42 COMPOSITE:. 



Upper lip of corolla 0, lower lip 5-lobed Ainslicm. 



Upper lip of corolla 2-, lower lip 4 or 3-lobed Gerbera. 



B. Plant with milky juice; corolla all ligulate LIGULIFLOR^C. 



Pappus-setae feathery Plcris. 



Pappus-setaa simply hairy, rough or smooth. 

 Acheue rostrate. 



Scape erect, 1-hcacled Taraxacum. 



Head paniculate or racemose Lact uca . 



Achene not rostrate. 



Achene narrowed at the apex . + Crepis. 



Achene truncate at the apex. 



Fruit complanate Sonclius. 



Fruit terete , literati u // / . 



Etlndia Lixx. 



Ethulia conyzoides Lixx.; HAYATA Gen. Ind. Fl. Formos. p. 39. 

 The occurrence of this species in the island is rather doubtful. 



Vernonia SCHKEB. 

 Key to species. 



1. Pappus very short or nearly none 1. V. Kawakavnii. 



Pappus-setae copious 2. 



2. Trailing plant 2. V. Andersoni. 



Erect plant 3. 



3. Leaves whitish beneath 3. V. chinensis. 



Leaves not whitish beneath 4. 



4. Leaves obovate-oblong 7cm. long 2-3 cm. broad 4. V. gratiosa. 



Leaves much-smaller oblong or linear 2-3 cm. long 5. V. cinerea. 



1. Vernonia Kawakamii HAY ATA. (PL IV.) Gen. Ind. Fl. Formos. p. 41. 



2. Vernonia Andersoni CLAKKE ; HAYATA I.e. p. 41. 



2 a. Vernonia Andersoni CLARKE var. albipappa HAYATA n. v. Scau- 

 dens, rami fulvescentes dense pubescentcs. Folia lanceolata vel oblanceolata 

 8-10.cni. longa 2-3 cm. lata apice acuta ad suminum aristata basi cuncata margine 



