80 : COMPOSIT. [ Vernonia. 
glabrescent, beneath shortly pubescent all over ; flower-heads sessile 
or shortly peduncled, cymose, middling-sized, forming a greyish or 
tawny-pubescent ample panicle at the end of the branchlets; in- 
volucre-bracts gradually larger upwards, up to 2 lines long, concave- 
oblong, rigidly coriaceous, acute, slightly keeled, appressed-pubes- 
cent outside ; florets lilac, 3 to 10 ; achenes ribbed, glabrous or nearly 
so, the pappus white or whitish. 
: Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier hill and the Eng forests of the Martaban . 
hills; Ava, Kakhyen hills, at elevations from 2,000 to 4,000 ft.—-Fl. Feb.- 
March; Fr. Apr.—l.—SS.= , 
Remarxs.—Wood whitish, turning pale brown, coarse, heavy, close-grained, 
rather hard, the heartwood narrow, dark-greyish brown, of a soft and almost 
cor. : 
2. V. arborea, Ham. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Madr. 135.—An evergreen 
tree 50-60 ft. high, the shoots tawny-pubescent ; leaves oblong to 
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to entire, membranous but thickly villous, especially beneath; flower- 
heads rather small, sessile and slenderly but shortly peduncled, 
: in. the 
- Has.—Not unfrequent in the diy hill forests of hills east " 
of Tounghoo, at 1,000 to 2,500 ft. elevation, freely pina, oe *< hil 
toungyas.— Fl. March. ; Fr. Apr.—1,—SS.— Meteo Snes De - 
4. V. eleagnifolia, DC.— Soe 
the shoots silvery — An evergreen, large, scandent —_ . 
ry; leaves linear to linear-oblong, acute at — : 
