2l8 COMPOSITE. 



shoots. Involucre tubular, J4 by 1/16 inch, bracts many in 

 four or five series ; all but the innermost covered except 

 on the margins with white tomentum ; innermost thin, 

 glabrous. Flower one only, mauve-coloured, nearly as 

 long again as the involucre. Style exserted well above 

 the perianth. Achene cylindrical, 1/16 by 1/20 inch, very 

 faintly ten-ribbed, white; pappus hairs all equal, twice 

 as long, dirty white, t. 152. Wight Ic. t. 1085. 



The leaves are the largest of all our trees except those of Meliosma 

 wightii and the leaflets of Heptapleurum and Brassaia. 



In sholas. Nilgiris : up to at least 7,000 feet, especially 

 common on the borders of our area ; Pykara and below (a 

 very fine specimen 35 to 40 feet high with trunk 18 inches near 

 the short cut to Glen Morgan estate on the Waterfall road ; 

 Kotagiri : flowering early in May. Fysojt 1720, 2494. Bourne. 

 Collected by Rangacharl. Hohenacker 449, 1341. Wight Kew 

 Dist. 1526 : Munro in 1850 " on Coonoor Ghat." 



V. arborea Ha?n.^ with which it is included in the F.B.I., is a 

 Nepal plant with nearly orqui te glabrous leaves and broader heads of six 

 flowers. The spreading pappus of the six achenes gives to the fruiting 

 involucre a very different appearance from the close brush of one-flowered 

 heads of our plant. 



ADENOSTEMMA. 



Sticky herbs with opposite leaves and terminal 

 corymbs of flower-heads, with florets all tubular and 

 similar and anther bases rounded (not tailed) ; and 

 distinguished by the anthers being cut off square at the 

 top with hardly the flap usual to the family, and the 

 achenes having for pappus four or five club-shaped 

 scales. 



Species under 10, all but ours American. 



Adenostcmma viscosum Forst.; F.B.L iii 242, 

 VII I. An annual of 2 to 3 feet, sticky in all the younger 

 parts. Leaves stalked broadly ovate or deltoid, serrate, 

 with broadly triangular base. Stalks of the flower- 

 heads, slender, sticky. Involucre hemispheric, ]4- inch : 



