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



Pressed obscurely 3-4-angled glabrous, pappus pale reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 

 ^0. V. Arnottiana, Thorns, msa. ex Clarke. 



TRAVANCORE, at Courtallam, Wight. 



Branches very thick. Leaves 4-T> by -f in., thick, above almost tubercled by the 

 short close-set high wrinkles between the numerous nerves. Heads % in. diara., sub- 

 sessile ; peduncles with few small linear axillary bracts ; invol. bracts | in. ; corolla 

 glabrous. Achenes % in. ; pappus as long ; outer hairs very numerous, short, flat, 

 persistent, inner caducous. 



32. V. Wig-htiana, Am. Pugill. 27 ; shrubby, branches leaves beneath 

 and corymbs clothed with dense buff wool, leaves shortly petioled elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or acute obscurely toothed woolly but finally glabrate 

 above, heads 30-40-flowered in terminal open corymbs, invol. bracts short ob- 

 long acute, achenes 4-5-ribbed glabrous, pappus dirty white. DC. Prodr. vii. 

 263 ; Thwaites Enum. 160, excl. var. /3 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 19. 



CEYLON; central province, alt. 5-8000 ft., Macrae, &c. 



Branches terete, stout or slender, leafy. Leaves 2-5 by f-l in., coriaceous; 

 petiole sometime f in. Heads -| in. diam. ; peduncles stout, with a few narrow 

 bracts ; invol. bracts | in., woolly; corolla laxly hairy. Achenes ~ in.; pappus in., 

 outer hairs very short flattened. 



33. V. indica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 16; branches leaves beneath and 

 inflorescence clothed with dense soft whitish tomentum, leaves subsessile 

 elliptic or almost orbicular acute serrate-toothed coriaceous, heads numerous in 

 broad terminal corymbs 6-10-flowered, invol. scales broad oblong rnucronate, 

 achenes glabrous, pappus yellowish. Conyza indica, Wall. Cat. 3042. De- 

 caneuron dendigulense, DC. in Wight Contrib. 7 ; Prodr. v. 67. Lysistemma 

 dendigulense, Steetz in Peters Mosamb. Bot. 341. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore. 



An undershrub, 2-8 ft., erect; branches terete. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-5 in., rigid, 

 scaberulous above ; nerves many, much raised beneath, petiole rarely 1 in. Heads ^ 

 in. diam., crowded at the end of the stout branches; inner invol. bracts | in., tomen- 

 tose, closely imbricate, outermost minute ovate; corolla glabrous. Achenes ~ in.; 

 pappus | in. ; outer hairs 0. 



34. V. zeylanica, Less, in Linn&a, 1829, 344 ; branches leaves beneath 

 and corymbs ashy tomentose or woolly, leaves shortly petioled ovate with alyrate 

 usually auricled base acute coarsely crenate, heads 4-8-flowered small fascicled 

 in large terminal corymbs, invol. bracts very short ovate acute, achenes 5-ribbed 

 puberulous, pappus pale reddish. DC. in Wight Contrib. 5 ; Prodr. v. 26; Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 20. Eupatorium zeylanicum, Linn. Cacalia, JSurm. Thes. Zeyl. 52 

 t. 21. 



CEYLON ; hilly parts of the island ascending to 3000 ft. 



Branches slender, grooved and ribbed. Leaves l-2 by -1 in., coriaceous, puberu- 

 lous above, densely woolly and reticulate beneath, basal auricles horizontal. Heads % 

 in. diam.; peduncles with few small axillary bracts ; invol. bracts few, woolly, ^ in. 

 long; corolla glabrous. Achenes ^ in. long; pappus ^ in.; outer hairs few, very 

 short- 



ftt Jfeads usually large. Leaves not clothed with white wool beneath. 



35. V. extensa, DC. Prodr. v. 33 ; branches and inflorescence pubescent, 

 leaves petioled lanceolate acuminate sharply serrate glabrous or scaberulous 

 above pubescent or glabrate beneath, heads in loose terminal corymbs 8-10- 

 flowered, invol. bracts few linear-oblong concave obtuse coriaceous, outermost 

 very short obtuse, achenes pubescent, pappus reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 15. 



