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whitish. 
Has.—Tenasserim, apparently frequent about Moulmein, Mergui.—Fl. Jan.- 
to March; Fr. March to May. 
5. V. blanda, DC.—An evergreen scandent or rarely almost 
erect shrub, the shoots sparingly and minutely pubescent ; leaves 
elliptically lanceolate to ovate, acute at the base, on a slender petiole 
3-4.lin. long, finely acuminate, 3-4 and occasionally up to 54 in. 
long, membranous, entire, glabrous or indistinctly puberulous on the 
nerves beneath ; flower-heads rather large, shortly peduncled, form- 
ing shortly pubescent poor cymes at the end of axillary shoots and 
collected into panicles at the end of the branchlets ; Involucre-bracts 
humerous, in several rows, gradually larger from below, linear, 
nearly 4 lin. long, acute, ciliolate on the margins; florets blue; 
achenes pilose, ribbed, the pappus tawny. 
Has.—Rather frequent in jungles and hill toungyas of Peeu and 
Martaban ; Upper Tension eT : J “tls ALE pa pg mee Wet, 
6. V. scandens, DC.— An> evergreen scandent shrub, the 
younger branchlets shortly pubescent ; leaves elliptically to broadly 
and ovate-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a more or less puberulous 
5 lin. i 
branous, puberulous on the principal nerves beneath; flower-heads 
somewhat smaller than those of the preceding species, shortly pedun- 
cled, forming small panicles at the end of the axillary shortly 
margins ; florets blue ; receptacle hispid to almost glabrous ; achenes 
quite glabrous, the pappus tawny-coloured, 7 
Has.—Pegu; Ava. 
MICROGLOSSA, DC. 
Flower-heads heterogamous, the florets all fertile, the outer 
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