1877.] Knowledge of the Burmese Mora. 201 



Lessing called two different plants by the above name, but according 

 to the laws of priority Don's name has precedence, and the Brazilian plant 

 must be called either V. ruhricaulis, Less, or V. plantaginoides, Less., two 

 names for the same plant published two years previously to Lessing's Brazi- 

 lian V. squarrosa. 



7. V. ASPERA, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV (1825) 219, vix Less., 

 nee DC. Clark, etc. (V. multijlora, Less, in Linn. 1831. 642 ; DC. Prod. V. 

 31 ; Decaneuron diver gens^ DC. in Wight Contr. 8 and Prod. Y. 68 ; 

 Wight Icon. t. 1084 ; V. divergens, Clark. Comp. Ind. 64 ; Eitpatorium 

 diver gens, Eoxb. PL Ind. III. 415 and Icon. MS. XIII. t. 23). 



Var. ^. NiLGHEEUTEN'sis, (V. Nilglierryensis, DC. Prod. Y. 32 ; 

 Wight Icon. t. 1078 ; F. aspera, Less, in Linn. 1831. 643 ?), more pubes- 

 cent, the pappus white or nearly so. 



Hab. Yar. a. frequent in all leaf- shedding forests, along river- sides, 

 etc. all over Burma, from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenasserim ; freely 

 SiDringing up in deserted toungyas and also in the savannahs. — PL CS. ; 

 Pr. HS. 



8. Y. SALIGNA, DC. Prod. Y. 33 ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 13. (F. longi- 

 caulls, DC. Prod. Y. 33). 



Yar. a. GENriNA, corymbs more or less panicled ; involucre-bracts more 

 acute to mucronate-acuminate, more glabrous. 



Yar. /3. Pegueis'SIS (F. Fegiiensis, Clark. Comp. Ind. 13), a shade- 

 form, panicles spreading, terminal, leafless ; involucre-bracts more or less 

 acute, usually more glabrous. 



Hab. Yar. a. Ava, Khakyen hills (J. Anderson) ; Chittagong, Seeta- 

 khund hill ; var. yS. in the upper-mixed forests of the southern parts of 

 the Pegu Yomah.— PL CS. ; Fr. C. and HS. 



9. Y. KiNaii, Clark. Comp. Ind. 12. 



Hab. Here and there in the tropical and moister upper-mixed forests 

 of the southern slopes of the Pegu Yomah, and in those of Martaban east 

 of Tounghoo ; also Ava, Khakyen hills (J. Anderson). — PL Fr. CS. 



10. Y. ATTENUATA, DC. Prod. Y. 33 ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 12. 



Yar. a. genfii^a, flower-heads about half an inch across, longer or 

 shorter peduncled and usually in the axils of the leaves. 



Yar. p. JUis'CEA, judging from the material at hand, the whole plant 

 seems to be transformed into an ample leafless panicle, the flower-heads only 

 half the size, all sessile and solitary, in very elongate slender poor spikes ; 

 achenes only a line long or somewhat longer, the pappus pale rufous. 



Hab. Yar. a. Upper Tenasserim, Moulmein (Falconer) ; var. p. ad- 

 joining Siamese province of Kadburi (Teysmann). — PI. Fr. CS. ; Fr. C. 

 and HS. 



Yar. ^. may form a distinct species, but there are no leaves. 

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