240 Lxxviii. COMPOSITJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Vernonia. 



88. V. solanifolla, Benth. in Land. Journ. Bot. i. 486 ; Kew Journ. iv. 

 232 ; Fl, Ilongk. 169 ; subarboreous, branches leaves beneath and panicles 

 densely softly woolly, leaves petioled ovate-oblong or elliptic obtuse or acute 

 entire or sinuate-toothed base rounded or cordate, heads 3-5-flowered in open 

 large terminal panicles, invol. bracts few small ovate obtuse woolly, achenes 

 8-10-ribbed glabrous, pappus yellowish persistent with short outer bristles. 

 "V. Kurzii, Clarice Comp. Ind. 24 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 80. 



Mabtaban and Pegu ; in dry forests, Kurz. — Distbib. China. 



A large weak shrub or small tree, which I cannot distinguish from the densely 

 woolly form of F. arborea, except by the leaves being usually tomentose above with a 

 shorter very stout petiole, and the presence of the outer pappus bristles. 



39. V. volkamerlaBfolia, DC. Prodr. v. 82; a tree, branchlets and 

 panicles pubescent or tomentose, leaves large petioled obovate or obovate-oblong 

 or lanceolate acute or obtuse glabrous above pubescent on the nerves beneath 

 entire or subserrate, heads 3-10 flowered in large terminal leafless panicles, invol. 

 bracts puberulous few linear-oblong obtuse, achenes 10-ribbed nearly glabrous, 

 pappus whitish persistent. Kurz in Journ. As. Soe. 1877, ii. 202. V. punduana, 

 DC. Prodr. v. 32. V. acuminata, DC. I. c. excl. syn. ; Clarhe Comp. Ind. 22; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 79. V. punduana, vulgaris and volkamerisefolia, Steetz in 

 Peters Mosamh. Bot. 846. V. cuspidata, Buek in Index Candoll. ii. 5. Conyza 

 volkamerisefolia and punduana, Wall. Cat. 3001, 3035. 



SiKKTM Himalaya, Khasia and Jaintba Mts. ; alt. 2-5000 ft. Mishmi Hills, 

 Griffith. BiHMA, Kurz. 



A small tree; branches robust, terete. Leases 5-12 by lJ-4 in., rather thin, 

 narrowed into very short petioles. Heads very numerous, ^-f in diara. ; peduncles 

 short or long, stout, with small bracts at the base; invol. bricts \ in.; corolla gla- 

 brous. Achenes | in., with a few scattered short hairs ; pappus | in., very persistent, 

 outer hairs few short. 



40. V. travancorica, Hook. f. ; a tree, branchlets and inflorescence 

 hoary-pubescent, leaves shortly petioled obovate obtuse sinuate towards the tip, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, heads 6-6-flowered in terminal leafless panicles, 

 invol. bracts few short oblong obtuse silky, achenes lO-ribbed glandular, pappus 

 white deciduous. V. volkameriae folia, Beddome, Fl. SyU. t. 225 (not of DC). 



Teavancore, Beddome. 



Closely alliedto V. vblkameritsjolia, but differing from it and from V. arborea in 

 the silky invol. bracts, and very deciduous quite white pappus. — I have seen but one 

 specimen ; it exactly accords with Beddome's figure. 



41. V. talaumlfolia, Hook. f. §• T. Serb. Ind. Or. ; a tree, branches 

 very thick, leaves beneath and inflorescence puberulous or nearly glabrous, leaves 

 very large shortly petioled obovate or oblanceolate subacute entire or sinuate- 

 toothed, heads 8-20-flowered in very large irregularly branched terminal 

 panicles, invol. bracts ovate obtuse, achenes deeply 10-ribbed glabrous, pappus 

 red, outer hairs slender. Clarke Comp. Ind. 25. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; alt. 1-4000 ft., J. B. H. S[ T. T. Bhotan, Clarke. Assam, 

 MouSters. Mishmi Hills, Griffith. 



Much the largest Indian species. Branches as thick as the little finger. Leaves 

 16 by 6 in. and under, very coriaceous, glabrous, shining and reticulated on both sur- 

 faces, or pubescent on the nervfis beneath ; petiole J in. Heads f in. diam., sessile ■ 

 o 1 the long dichotomous divaricating branches of the panicle ; invol. bracts | in., 

 glabrate ; curoUa glabrous. Achenes l in. ; pappus nearly \ in. 



42. V. Parishil, Hook. f. ; branches robust and inflorescence finely 

 tomentose, leaves large shortly petioled oblanceolate subacute obscurely toothed 

 reticulate minutely pubescent above more so beneath, midrib closely pubescent 



