Vernonia.] Lxxvtii. COMPOSITJ!. (J. D. Hooker,)- 241 



on both surfaces, heads corymhose in a large panicle, inyol. bracts oblong her- 

 baceous obtuse or acute, acbenes glandular, pappus whitfi.' 



MouLMBiN ; hills on the Attran, Parish. 



A good deal resembling V. Lobbii, but the leaves are much more pubescent beneath, 

 the heads form a large terminal branched panicle, nearly a foot long; the invol. 

 bracts are herbaceous and very different in shape, and the achenes are not tomentose. 



43. V. scandens, DC. Pi-odr. v. 32 ; climbing, branches slender and 

 inflorescence glabrous or pubescent, leaves petioled ovate elliptic or lanceolate 

 acuminate quite entire glabrous or pubescent beneath, heads 5-10-flowered in 

 long leafy terminal panicles all pediceUed, invol. bracts ovate or linear-lanceolate 

 acute or obtuse, achenes compressed glabrous deeply 10-ribbed, pappus red 

 outer hairs few short slender. Clarke Comp. Ind. 26 ; £krz For. Fl, ii, 81. 

 Oonyza scandens. Wall. Cfei. 3060. V. vagans, DC. I.e.; Clarice I.e. Gym- 

 nanthemum scandens and vagans, Steetz in Petm's Mosamb. Bot. 3,38. 



SiKKiM Himalaya and the Kuasia Mts. ; ascending to 4000 ft. Assam, Silhbt, 

 and BiBMA. 



A rambling climber, branches woody. Leaves 2J-4 by 1-2J in., rather thin ; 

 petiole slender. Heads i-^ in. diam.; pedicels slender; invol. bracts very vari- 

 able in breadth, puberulous, inner | in. long ; corolla glabrous. Achenes |-i in. 

 long ; pappus between i-^ in. long. — I cannot distinguish between V. scatidens and 

 V. vagans, which in their- extreme forms differ, tbe^ former in the broader blunter 

 invol. bracts, and I think longer achenes, but I find achenes of j and | in. in the 

 same specimen. 



44. V. blanda, DC. Prodr. v. 32; a rambling shrub, slender branches 

 and leaves glabrous, panicles puberulous, leaves petioled elliptic acuminate at 

 both ends quite entire, heads 10-26-flowered in elongate branched terminal 

 panicles, invol. bracts linear-oblong acute puberulous, receptacle glabrous, 

 achenes pubescent 10-ribbed, pappus red outer hairs few. Clarke Comp. Ind. 

 25; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 202. excl. syn.; For. Fl. ii. 81. V. 

 blandula, Clai ke I. c. 26. Oonyza blanda. Wall. Cat. 3033. 



Maetaban and Tknasseeim ; on the Saluen river, Wallioh. Pegu, Scott. 

 Very similar to V. scandens, but with pubescent achenes. 



45. V. Andersoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 27 ; scandent, branches leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence pubescent or tomentose, leaves petioled ovate acute or 

 acuminate quite entire finely reti:ulated, heads 5-15-flowe*ed in axillary and 

 terminal loose panicles, invol. bracts small ovate obtuse, receptacle hairy, acbenes 

 deeply 10-ribbed flattened puberulous, pappus red outer hairs 0. V. Cumingiana, 

 Bemth. Fl. Sangk. 170 (not of Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 333). 



Upper Assam ; Naga hills. Masters. Bibma, Griffith. Tenasserim, Heifer. — 

 DiSTRiB. Hongkong. 



Very similar to large-leaved states of V. scandens with obtuse invol. bracts, but 

 the leaves are thinly leathery, the nerves beautifully reticulated, the achenes puberu- 

 lous, and the receptacle covered with deciduous fulvous hairs. Invol. bracts ^„ in., 

 narrowly oblong, very obtuse, ne irly glabrous. Achenes (in Hongkong spEcimdn) | 

 in. long ; pappus upwards of 3 in. — Bentham is mistakm in 'referring the Hongkong 

 plant to ,his K Cumingiana of the Philippines, vphich has a naked receptncle and 

 far more numerous flowers in a head; as is Kurz (Journ. As. Soo. 1877, ii. 202) in re- 

 ferring V. Andersoni to blanda, 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. | 



? V. (EupATORiuM^PEOTiNATUM, Wall. Cat. 3172.) from the Nilgherry Mts. ; there 

 is no specimen of this in the 'Wailichian Herbarium. 



V. ('Decam^uron LiLACiNDM, Dalg. S[ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 314) ; there is no specimen 

 pf this in ibalzell's Herbarium, and I fail to identify it by the dtscription. 



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