Vernoma.] lxxtiii. COMPOSEtj). (J. D. Hooker.) 233 



serrate, heads 30-flowered large "fascicled in terminal panicled corj'mbs, invol. 

 bracts linear obtuse and apiciJate, or acuminate or pimgent outermost subulate, 

 achenes sparsely hairy, pappus dirty white or reddish. Kurz in Jawi-n. As. Soc. 

 1877, ii. 200. V. aspera, DC. Prodr. v. 31, not of Ham. ; WaU. Cat. 2922, excl. 

 A. ; Clarke Comp. 2nd. 17. Eupatorium asperum, Eo.rb. Hort. Beng. 61 ; Fh 

 Ind. iii. 416. E. pyramidale, Bon Prodr. 170. Xipholepis aspera, Steetz in 

 Peters Moaamh. Bot. 346 ? excl. syn. 



Westekn Himalaya; Kutnaon, Eoyle, Edgeworth. Chota-Nagpoke, and Centhai 

 India, alt. 1-4000 ft. Behab, J. D. H. Cokcan, Law (perhaps cult.); Biema, 

 at Bhamo, on dry hills, Griffith. 



More branched than V. teres • leaves often narrowed into a slender petiole, acumi- 

 nate and deeply serrate ; heads smaller, very numerous ; invol. bracts fewer and 

 broader, inner J in., quite linear ; achenes as large, less hairy and only between the 

 ribs ; outer pappus hairs often absent. 



16. V. peninsularis, Clarke mss. ; roughly pubescent, stem flexuous 

 ribbed, leaves petioled elliptic acute serrate, heads 20-3(J-flowered few corymbose, 

 invol. bracts oblong with very long slender often recurved awns outer filiform 

 squarrose, achenes glabrous, pappus pale reddish. V. bracteata, var. peninsu- 

 laris, Clarke Comp. Ind. 18. Decaneuron silhetense, Wt. Ic. t. 1083. 



Tbavancoke, at Courtallam, Wight. 



Stem nearly simple, deeply furrowed. Leaves 2-4 by li-2 in., rather membranous, 

 scabrid above. Heads J in. diam. ; outer invol. bracts ^-J in. ; awns often as long as 

 the lamira, woolly. Achenes s,ji&. pappus as in V. hractiata. 



16. V. anceps, Clarke mss. ; shrubby, branches slender terete and corymbs 

 brown-pubescent, leaves petioled lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-lanceolate acu- 

 minate distantly serrulate puberulous on both surfaces or beneath only, heads 

 30-40-flowered in open corymbs, inner invol. bracts short oblong-lanceolate acute 

 outer subulate, achenes strongly 4^5-rihbed puberulous, pappus dirty white, outer 

 a ring of short paleaceous scales. V. Wightiana, var. /3, Thviaites Enum. 160. 



Ceylon ; Adam's Peak, Tkwaites. 



Branches woody, as thick as a crow- or goose-quill. Leaves 2-3 by ^-| in. 

 Achenes ^ in., twice as long as the invol. bracts. — This, Thwaites, considering the 

 close similarity of their floral characters, does not venture to separate from V. 

 Wightiana ; but the foliage, &e., is so entirely different in form, membranous consist- 

 ence, toothing, and glabrousness, that I cannot but agree with Mr. Clarke in keeping 

 it distinct ; the corollas are nearly glabrous. 



17. V. revoluta, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 218; dwarf, puberulous, 

 leaves sessile linear apiculate margins revolute, heads 30-40-flowered subsolif ary, 

 invol. bracts few broadly oblong-lanceolate acuminate, achenes hairy terete, 

 pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 22. V. oligooephala, JEdgew. in Trans. I/inn. 

 Soc. XX. 63. 



Westeen Himalaya; Kumaon and Garwhal, Boyle, Falconer, &c. Buotan, 

 Griffith. 



A perennial woody-rooted herb, branched from the base; stems 2-6 in., ascending 

 or erect, slender, angled and grooved. Leaves erect, 1 by i-^ in., with a strong mid- 

 rib and strongly revolute entire margins. Hiads J in. diam. ; peduncles striate ; 

 bracts subulate or ; invol. bracts puberulous ; outermost very narrow, subulate, often 

 recurred ; inner i in. long, -scarious ; corolla-lobes hairy. Achenes (unripe) \ in., 

 sparingly hairy; pappus ^ in. long, persistent, outer hairs 0. 



** Heads small, about \ in. long, numerous or few, corymbose. 



t Annual; achenes terete, not angled or ribbed. 



18. Vi cinerea, Less, in Linncea, iv. 291, and vi. 673 ; herbaceous, hoary- 



