Lamprachcenium.~\ LXXYIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 229 



flat, naked. Corollas all tubular, equal, slender; lobes 5, narrow. Anthers 

 obtusely auricled. Style-arms subulate. Achenes obovoid, turgid, a little com- 

 pressed", smooth, shining ; pappus hairs few, short, fugacious, red. 



1. Xi. microc,eplialum, Senth. in Gen. Plant, ii. 225. Decaneuron 

 microcephalum, Dais, in Hook. Kew Joum. iii. 231 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 122 ; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 5. 



The COXCAN- ; at Parwar Grhat, Bombay, Gibson, Dalzell. 



Habit, pubescence and foliage of Centratherum tenue. Stem 1-2 ft., simple or 

 branched from the base, glabrous hairy or glandular. Leaves petioled, 2-4 in., hairy 

 above, white- tomentose beneath. Heads \- in. dianu; peduncles slender, hispid or 

 glabrate ; invol. bracts acute, ciliate, none leafy, erect or recurved. Achenes in. ; 

 pappus reddish, equalling the corolla-tube. 



4. ADENOON, Dalz. 



An erect rigid herb. Leaves alternate, sessile. Heads corymbosely panicled, 

 homogamous. Involucre campanulate ; bracts many-seriate, coriaceous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, aristate, outer gradually shorter. Receptacle flat, minutely fimbriate. 

 Corollas all tubular, equal, slender ; liinb narrow, 5-cleft. Anther-bases sagittate. 

 Style-arms subulate, hairy. Achenes obovoid, obtuse, subcoinpressed, 10-hbbed ; 

 pappus 0. 



LA. indicum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 344; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 121 ; Steetz. in Peters Mosamb. Bot. 352 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 5. Ethulia sp. 

 v. Gen. nov. Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 101. 



The CONCAN ; Parwar Grhat, Bombay, Ritchie, Law, &c. ; Belgaum, Law. 



A rather stout erect hairy or hispid annual, 2-3 ft. ; stem angled and grooved, 

 branched above. Leaves shortly petioled, 14 in., broadly ovate obovate or almost 

 orbicular, coarsely unequally toothed, hairy on both surfaces. Heads f in. diam., 

 sessile and peduncled ; peduncles stout cr slender, hispid or tomentose ; bracts at the 

 forks subulate ; corolla ^ in. ; limb as long as the tube. AcJienes -^ in., glandular ; 

 ribs very stout. 



5. VERNONIA, Schreb. 



Herbs, shrubs, climbers or small trees. Leaves alternate. Heads terminal 

 or axillary, solitary cyiuose or pauicled, homogamous. Involucre ovoid globose 

 or hemispheric, equalling or shorter than the flowers ; bracts in many series, 

 inner longest. Receptacle naked or pitted, sometimes shortly hairy. Corollas 

 all equal, tubular, slender : lobes 5, narrow. Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms 

 subulate. Achenes striate ribbed or angled, rarely terete ; pappus of many hairs, 

 often girt with a row of outer short hairs or flattened bristles. DISTKIB. About 

 380 species, chiefly tropical, and mostly American. 



I have found it impossible to classify the Indian Vernonias under the commonly 

 recognised sections of the genus as defined in the " Genera Plantarum," and have had 

 recourse to what appear to me to be more natural divisional characters, but they are 

 extremely vague. The species are most difficult to limit and define, the involucral 

 bracts being especially variable. 



A. Invol. bracts all or the outermost subulate or lanceolate, often aristate 

 (inner linear and obtuse in V. Helferi and peguensis, outer ovate acute). 



* Heads -1 in. diam., rarely less, few, in open terminal or lateral corymbs 

 or panicles, or solitary and axillary. 



1. V. teres, Wall. Cat. 2926; rigid, scabrid, leaves hard subsessileobovste 

 or obovate- or elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acute subserrate heads 30-50- 



