230 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Vernonia. 



or obscurely grooved, leaves petioled. ovate acuminate serrate, heads small 20- 

 flowered in lax open ebracteate corymbs, invol. bracts linear-oblong obtuse or 

 mucronate pubescent, achenes 5-angled almost glabrous, pappus white. DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 263 ; Clarlte Comp. 2nd. 19. V. conyzoides, Thivaites Enum. 160, 

 not of DC. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 1-4000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Very similar in habit to V. setigera, but only hoary, with looser corymbs, longer 

 peduncles, smaller heads, with much shorter more obtuse invol. bracts and whiter 

 pappus. 



24. V. Candolleana, Wt. $ Arn. in Wight Cat. 1509 ; branches terete 

 villous, leaves subsessile elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute serrate, heads 15- 

 flowered few small in a spreading villous corymb, invol. bracts few oblong pun- 

 gent, achenes 4-angled glabrous, pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 19. V. 

 dindigulensis, DC. Prodr. vii. 263. V. conyzoides, Wt. Ic. t. 829, and vol. iii. 

 part iv. p. 16 (errata), not of DC. 



NILGHERRY and PULNEY MTS., Wight. 



Apparently a low herb or shrub. Leaves 2-3 by -1 in., puberulous above, pubes- 

 cent beneath. Heads | in. diam. ; peduncles with a few setaceous bracts ; invol. bracts 

 puberulous, purple-tipped, outermost filiform ; corolla glabrous. Achenes ^ in. ; 

 pappus in., outer hairs subpersistent. Collected by Wight alone, and the specimens 

 are very poor, and, I suspect, all from the Pulneys, or other collectors would have 

 found it in the Nilgherries. 



25. V. scariosa, Arn. Pugill. 28; hispidly pubescent, leaves petioled 

 elliptic acute serrate, heads 1 2-14-tiowered small sessile terminal fascicled, invol. 

 bracts linear-oblong awned glabrate outermost ovate acuminate, achenws glabrous, 

 pappus reddish. Thwaites Enum. 161. Decaneuron ? scariosum, DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 264. Centratherum scariosum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 4. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 4-7000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Branches grooved and ribbed, clothed with spreading and curled hairs. Leaves 1-5 

 by ^-2^ in., scabrid above, beneath hairy like the branches. Heads narrow, \ and 5- 

 in. diam. ; outer invol. bracts \-^ ; corolla glabrous. Achenes in. ; pappus in., 

 outer hairs few, short. Thwaites' var. j8 crassa is only a more luxuriant state. 



B. Invol. bracts all obtuse or apiculate, usually linear or oblong, rarely ovate 

 and acute. 



* Outer invol. bracts very large, broad, concealing the inner. 



26. V. calycina, Wall, in DC. Prodr. v. 60; Cat. 2924; nearly glabrous, 

 upper branches involucre and upper leaves beneath hoary-pubescent, leaves sub- 

 sessile elliptic quite entire obtuse, heads subcoryiubose, outer invol. bracts very 

 large green elliptic or oblong obtuse inner linear acute. 



BIRMA; Prome, Wallich. 



Herbaceous, erect, black when dry. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2^ in., upper subobovate, 

 rather unequal-sided, glabrous above, puberulous beneath. Heads 1 in. diam., shortly 

 peduncled ; corollas 40-50, puberulous. Achems stel lately pubescent and glandular ;- 

 pappus in. long; hairs reddish, shining; outer few, half as long as the inner. 



** Outer invol. bracts longer than the inner, linear, with leafy tips ; annual. 



27. V. anthelmintica, Wittd. ; DC. Prodr. v. 61 ; tall, branched, 

 glandular-pubescent, leaves petioled lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate coarsely 

 serrate, heads subcorymbose, invol. bracts linear with broad purplish tips. 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 217; Wall Cat. 2920; Wight Contrib. 7; 

 Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 313 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 'ii. 202 ; Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 10. Conyza anthelmintica, Linn. Serratula anthelmintica, Roxb. 



