26 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Heads numerous, "2 to '25 in. in diam., in loose terminal corym- 

 bose cymes . . . . . . . . . . 3. F. cinerea. 



1. Veenonia abboeea, Buch.-Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 218. 

 A tree, 30 to 60 feet high ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill or 

 thinner, at first covered, like the under surfaces of the leaves and 

 branches of the inflorescence, with short rusty tomentum, sometimes 

 glabrous or glabrescent. Leaves sub-coriaceous, entire, elliptic ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate ; 

 upper surface glabrous, or nearly so, except the midrib, the reticulations 

 minute and distinct ; main-nerves 8 to 14 pairs, spreading, interarching, 

 bold and distinct on the lower surface, more faint on the upper ; length 

 3-5 to 6 in. ; breadth 1-75 to 2-75 in. ; petioles -75 to 1"25 in., pubes- 

 cent. Heads 2- to 5-flowered, collected in large open terminal panicles 

 much longer than the leaves. Involucral bo-acts few, small, oblong,, 

 obtuse, less than half as long as the flowers, pubescent, concave, per- 

 sistent. Corolla glabrous, bluish. Cypselas not conspicuously ribbed, 

 short, truncate ; pappus in a single row, tuberculate, white tinged with 

 ochraceous, persistent. DC. Prod. V. 22 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 80;. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 23 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 239. Vernoiiia 

 javanica, Blumeana and celebica, DC. I.e. 21, 22 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 9, 10. Eupatornmi celehicimi and javanicum, Blume Bijdr. 903. 

 Conyza acuminata and arhorea, Wall. Cat. 3034a and 3074. 



Malacca : Griffith. Singapore : Lolh ; Biclley 2735, 2739, 9478 ; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 948, 949, 950. Penang : Curtis 2, 926. Negri Sem- 

 BiLAN : Bidley 10087. Selangor : Bidley. Perak : Wray 2240, 2442 ; 

 King's Collector, many Numbers ; Scortechini. — Disteib. Ceylon,, 

 Malay Archipelago, Philippines, China. 



2. Vbrnonia chinensis. Less, in Linnaea, VI. 674. An erect annual 

 with divaricate, softly puberulous to tomentose, angled branches. Leaves 

 alternate, sessile or petiolate, membranous, ovate elliptic elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate or oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, sub-serrate or entire.. 

 Heads few, -35 in. in diam., in lax, few-branched, axillary and terminal, 

 open puberulous cymes, on slender peduncles longer than the leavesr 

 15- to 30-flowered. Livolucral bracts not numerous, lanceolate, awned 

 or acute, usually at first pubescent outside, inside glabrous, shining,. 

 1-nerved ; longer than the glabrous or glabrescent corollas. Cyijselas 

 less than 1 in. long, 4- or 5-ribbed, glabrous. Paioinis scanty, white.: 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 78; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 235. V. albicans, 

 DC. in Wight Contrib. 6 ; Prod. V. 26 {in part). Cyanopis pubescens 

 and C. villosa, DC. Prod. V. 69. Conyza chinensis, Lamk. Diet. II. 83 

 (not of Linn.). C. punctulata. Wall. Cat. 2995. Eupatorium menthce- 

 folium, Wall. Cat. Cynanthillium villosum and C. pubescens, Blume- 



