Vemonia.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE!. (J. D. Hooker.) 237 



Fl. Ind. iii. 405. Ascaricida indica, Cass in Diet. Sc. Nat. iii. Suppl. 38. Burm. 

 Thes. 210 t. 95. Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 24. 



Throughout INDIA ; from Kashmir to Ceylon (nowhere ? indigenous) and Malacca, 

 ascending to 5500 ft. in the Himalaya and Khasia Mts. DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 



A tall robust leafy annual. Leaves 3-8 in., rather membranous. Heads -| in. 

 diam., about 40-fld. Achenes i in., 10-ribbed, pubescent ; outer pappus rather longer, 

 shining, reddish, flattened, deciduous; inner very short, rigid, paleaceous, 



*** Outer in vol. bracts much shorter than the inner. 



f Heads very small. Leaves not thickly clothed beneath with white woolly 

 tomentum. 



28. V. cinerascens, Schultz-Bip. in Schweinf. Ethiop. 162; low, 

 shrubby, much branched, clothed with ashy pubescence, leaves elongate spathu- 

 late tip rounded sessile with a very narrow base punctate, heads few small 

 solitary on the divaricating branches of terminal cymes, invol. bracts linear 

 subacute, achenes silky, pappus white. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 275. V. 

 spathulata, Hochst. in Herb. Schweinf. n. 2133. 



The PUNJAB ; at Peshawar, Vicary, Talbot. SALT RANGE, Fleming. WUZTJEISTAN, 

 Stewart. SCIND, at Kurrache, Stocks. DISTRIB. Beluchistan, Abyssinia. 



Branches white, quite terete. Leaves 5-!^ in., green when dry, both surfaces 

 alike. Heads % in. diam. ; peduncles with rarely minute bracts ; invol. bracts linear, 

 in. ; corolla glabrous. Achenes -^ in., densely silky ; pappus in.; hairs all persis- 

 tent, outer many short rigid. The achene is incorrectly described in the Flor. Trop. 

 Africa. 



29. V. elaeag^ni folia, DC. Prodr. v. 22; climbing, branches petioles 

 and inflorescence hoary, leaves petioled oblong linear-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate 

 quite entire obtuse or acute glabrous and reticulate above loosely silky beneath, 

 heads 3-5-flowered in narrow terminal short loose panicles all pedicelled, invol. 

 bracts few small ovate obtuse, achenes compressed 5-8-ribbed glabrous, pappus 

 white outer hairs few. Clarke Comp. Ind. 24 ; Kurz For. Fl. 11, 80. V. ellip- 

 tica, DC. in Wight Contrib. 5 ; Prodr. v. 22. Conyza elaeagnifolia, Wall. Cat. 

 3041. 



PEGU ; Maclelland. TENASSERIM, Wallich, Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. Siam. 



Branches long, woody, finely grooved. Leaves 13 by ^-1 in., pale and almost 

 silky beneath ; petiole slender. Heads \ in. diam., about 3 at the end of the rigid 

 divaricating branches of the panicle ; invol.-bracts ^ in. ; corolla glabrous. Achenes 

 j l 5 in. ; pappus \ in., persistent. 



30. V. nemoralis, Thw. Enum. 160 ; herbaceous, branches and heads 

 puberulous, leaves petioled elliptic- or linear-lanceolate acuminate distantly 

 eerrate glabrous on both surfaces nerves obscure, invol. bracts linear-oblong 

 obtuse, achenes hairy, pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 11. 



CEYLON ; Saffragam, Galagama, &c. Walker, &c. 



Apparently a slender herb. Leaves 2-4 by -1 in., young slightly pul ascent 

 beneath. Heads sometimes corymbose, \-^ in. diam. ; outermost invol. bracts short, 

 obtuse. Corolla glabrous. Achenes obscurely 10-ribbed ; pappus | in., outer bristles 

 very short. 



ft Heads large or small. Leaves thickly clothed beneath with dense white or 

 buff luoolly tomentum. Shrubs. 



31. V. salvieefolia, Wight Ic. t. 1079 ; branches woody, inflorescence 

 and leaves beneath clothed densely with white wool, leaves crowded at the ends 

 of the branches sessile linear-lanceolate obtuse crenulate rugulose above, heads 

 10-14-flowered in open corymbs, invol. bracts short oblong acute, achenes com- 



