Yemonia.'] lxxtiii. coMPOSixiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 239 



Oonyza extensa, Wall. Cat. 3016. Gymnanthemum extensum, Steetz in Peters 

 Mosamh. Bot. 337. 



Central and Eastern Teopical Himalata ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, J. D. H. ; 

 Bhotan, Griffith. 



Erect, 6-8 ft, branched. Leaves 6-10 by 2^-3 in., narrowed into a Bhort or long 

 petiole, membranous. Heads ^ in. diam., longer than broad ; peduncles Very slender ; 

 invol. scales not numerous, hard, closely imbricate, pubernlous, inner \ in. ; corolla 

 pubescent. Achmes J in. ; pappus | in., outer hairs few or 0. — Clarke likens this to 

 V. blanda, and suggests its being a variety of that plant, but the sharply serrate long 

 leaves are very different. 



36. V. pectlnlformis, JDC. in Wight Cmtrib. 2; Prodr. v. 31; 

 shrubby, branches glabrate pubescent scabrid villous or glandular, leaves 

 petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate serrate glabrous or scabrid above puberalous 

 pubescent or tomentose beneath usually many-nerved, heads 10-25-flowered in 

 short broad terminal corymbs, inner invol. bracts oblong obtuse or apiculate, 

 outer smaE acuminate, achenes glabrous, pappus dirty white or reddish. Arn. 

 Pugill. 27 ; Wight Ic. t. 1077. V. puncticulata, DC. Prodr. vii. 264. Lysi- 

 stemma pectiniforme, Steetz in Peters Mosamh. Bot. 343. 



NiLGHBBET Mts., alt. 8000 ft. Cetlon ; central province, alt. 6-7000 ft. Walker,^ 

 &c. 



Branches usually stout, ribbed and grooved. Leaves often close-set, 3-6 by 1-2^ 

 in., rigid, narrowed into the petiole, nerves 6-12 pair. Heads | in. diam., peduncles 

 short ; invol. bracts bard, concave, usually with rounded coloured tips, outer gradually 

 smaller, often subulate and recurved ; receptacle fimbriate ; corolla glabrous. 

 Achmes \ in. ; pappus | in long, outer hairs short, sometimes numerous, most red in 

 Ceylon specimens. 



37. V. arborea, Ham. in Trans. Linn, Soc, xiv. 218 ; a tree, branches 

 and corymbs pubescent tomentose or woolly, leaves large petioled elliptic or 

 elliptic-ovate acuminate quite entire glabrous or beneath pubescent, base acute 

 rounded or cordate, heads 1-6-flowered small in large leafless terminal panicles, 

 invol. bracts very small oblong obtuse, achenes compressed or 3-4-gonous ob- 

 scurely 8-10-ribbed puberulous, pappus white or yellowish hairs persistent all 

 equal. DC. Prodr. v. 22 ; Kurz Foi: Fl. ii. 80. V. javanica, DC. I. c. ; Bedd. 

 For. Man. 125. V. Blumeana and celebica, DC. I. c. 22. Eupatorium celebicum 

 and javanicum, Blume Bijd. 903. Oonyza acuminata and arborea, Wall. Cat. 

 3034 A., 3074. ? Gynmanthemiun acuminatum, Steetz. in Peters Mosamh, Bot. 

 336. 



Assam, the Khasia Mts., Sllhet, Cachae, Biema, Tenasseeim, Malacca, and 

 SiNGAPOEE. Westeek Peotmsdla ou the Ghats, from the Concan, southwards. 

 Ceylon, ascending to 5000 ft. — Disteib. Java, Borneo, Philippines. 



A large shrub or small tree. Leaves 5-8 by 2-3 in., coriaceous, quite glabrous ia 

 northern specimens, more or less pubescent in Malayan ; petiole ^-1 in. Heads | in. 

 diam. ; involucre small ; bracts few, j^ in long, tomentose ; corolla glabrous. Achenes 

 ■^ in., pale ; pappus ^ in., hairs few, all equal and in one row. — A Philippine Island's 

 var. has branches inflorescence and leaves beneath densely clotted with white or buff 

 velve'ty pubescence. The Malacean and Silhet forms have the leaves usually quite 

 glabrous, the Tenasserim ones pubescent, the Ceylon densely pubescent. 



Vae. ? Wightiana; branches leaves beneath and inflorescence very densely woolly, 

 petioles usually shorter and stout, heads often 1-fld. V. monosis, DC. in Wight 

 Contrih, 6; Ic, t. 1085; Clarke Comp, Ind. 24; Bedd, Fl, Sylv, t 225. Conyza 

 Wightiana, Wall. Cat, 3028. — Western Peninsula, on the Ghats, from the Concan 

 southwards. — I can scarcely doubt this being a form of V. arborea, with which it 

 perfectly agrees in the form of the leaves, heads, achenes, and pappus, but the 

 petioles are usually very short and thick, as in V. solanifolia, sometimes howevCT 

 long and slender as figujed by Wight. 



