10 LXXT. COMPOSIT.?:. 



At'henes pubescent or silky. 

 Achenes uot ribbed. 



Herbaceous; achenes ^g in. long, appressedlj pubescent. 1. V. ciiierea. 



Shrubby; achenes ,-'5 in. long, densely silky 2. V. cinerascens. 



Achenes ribbed, t?-? i"- l^^ngi pubescent 3. V.anthelmintica. 



Achenes glabrous or glandular between the ribs, not pubescent 



nor silky. 

 Leaves thin, membi-anous, scabrid or pubescent (not toiuen- 



tose) beneath 4. V. divergens. 



Leaves thick, coriaceous, densely woolly-toinentose beneath. 6. V. indica. 



1. Vernonia cinerea, Less, in Linncea, v. 4(1829) p. 291. Annual, 

 erect, 6-30 in. high ; stem stiff, cyhiidric, striate, more or less pubes- 

 cent, slightly branched. Leaves petioled, 1-2 by f-lg in. (the upper 

 leaves the smallest), variable in shape, broadly-elliptic or lanceolate, 

 obtuse or acute, shortly mucronate, more or less pubescent on both 

 sides, irregularly toothed or shallovvly crenate-serrate ; petioles variable, 

 \~\ in. long. Heads small, about 20-flowered, | in. in diam., in lax 

 divaricate terminal corymbs, with a minute linear bract beneath each 

 head of flowers and with small bracts in the forks of the peduncles ; 

 flowers pinkish-violet. Invol. -bracts linear-lanceolate, avi'ued, silky on 

 the back. Pappus white, the exterior row short, about -^j^ in. long. 

 Achenes -^-^ in. long, oblong, terete (not ribbed), slightly narrowed at 

 the base, clothed with appressed white hairs. El. B. I. v. 3, p. 233 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 96 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 121 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 20 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 7 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 647 : Watt, Diet. Econ. Prodr. v. 6, part 4, p. 231. — Elowers : Jan.- 

 Eeb. Veen. Sahadevi. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Lamhert ! ; Matheran, Cooke ! Deccan : Poona, Woodrow ! 

 S. M. Country: Belgaum, Ritchie, 1<I91 ! Kanara : Thomson]; Kala naddi, Ritchie, 

 1U91 ! SiND : Tata district, i//iote Purcml — Distrib. Throughout India; Tropical 

 Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



A common weed throughout the Presidency. Growing as it does in various situa- 

 tions and under varying conditions of moisture and soil, the plant is naturally a 

 somewhat variable one. 



2. Vernonia cinerascens, Schultz-Bijo in Schwelnf. Fl. Aetliiop. 

 (1867) p. 162. Shrubby, 1-3 it. high, clothed with ashy pubescence; 

 stems branched, terete, ashy-pubescent, rather slender, grooved. Leaves 

 sessile, |-2 by yg-f in., oblong-spathulate, rounded or obtuse at the 

 apex, apiculate, ashy-pubescent on both sides, entire or with a few teeth. 

 lieads \ in. in diam., shortly stalked, or the uppermost sessile or nearly 

 so on the branches of a corymbose panicle. Invol. -bracts linear-oblong, 

 obtuse or subacute, sometimes apiculate, pubescent, usually tinged with 

 purple, the outer much the smallest. Corollas purple, glabrous. Pappus 

 shorter than the corolla, about ^ in. long, white when mature, persistent ; 

 hairs of the outer row numerous, rigid. Achenes jJ^ in. long, densely 

 silkv, slightly tapering at the base. El. B. I. v. 3, p. 237; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 647; OUver, El. Trop. Afr. v. 3, 

 p. 275. — Elowers : Oct.-Dec. 



Sind: Balzell, 45 I, Bhola Puran I ; ICarachi, Woodrow; Jemadar ka Landa, near 

 Karachi, SfocAsl — Distrib. India (Panjab, Peshawar, Salt Range, Wazaristan) ; 



Behu-histan, Tropical Africa. 



3. Vernonia anthelmintica, IVi/ld. Si>. PL v. 3 (1800) p. 1634. 

 Annual, robust, erect, leafy; stems 2-3 fl. higti, branched, ]>ubesccnt. 



