wight's Herb. Prop, 

 1387!, not of Wight Ic.y t.Sig; F.B.I. , under V. cinerea 

 Less., iii 233, V 18 ^. A sturdy herb distinguished among 

 our species by its narrow pointed involucral bracts. 



Stem ribbed, usually unbranched till near the flower- 

 ing region, sturdy. Leaves erect : stalk J4 to ^ inch, 

 broadened slightly and hairy at the insertion : blade 

 very acute, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 3 by J^ to 

 I J4 inches irregularly serrate glabrous or nearly so on the 

 upper side, very pubescent or tomentose with distinct 

 nerves and reticulations on the under. Corymbs much 

 branched, terminal on the main stem and leafy branches 

 of the upper axils ; pubescent with few or no bracts : 

 ultimate peduncles % inch, slender. Heads very nume- 

 rous, ]/ihy Ye inch : outer bracts not much shorter than 

 the inner, one-nerved, acute or spine-tipped, pubescent. 

 Achenes hairy, surmounted by a rim of very short, 

 outwardly directed scales : pappus hardly longer than 

 the bracts, white, t. 149 (from Bourne 6323). 



By woods. Pulneys : Kodaikanal and below. Nilgiris : 

 Ootacamund. Fyson 2007, 1446, 2037, 1216. Bourne 4819. 



