tifi?felfy adpressed hairs : panicles much branched, divaricate, hear- 

 ing 3-5 few-flowered capittiies on the ultimate branches : scales o£ 

 the involucre ovate, somewhat acute, glabrous. 



Neilgherries. ' 



(2) V. ARBOREA. (Ham.) 



Ident. Ham. in Linn. Soc. Trans. XIV. p. 218.— Dec. prod. 

 "V. p.22. 



Syn. Conyza arborea, Wall. Cat. No. 2. 



Spec. Char, Arboreous : leaves petioled, ovate-lanceojate, acu- 

 minated, quite entire, glabrous, somewhat scurfy below and on the 

 petiole: cymes terminal, much-branched, panicle-shaped, with an 

 angular racfais and scurfy branchlets : scales of the involucre ovate- , 

 oblong, afterwards opening : achsenium turbinate, glabrous : bristles 

 oi the pappus one series, equal : florets purple, 6-7 in one capi- 

 tulum. 



Goalparai 



fS) V. PHYSAilFOLIA. { Dec.) '. 



tden% Dec. prod. V. p. 24. — Wight's Contrib. p. 6. 



Syn. Conyza cinerea, Wall. Cat. No. 3008. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, striated : leave* 

 petioled, broad-ovate, repandly toothed, obtuse, pubescent above, 

 below and on the stem ashy-tomentose : qorynib lax : heads of 

 flowers pedicelled : scales of the involucre linear-lance6late, villous , 

 at the back. 



Madras. 



(4) V. ciNERj-A. (Less.)^ 



Jdent. Less, in Linn. 1829. p. 291. — Wight's Contrib. p. 6.— 

 J)ec. prod. V. p. 24. 



Syn. Conyza cinerea, Linn. — Serratula cinerea, Soxb. jl. Ind. 

 III. p. 406. — Conyza mollis, Witld. — Cacalia rotundifolia, WiLld.^ 

 fhyt.ll. ip. 6. 



Engrav. Bnrm. Zeyl. t. 96. f. 1.— Rumph. Arab. VI. t. 14. f. 

 1— Pluk. t. 177. f. 2.— Rheede Mai. X. t. 64. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, somewhat hoary 

 with short hairs : leaves petioled, lower ones somewhat rounded, 

 the rest obovate-oblong, somewhat toothed, ashy-white below : 

 corymb lax, dichotomous : heads of 'flowers peduncled : scales of 

 the involucre linear-lanceolate, acuminated, somewhat hairy out- 

 side : flowers small, light purple. 



Common throughout the country, flowering from January to 

 A.ptil. (' 



