Vernonia.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 235 



BEHAR, on Parusnath, alt. 4000 ft. CENTRAL INDIA, and from the CONCAN to the 

 TRAVANCOR MTS., RANGOON, BIRMA, and TENASSERIM. 



Stem shrubby, 4-8 ft. Leaves 2-5 by 1-4 in., varying much in texture ; nerves 

 spreading, reticulate beneath. Heads % in. diam., usually clustered ; peduncles very 

 short; in vol. bracts with greenish tips; corolla glabrous. Achenes ^\ in.; pappus 

 - in., hairs scabrid, outer very few or 0. This cannot be the plant described by 

 Hamilton as V. aspera (as supposed by Kurz), for that is stated to have a short outer 

 pappus, and to be Roxburgh's Eupatorium asperum ; as, however, Wallich's 3032 B. 

 (under Conyza multiflora) is an authentic specimen of. Hamilton's V. aspera, and so 

 named, it is probable that this author had two plants under his eye. 



20. V. chinensis, Less, in Linncea, vi. 674; puberulous or tomentose, 

 branches slender terete, leaves sessile or petioled ovate elliptic or elliptic-lanceo- 

 late subserrate, heads 20-30-flowered scattered or 2-3-nate,iuvol. bracts pubescent 

 lanceolate awned, achenes 4-5-ribbed glabrous glandular, pappus white. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 18. V. albicans, DC. in Wight Contrib. 6 ; Prodr. v. 26, in part. 

 Cyanopis pubescens and villosa, DC. Prodr. v. 69. Conyza chinensis, Lamk. 

 Diet. ii. 83, not of Linn. C. puuctulata, Wall. Cat. 2995. Eupatorium men- 

 thsefolium, Wall. Cat. Isonema ovata, Cass. in Diet. Sc. Nat. xxiv. 25. 

 Cynanthillium villosum and pubescens, Blume Bijd. 889 and 890. Centratherum 

 chinense, Less, in Linncea, 1829, 320. Synanthera, Wall. Cat. 7136. 



EASTERN PENINSULA, from Pegu to Malacca. DISTRIB. Java, China, Philippines. 



Annual ; branches divaricate. Leaves 1-3 in., membranous. Heads ^ in. diam. ; 

 peduncles slender; invol. bracts not numerous, glabrous or pnberulous; receptacle 

 pitted; corolla glabrous. Achenes in. ; pappus | in., hairs few, outer 0. Conyza 

 patula, Ait. Hort. Kew, v. 26, quoted under this by Lessing, is a very doubtful Chinese 

 plant. 



21. V. salig-na, DC. Prodr. v. 33; much branched, glabrous or slightly 

 scabrid, leaves sessile or shortly petioled elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate acumi- 

 nate coarsely serrate, heads 6-12-flowered in terminal branched rounded corymbs, 

 inner invol. bracts linear-oblong acute or acuminate scarious purplish outermost 

 subulate, achenes strongly 10-ribbed glabrous, pappus reddish or white. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 13. V. longicaulis, DC. I. c. Conyza saligna, Wall. Cat. 3061. 

 Eupatorium longicaule, Wall. Cat. 3169. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nipal eastward, ascending to 4000 ft. ; ASSAM, KIIASIA 

 MTS., CHITTAGONG, and BIRMA. 



A coarse, leafy, almost shrubby, very variable herb. Leaves 3-6 by -2^ in., 

 rather rigid, often a little scabrid on both surfaces. Heads |-| in. diam. ; peduncles 

 slender ; invol. bracts rigid, outermost very short, subulate, inner in. Achenes 

 in., compressed ; pappus \ in., outer hairs 0. 



VAR. ? nilghirensis ; branches and inflorescence glandular-pubescent, pappus pale 

 reddish-brown. Nilgherry Mts.. Wight (Kew Distrib. 1525), Clarke.- This much 

 resembles V. pectiniformis. 



22. V. setig-era, Arn. Pugill. 27 ; tomentose oi;villous, branches grooved, 

 leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate, heads 6-10-flowered small in rounded 

 terminal ebracteate corymbs, invol. bracts few linear shortly awned, achenes 

 4-5-angled nearly glabrous glandular, pappus yellowish. DC. Prodr. vii. 263; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 18. V. neilgheryensis, Thwaites Enum. 160, not of DC. 



CEYLON; Central Province, alt, 6-7000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Erect, stout or slender, much branched, leafy. Leaves 2-3 in., narrowed into the 

 petiole, glabrate 1 above, black when dry.' Corymbs lax, ebracteate ; heads in. diam., 

 obconic; invol. bracts few, puberulous; corolla glabrous. Achenes ^ in., with a few 

 short hairs ; pappus in., outer very short or 0. 



23. V. Hookeriana, Arn. Pugill. 28 ; hoary-puberulous, branches terete 



