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lineari-oblanceolata, apice subacuta, ad basin in petislum sensim 
attenuata, 2-6 cm. longa, 5-8 mm. lata, subchartacea, superne 
onju 
mm. longi, hirsuti. Capitula subterminalia, solitaria a 
geminata, longe. pedunculata, circiter 1 em. diametro ; pee 
satis robusti, 4-5-5-5 em. longi, dense vel subdense tomentelli, 
Pappus duplex, albus, setis 
exterioribus brevissimis, interioribus gracilibus 5 mm. longis 
brevissime barbellatis. 
Inpra. - Madras: Tinnevelly district; on the banks of streams 
at Naterikal, 1800 m., Peb., Ramaswami in Herb. Calcutta no. 
38,581 ; Agastiyarmalai, May, Barber 2885. 
This species shows a very obvious affinity with V. anceps, 
C. B. Clarke, which is apparently endemic to Ceylon; in the 
latter the leaves are broader and more coarsely toothed. 
867. Calocephalus Slobosus, Scott et Hutchinson [Com- 
positae-Inuloideae] ; Species distinctissima, a C. acteo, Less., 
foliis filiformibus omnino alternis, inflorescentiis globosis flavis 
differt. 
vel plur es, simplices, usque ad 17 em. 
longi, gracillimi, lanati. Folia alterna, suberecta, filiformia, 
c 
Oo 
pinusve lanata. Capitula cylindrica, 5 mm longa, in glomeru- 
. diametro arcte aggregata, 
4-flora, flavo-straminea. Involucri. bracteae circiter 4-seriatae, 
m. longae, interiores lineari- 
lanceolatae, acutae, 4-4-5 mm. longae, scariosae, glabrae. 
Corollae tubus 3 mm. longus, inferne cylindricus, superne paulum 
ampliatus, glaber; lobi 5, triangulares, 1-5 mm. ongi.. Achaenia 
, Pappi setae circiter 20, albae, 
1-75 mm. ongae, dense plumosae, 
WEsTERN AUSTRALIA. Kauring, on the York—Greenhills line, 
Stoward 505. 
868. Bassia b tyraceoides, Scott [Sapotaceae]; a B. buty- 
racea, Roxb., foliis acute acuminatis, nervis tertiariis parallelis 
confertioribusque, corollae lobis ad 16, staminibus 70-80, fila- 
mentis setoso-pilosis, ovario glabro differt. 
Arbor cortice plus minusve ru 
ad 1 em. longo, basi attenuata, 15-25 em. longa, 6-11 cm. lata, 
margine undulata, membranacea, supra nitida, utrinque glabra ; 
costa media supra leviter impressa, infra prominens; nervl 
