Leucomeris.] COMPOSITR. 79 
gradually shorter; florets white, fragrant, nearly an inch long ; 
pappus pale tawny, 4 an in. long; achenes 4 an in. long, sulcate, 
densely appressed villous-silk-hairy. 
mae bee ge - the Eng forests of the Prome district.—Fl. 
Remarxs.— Wood soft, white, 
VERNONIA, Schreb. 
regular, the limb narrowly 5-cleft. Anthers sagittate at the base, 
the auricles blunt or acuminate, but not tailed, Style-branches 
subulate, shortly hairy. Achenes 8-10-ribbed, or rarely almost 4-5- 
leaves. Flower-heads terminal 
panicles, 
* Pappus dirty straw-coloured or whitish, 
X Trees or erect shrubs. 
© Leaves glabrous and glossy above, entire, the petiole 
slender, 1-14 in. long . ; = ‘ ‘ F 
aves more or less puberulous, pubescent or 
villous on both sides; the petiole strong and 
thickly pubescent. 
Leaves shortly pubescent, acute to acuminate, decurrent at the 
ac lesiatieg base; involucre-bracts 2 lin, long, slightly 
e 
V. arborea. 
° : ° ‘ = ° é . i . » V. acuminata, 
Leaves broadly ovate, acute, villous; involucre-bracts 1} lin. long, — 
few, plain, densely appressed SERADOEY..§ 6 5 4 nt Ve Re 
X Scandent shrubs; leaves linear to linear-oblong, 
silvery-silk-hairy beneath . . . . . Vi eleagnifolia. 
* * Pappus more or less tawny to red-brown coloured, Scan- 
sruos, 
Almost glabrous; flower-heads 5- (usually 10-) to 25-flowered ; 
achenes appressed-pilose . : Pets Bek - V. blan 
Leaves pubescent on the nerves beneath ; achenes quite glabrous . V. scandens. 
1. V. acuminata, DC. (V. volkameriefolia, DC. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 
Madr., t. 225).—An evergreen treelet (15—25 +3441), all parts 
shortly pubescent; bark 2-3 lin. thick, brittle, longitudinally and 
transversely cracked, ash-grey; cut brown, ryish ; leaves obovate 
to oblong-obovate, bluntish or tapering at the narrowed base and 
decurrent on the strong pubescent petiole of about 3-4 in. length, 
acute to shortly acuminate, }-1} ft. long, rigidly papery, above 
