Ternonia. ] COMPOSITE. 233 



1. VERNONIA, Schreb. 



About 7 species of small trees or climbers. V. Wightiana, Bltb. and Hook, f . 

 (Monosis Wightiana, Beddome t. 226), is a tree of the Nilgiri Hills. V. Kurzii, 

 C. B. Clarke ; Kurz ii. 80, is a small tree of the toungyas in the Martaban Hills ; and 

 V. arborea, Hani., is found in Tenasserim. The other three species are Burmese 

 climbers. 



1. V. volkameriasfolia, DC.; Beddome t. '225; Gamble 50. V. acu- 

 minata, DC. ; Kurz ii. 79. 



A small tree. Bark brown. Wood whitish, turning pale brown, 

 moderately hard. Pores moderate-sized, often in short radial lines. 

 Medullary rays numerous, fine and moderately broad. Pith large. 



Eastern Himalaya, South India and Burma. 



Weight, 3 1'5 Ibs. This is probably Kyd's Vernonia (major) Weight 31 '5 Ibs. 

 P = 383. 



E. 3312. Pankabari, Darjeeling, 3,000 feet. 



2. ARTEMISIA, Linn. 



Contains the " Wormwoods," only one of which reaches the size of a small shrub. 

 The leaves of many species are used as a febrifuge and in the preparation of 

 "absinthe." 



1. A. vulgaris, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 420 ; Gamble 50. Vern. 

 Naga, naga dona, dona, Hind., Beng. ; Titapat, Nep. 



Bark thin, with longitudinal fissures. Wood grey, hard. Pores 

 very small ; in short radial lines between the distant, fine and moderately 

 broad medullary rays. 



A gregarious shrub, coming up on old cultivations between 3,000 and 6,000 feet in 

 the Sikkim Hills, and often covering large tracts of land until killed down by the 

 tree growth which succeeds it. This is probably the Nagdana of Cachar, said by 

 Mr. Brownlow to be one of the plants on which the Attacus Atlas silkworm is fed. 



Its ashes when burnt are considered to give a good manure for cultivation. 



E 2857. Tukdah Forest, Darjeeling, 5,000 feot. 



ORDER LVIII. GOODENOVIEJE. 



Sccevola Ronigii, Vahl. ; Kurz ii. 84 (8. Taccada, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 527.) Vern. 

 Penglai htan, Burrn., placed by .Kurz under Campanulacece, but in this Order by 

 Bentham and Hooker in the Genera Plantarum II. 538, is an evergreen large shrub, 

 common in the tidal forests of Tenasserim and the Andamans. It has a soft, spongy 

 pith, and coarse, milky, fibrous wood. 



ORDER LIX. VACCINIACE5J. 



An Order of small trees or shrubs, erect or epiphytic, of the mountains of Eastern 

 and Southern India. It contains 4 genera : Agapetes, Pentapterygium, Vacciniiim 

 and Corallolotrys. Agapetes contains about 16 species, mostly epiphytical. A. 

 variegata, G. Don (Thibandia variegata, Wall. ; Royle t. 79, C"ratostema variegata, 

 Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 4.13, Vaccinium variegatum, Kurz ii. 88) Vern. JaJamnt, Garo, 



