232 Lxxviu. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Vernon-ia. 



stout petiole, finely reticulate on both surfaces, those on the inflorescence linear- 

 oblong. Heads ^--g- in. diam., clothed with white woolly tomentum ; invol. bracts i in., 

 white. Achenes (unripe) ~ in. ; pappus in. ; hairs slender, persistent, outer very 

 short. 



10. V. clivorum, Hance in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1869, 164 ; branches leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence puberulous, leaves shortly petioled lanceolate acumi- 

 nate distantly serrate reticulate beneath, heads small corymbose on short lateral 

 branches, invol. bracts linear acute outermost subulate, achenes pubescent, pappus 

 white. V. Kingii, Clarke Comp. 2nd. 12. 



PEGU and MARTABAN, Kurz. UPPER BIRMA, J. Anderson. DISTRIB. Canton. 



Branches grooved and ribbed. Leaves 3-5 by |-2 in., tip entire, base rounded, 

 rather rigid. Heads \ in. diam., 1 5-20 -flowered ; peduncles slender; outer invol. 

 bracts short, subulate; corolla glabrous. Pappus ^ in.; hairs slender, persistent, 

 outer few, very short. I have seen only Hance's Canton specimen, to which Clarke 

 refers his V. Kingii: the achenes are immature. 



11. V. peg-uensis, Clarke Comp. Ind. 13 ; branches and corymbs finely 

 pubescent, leaves petioled oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate acute or acuminate 

 serrate glabrate on both surfaces, heads in simple axillary and terminal branched 

 panicled corymbs, invol. bracts few lanceolate aristate-acuminate inner liuear- 

 oblong obtuse or acute, outermost ovate minute, achenes slightly hairy, pappus 

 white. 



PEGU ; Ira wad dy and Saluen valleys, Kurz. 



Apparently a robust tall species. Leaves 12 by 4 to 6 by 1 in., rather membra- 

 nous, puberulous when young, narrowed into the petiole. Heads ^-f in., 12-20- 

 flowered ; inner invol. bracts \ in., membranous, green. Achenes (immature) \ in. ; 

 pappus hairs fine, persistent, outer many, very short, rigid. 



12. V. Thomson!, Hook. f.\ half-shrubby, much branched, branches 

 corymbs and leaves above scaberulous, leaves subsessile lanceolate acuminate 

 serrate puberulous beneath, heads obconic 10- .1 5-flowered in small short axillary 

 corymbs, peduncles slender, invol. inner bracts linear acuminate outermost needle- 

 shaped, achenes glabrous strongly 10-ribbed, pappus white. 



CHITTAGONOJ ; at Seetakoond, J. D. H. $ T. Thomson. 



A straggling undershrub ; branches ribbed and grooved. Leaves 4-8 by 1^-3 in., 

 membranous. Heads on slender pubescent pedicels, ^ in. diam ; invol. bracts glabrous, 

 shining, recurved, inner | in. Achenes in. ; pappus ^ in., very fine, persistent, outer 

 liairs very few. This is probably the Seetakoond plant which Kurz includes under 

 F. saligna, from which it widely differs in the larger heads and much longer narrower 

 white invol. bracts. 



13. V. bracteata, Wall. Cat. 2921 ; rigid, scabrid or scaberulous, leaves 

 ^e>ile or shortly petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute remotely serrate, 

 heads 30-flowered few large corymbose peduncled, invol. bracts not numerous 

 linear-oblong with slender often recurved awns, outermost subulate, achenes 

 irlabrous, pappus reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 17 excl. syn. Wight. Decaneuron 

 f-ilhetense, DC. P)-odr. v. 67. Xipholepis silhetensis, Steetz in Peter's Mosamb. 

 Bot. 345 ? 



EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Sikkim and Bhotan. KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-6000 ft. BIRMA ; 

 Karen hills, Kurz. 



Shrubby below, erect, sparingly branched, leafy ; branches terete, pubescent or 

 roughly tomentose. Leaves usually narrow, 2-4 by -1 in., rarely 4 by 2 in., more or 

 less rigid and scabrid. Heads rarely many, | in. diam. ; peduncles erect or ascending, 

 scabrid ; invol. bracts few, inner often ^ in., thin, glabrate. Corolla glabrous. 

 Achenes quite glabrous ; otherwise and pappus as in V. Roxburghii and teres. 



14. V. Roxburgh!!, Less, in Linneea, 1831, 674; rigid, scabrid, leaves 

 hard subsessile or petioled elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate acuminate acutely 



