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Gen. Cuan. Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants: leaves of va- 
rious shapes on the same specimen: flowers corymbose, capitate or 
panicled : calyx-limb involute during flowering, afterwards unrol- 
ling .and forming a deciduous pappus of many plumose bristles : 
tube of the corolla obconical or evlindrical, equal or gibbous, with- 
out a spur at the base; limb obtusely 5-cleft: fruit 1- celled, i- 
seeded. 
(1) V. Brunontrana. (W.§ AD 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 443. 
Engrav. Wight’s leon. t. 1048. 
Sprc. Cuan. Herbaceous, glabrous: stems erect with 1-2 pair 
- of leaves:near the root, and. another small pair about. the middie, 
slightly hirsute on the knots : leaves somewhat fleshy, lower ones 
quite entire, ovate, long-petioled, the radical ones often_emarginate 
-at the base, uppermost pair somewhat sessile, narrow-oblong, entire 
or toothed on the margin: corymb terminal, trichotomous, panicled, 
with a pair of leafy bracts similar to the uppermost leaves sublent- 
ing the principal branches: fruit linear-oblong, glabrous. 
Common in pasture lands, on the Neilgherries, flowering in the 
rainy season. 
(2) V. Lescuznaurti. ( Dee.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 444.—Dec. prod. 1V. p. 640. 
Enagrav. -Wight’s Icon. t, 1044. 
Spec. Cuan. Herbaceous; stem erect, with the knots hairy = 
.Tadical. leaves ‘petioled, ovate, obtuse, crenated, hirsute on_ both 
Sides: stalk-leaves remote, small, sessile, the uppermost cut pin- 
nately into 3-5 linear lobes, the odd one the longest: carymb cau- 
tracted : fruit: villous. 
Pasture lands on the Neilgherties. 
(3) V. Hooxertana. (W. § A.) 
Ident. W.&A., prod. I. p. 444. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. IT. t. 129. 
Srec. Cuar. Herbaceous: stem erect, simple, with the knots 
slightly hirsute: radical leaves on very long petioles, pinnated with 
5-7 leaflets ; lower leaflets oblong, small, odd one cordate-ovate and 
repand-toothed, all hirsute on the margins: cauline leaves few and 
distant, the lower ones resembling the radical but much smaller and 
with the add.leaflet oblong, uppermost pair sessile, narrow-oblong 
and toothed: corymb panicle-shaped, lax: fruit lanceolate, shortly 
villous, 
Neilgherries. 
