Vernonia.'] LXXVIIL COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 241 



on both surfaces, heads corymbose in a large panicle, invol. bracts oblong her- 

 baceous obtuse or acute, achenes glandular, pappus white. 



MOULMEIN ; lulls on the Attran, Parish. 



A good deal resembling V. Lobbii, but the leaves are much more pubescent beneath, 

 the heads form a large terminal branched panicle, nearly a foot long; the invol. 

 bracts are herbaceous and very different in shape, and the achenes are not tomentose. 



43. V. scandens, DC. Prodr. v. 32; climbing, branches slender and 

 inflorescence glabrous or pubescent, leaves petioled ovate elliptic or lanceolate 

 acuminate quite entire glabrous or pubescent beneath, heads 5-10-flowered in 

 long leafy terminal panicles all pedicelled, invol. bracts ovate or linear-lanceolate 

 acute or obtuse, achenes compressed glabrous deeply 10-ribbed, pappus red 

 outer hairs few short slender. Clarke Comp. Ind. 26 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 81. 

 Oonyza scandens, Wall. Cat. 3060. V. vagans, DC. I.e.; Clarke I. c. Gyni- 

 nanthemum scandens and vagans, Steetz in Peter's Mosamb. Bot. 338. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA and the KHASIA MTS. ; ascending to 4000 ft. ASSAM, SILHET, 

 and BIRMA. 



A rambling climber, branches -woody. Leaves 2-4 by l-2 in., rather thin ; 

 petiole slender. Heads ~-|- in. diam. ; pedicels slender ; invol. bracts very vari- 

 able in breadth, puberulous, inner | in. long ; corolla glabrous. Achenes |-| in. 

 long ; pappus between i ^ in. long. I cannot distinguish between V. scandens and 

 V. vagans, which in their extreme forms differ, the former in the broader blunter 

 invol. bracts, and I think longer achenes, but I find achenes of and \ in. in the 

 same specimen. 



44. V. blanda, DC. P)-odr. v. 32; a rambling shrub, slender branches 

 and leaves glabrous, panicles puberulous, leaves petioled elliptic acuminate at 

 both ends quite entire, heads 10-25-nowered in elongate branched terminal 

 panicles, invol. bracts linear-oblong acute puberulous, receptacle glabrous, 

 achenes pubescent 10-ribbed, pappus red outer hairs few. Clarke Comp. Ind. 

 25; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 202. exd. syn.; For. Fl. ii. 81. V. 

 blandula, Clai ke I. c. 26. Conyza blanda, Watt. Cat. 3033. 



MARTABAN and TENASSERIM ; on the Saluen river, Wallich. PEGU, Scott. 

 Very similar to V. scandens, but with pubescent achenes. 



45. V. Anderson!, Clarke Comp. Ind. 27 ; scandent, branches leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence pubescent or tomentose, leaves petioled ovate acute or 

 acuminate quite entire finely reticulated, heads 5-15-flowered in axillarv and 

 terminal loose panicles, invol. bracts small ovate obtuse, receptacle hairy, acbenes 

 deeply 10-ribbed flattened puberulous, pappus red outer hairs 0. V. Cumingiana, 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 170 (not of Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 333). 



UPPER ASSAM; Naga hills, Masters. BIRMA, Griffith. TENASSERIM, Heifer. 

 DISTRIB. Hongkong. 



Very similar to large-leaved states of V. scandens with obtuse invol. bracts, but 

 the leaves are thinly leathery, the nerves beautifully reticulated, the achenes puberu- 

 lous, and the receptacle covered with deciduous fulvous hairs. Invol. bracts ^ in., 

 narrowly oblong, very obtuse, nearly glabrous. Achenes (in Hongkong specimen) i 

 in. long; pappus upwards of i in. Bentham is mistaken in referring the Hongkong 

 plant to his V. Cumingiana of the Philippines, which has a naked receptacle and 

 far more numerous flowers in a head ; as is Kurz (Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 202) in re- 

 ferring V. Andersoni to blanda. 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



? V. (EUPATORIUM PECTINATUM, Wall. Cat. 3172.) from the Nilgherry Mts. ; there 

 is no specimen of this in the Wailichian Herbarium. 



V. (DECANEURON LILACINUM, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 314); there is no specimen 

 of this in Dalzell's Herbarium, and I fail to identify it bj the description. 



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