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Heads numerous, "2 to '25 in. in diam., in loose terminal corym- 

 bose cymes . . . . . . . . . . 3. F. cinerea. 



1. Vernonia akboeea, Buch.-Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 218. 

 A tree, 30 to 60 feet high ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill or 

 thinner, at first covered, like the under surfaces of the leaves and 

 branches of the inflorescence, with short rusty tomentum, sometimes 

 glabrous or glabrescent. Leaves sub-coriaceous, entire, elliptic ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate ; 

 upper surface glabrous, or nearly so, except the midrib, the reticulations 

 minute and distinct ; main-nerves 8 to 14 pairs, spreading, interarching, 

 bold and distinct on the lower surface, more faint on the upper ; length 

 3-5 to 6 in. ; breadth 1-75 to 2-75 in. ; petioles -75 to 1-25 in., pubes- 

 cent. Heads 2- to 5-flowered, collected in large open terminal panicles 

 much longer than the leaves. Involucral bracts few, small, oblong 

 obtuse, less than half as long as the flowers, pubescent, concave, per- 

 sistent. Corolla glabrous, bluish. Cypselas not conspicuously ribbed 

 short, truncate ; pappus in a single row, tuberculate, white tinged with 

 ochraceous, persistent. DC. Prod. V. 22 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 80 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 23 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 239. Vernonia 

 javanica, Bhtnieana and celebica, DC. I.e. 21, 22 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat 

 II. 9, 10. Etcjjatorinm celebicitm and javanicum, Blume Bijdr. 903 

 Gonyza acuminata and arborea, Wall. Cat. 3034a and 3074. 



Malacca : Griffith. Singapore : Lobb ; Ridley 2735, 2739, 9478 

 Maingay (K.D.) 948, 949, 950. Penang : Curtis 2, 926. Negri Sem 

 BiLAN : Bidley 10087. Selangor : PMley. Perak : Wray 2240, 2442 

 King's Collector, many Numbers ; Scortechini. — Distrib. Ceylon, 

 Malay Archipelago, Philippines, China. 



2. Vernonia chinensis. Less, in Linnaea, VI. 674. An erect annual 

 with divaricate, softly puberulous to tomentose, angled branches. Leaves 

 alternate, sessile or petiolate, membranous, ovate elliptic elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate or oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, sub-serrate or entire. 

 Heads few, -35 in. in diam., in lax, few-branched, axillary and terminal, 

 open puberulous cymes, on slender peduncles longer than the leaves* 

 15- to 30-flowered. Livoliicral bracts not numerous, lanceolate, awned 

 or acute, usually at first pubescent outside, inside glabrous, shining, 

 1 -nerved ; longer than the glabrous or glabrescent corollas. Cypselas 

 less than 1 in. long, 4- or 5-ribbed, glabrous. Papjms scanty, white. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 78; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 235. V. albicans, 

 DC. in Wight Contrib. 6; Prod. V. 26 (in part). Cyanopis pubescens 

 and C. villosa, DC. Prod. V. 69. Conyza chinensis, Lamk. Diet. II. 83 

 (not of Linn.). C. punct^data. Wall. Cat. 2995. E'lipatorium menthce- 

 foliiim, Wall. Cat. Cynanthillium villosum and C. p)nbcscens, Blume 



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