244 Lxxviii. coMPOSiTiE. (J. D. Hooker.) lEv^atorium. 



DC. I. c. 179 ; Clarke I. c. 83. E. Lamljertianum and Tiscosum, Wedl. Cat. 

 3287, 3288. E. dicline, Edgew.' in Tram. Linn. Soc. xx. 63. E. Simonsii, 

 Clarke I. c. 32. 



Tehpbhate Himalaya; almndant from 3-11,000 ft. Khasia Mts. ; alt. 3-6000 

 ft. BiRMi. — DisTRiB. Europe and Temp. Asia. 



A taller usually coarser plant than E. longicaule, -with larger heads — To this 

 species many described ones are referable. Of E. Lambertiamim, there is only one 

 specimen in Wallich's Herbarinm, but there are many in Mr. Clarke's, all from the 

 Khasia ; it differs in the more rigid strongly triply-nerved leaves, that are also 

 strongly reticulated beneath, but passes into the commoner Khasian fomi of E. 



EXCLUDED AND SITPPEBSSED SPECIES. 



El Atapana, Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 3; DC. Prodr. v. 169. Cjanopis ? eriger- 

 oidea, DC. in Wight Contrib. 7 (not. V. erigeroides, DO.) is an American plant, 

 introduced into the Calcutta and other gardens. 



E. BiRMANTOtTM, DC. Prodr. V. 179 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 34, is a Japan plant, not 

 different from E. cawnalmmm. 



E. FiNLAYSONiAiTDM, Wall Cat. 7133; DC. Prodr. v. 179 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 

 84, from Finlayson's Herbarium, is E. cannahinum. 



E. LONBiOADiLE, DC. Prodr. V. 178; it is impossible to say what this is. Do 

 GandoUe's description does not agree Trith that of the plant cited under it (Conyza 

 longicaidis. Wall. ; Milkania ? longicaulis. Wall.). 



E. ODORATUM, lAnn. ; DC. Prodr. v. 143 ; Clarke Cbmp\ Ind. 30, is a West Indian 

 species, cultivated, but very rarely, in India. 



E. POLTAMTHUM, Wall. Cat. 3171 ; from Herb. Wight. There is no specimen 

 of this in the Wallichian Herbarium, and it is impossible to say what it may have 

 been. * 



E. suAVEoLENs, Wall. Cat. 3290, from the banks of the Irawaddy at Seguen ; 

 there is no specimen of this in the Wallichian Herbarium. 



10. IWXKANIA, Willd. 



Shruljs, or erect or twining herbs. Leaves opposite. Heads small, spiked 

 racemed or panicled, homogamous, usually 4-flowered. Involucre oHong ; 

 bracts 4, narrow, with often a smaller outer one ; receptacle narrow, naked. 

 Corollas aU equal, regular, tubular, tube slender; limb campaniulate, 6-fid. 

 Anthers appendiculate, base obtuse. Style-arms long, acute. Achenes truncate, 

 5-angled ; pappus-hairs numerous, 1-2-seriate, scabrid, often connate at the 

 base. — DiSTBiB. About 60 species, all American, one of them cosmopolitan. 



1. XtX. scandens, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. v. 199 ; climbing, glabrous or 

 puberuloua, leaves long-petioled ovate acute or acuminate base rounded cordate 

 or truncate crenate or angled, sometimes villous beneath, heads 4-flowered 

 corymbose terminating lateral branches, nchenes glabrous glandular, pappus 

 reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 34. M. volubilia arid M. chenopodifolisC, Willd. ; 

 DC. I. c. 199 and 201. Eupatorium scandens, Linn, ; Jaeq. Ic. t. 169. 



Eastern Assam, Clarke; Duphla hills, Nutt'all. Birma and Malay Peninsula 

 from Tenasserim to Singapore. — Distrib. Siam, Malayan and Philippine Islands. 



Tribe HI.— ASTXSROXDE^. 

 11. SOZiXDAGO, Linn. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves alternate. Heads small, often in scorpioid cymes, 

 beterogamous, rayed, yellow ; ray-fl. few, 1-seriate, $ , ligulate ; disk-fl. tubular, 

 5-fid. Involuci-e oblong or campanulate; bracts many-seriate, coriaceous; 

 receptacle small, usually' pitted. Anthes'-bases obtuse. Styl^armi of § 



