L Vebnonijl. ] 85. COMPOSITJE. 



III. Heads panicled, small, under %' long. 



Shrubby, 4-8 ft . . • • • • • 4. divergent. 

 Herbaceous, 1-3 ft. • • • • • • 5. cinerea. 



1. V. teres, Wall. 



A rigid herb, somewhat resembling the English knapweed, 

 ecabrid, with harsh sub-sessile obovate or obovate- or ell.- or 

 obloug-lanceolato acute serrate leaves, 2-5 7 by 1-2''. Outer 

 invol. bracts often squarrose. Fruit silky. 



Common, eap. in open scrub jungles. Fls. Oct.'Nov. 



2. V- Eoxburghiij Less. Dora bohok\ S. 



Somewhat resembling the last, but larger 3-4 ft. and more 

 branched and heads panicled. L. harsh sub- sessile or petiuled 

 acuminate serrate, up to V by 2f ". Invol. |' ; cylindric or ovoid 

 of very numerous imbricating often reddish bracts, outer 

 enbulate or lanceolate, inner linear apiculate or pungent, not 

 equarrose. Fr. |", ribbed. Pappus dirty white. 



Waste places and jungles, common. FJs.. Oct .•'Nov. Pr. Jany. 



3. V. anthelmintic^, Willd. Syn. Centrathernm 

 anthelminticunij 0. Kuntze ; Saoraj, S, 



A tall coarse annual 2-7 ft. high, with coarsely toothed 

 sub-Bessile ell. or obovate acuminate leaves tapering at the 

 base, lower often 8" by 3", upper gradually smaller eLI- 

 lanceolate toothed. Heads with a short thick peduncle, oblong 

 J* long. Easily recognized by its linear-oblong invol ucral 

 bracts which are constricted beneatn the free foliaceous green 

 or coloured tips. 



Especially common in waste land and near villages under the shade 

 of trees. Fls. 8ept.-Dec. Fr. Nov.-Jany. 



Stems sometimes as' thick as the thumb below, with toaientose 

 branches. Corolla teeta sometimes 6, jrd as long as the dilated part of 

 the tube, anthers slightly exserted and often tailed. 



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