476 lOUBNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Composite. 



77. Vernonia Cinerea Less, in Linnasa, iv., 291, et vi., 673; 

 Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iii,, 233. Serrakila cinerea Roxb., Hort. 

 Beng, 60; Flor. Ind., iii., 406. Gonyza cinerea Linn., Sp. PI. 

 862. 



Ameni j Hume ! Anderut ; Alcoch ! Kiltan ; Fleming ! Kadamun; 

 Fleming ! Akati ; Fleming ! Minikoi ; Fleming I 

 A cosmopolitan weed of waste places and fields. 



78. Adenostemma Viscosum Forst., Nov. Gen. n. 15. ; Clarke, 

 Oorap. Ind. 28 ; Hook f., Flor. Brit. Ind, iii., 242. Ageratum 

 aquaUcum Roxb., Hort. Beng. 61 ; Flor. Ind., iii., 416. 



Kalpeni ; Alcock ! Minikoi ; Fleming ! 



A cosmopolitan tropical weed of fields and waysides which also 

 not infrequently occurs on sea-shores growing among the ocean 

 drift at high tide-mark, thus suggesting the possibility of introduc- 

 tion by the sea. The specimens from Kalpeni are probably referable 

 to Clarke's variety reticulata {^Adenostemma reticulatmn DC. in 

 "Wight, Oontrib. 8) ; they have ovate leaves (the largest being 

 9-11 in. long and 3|-4 in. across), reticulate; the achenes are 

 elongate and sparsely warted. This variety is characteristic of 

 South India and Ceylon. The Minikoi specimen has no leaves, but 

 the achenes are precisely like those in the Kalpeni specimens. 



79. Ageratum conyzoides Linn., Sp. PL 839; Hook, f., Flor. 

 Brit. End., iii., 243. A. cordifolium Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 415. 



Ameni; Hume! Anderut; Alcock! Kalpeni; Alcock! Kiltan; 

 Fleming ! Minikoi ; very plentiful, Fleming ! 



A weed of cultivation, originally American, but now cosmopolitan 

 in the tropics. Though so common in the Archipelago, it is not 

 recorded from any of the uninhabited islands which would indicate 

 that its wide and rapid dispersal is due altogether to unintentional 

 human action. 



80. Blumea laciniata DC, Prodr., v., 436; Hook, f., Flor. 

 Brit. Ind., iii., 264. Conyza laciniata Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 427. 



Kiltan ; Fleraing ! Akati ; Fleming ! 



A weed of waste places distributed throughout S. E. Asia. 



81. Eclipta alba Hassk. in Miq., Flor. Ind. Bat., ii., 65 ; Clarke, 

 Comp. Ind. 134; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iii., 304. F. prostrata 



