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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Heads numerous, *2 to '25 in. in diam., in loose terminal corym- 
bose cymes . . . . • • • • .. 3. V. cinerea. 
1. Vernonia arborea, Buch.-Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 218. 
A tree, 30 to 60 feet high ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill or 
thinner, at first covered, like the under surfaces of the leaves and 
branches of the inflorescence, with short rusty tomentum, sometimes 
glabrous or glabrescent. Leaves sub-coriaceous, entire, elliptic ovate or 
ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate ; 
upper surface glabrous, or nearly so, except the midrib, the reticulations 
minute and distinct ; main-nerves 8 to 14 pairs, spreading, interarching, 
bold and distinct on the lower surface, more faint on the upper ; length 
3-5 to 6 in. ; breadth 1-75 to 2-75 in. ; petioles -75 to 125 in., pubes- 
cent. Heads 2- to 5-flowered, collected in large open terminal panicles 
much longer than the leaves. Involucral bracts few, small, oblong, 
obtuse, less than half as long as the flowers, pubescent, concave, per- 
sistent. Corolla glabrous, bluish. Cypselas not conspicuously ribbed, 
short, truncate ; pappus in a single row, tuberculate, white tinged with 
ochraceous, persistent. DC. Prod. V. 22 ; Kurz Por. FI. Burm. II. 80; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 23 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 239. Vernonia 
javanica, Blumeana and celebica, DC. l.c. 21, 22 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 
II. 9, 10. Eupatorium celebicum and javanicum, Blume Bijdr. 903. 
Conyza acuminata and arborea, "Wall. Cat. 3034a and 3074. 
Malacca : Griffith. Singapore : Lobb ; Ridley 2735, 2739, 9478 ; 
Maingay (K.D.) 948, 949, 950. Penang : Curtis 2, 926. Negri Sem- 
bilan : Ridley 10087. Selangor : Ridley. Perak : Wray 2240, 2442; 
King's Collector, many Numbers ; Scortechini. — Distrib. Ceylon, 
Malay Archipelago, Philippines, China. 
2. Vernonia chinensis, Less, in Linnaea, VI. 674. An erect annual 
with divaricate, softly puberulous to tomentose, angled branches. Leaves 
alternate, sessile or petiolate, membranous, ovate elliptic elliptic-lan- 
ceolate or oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, sub-serrate or entire. 
Heads few, "35 in. in diam., in lax, few-branched, axillary and terminal, 
open puberulous cymes, on slender peduncles longer than the leaves> 
15- to 30-flowered. Involucral bracts not numerous, lanceolate, awned 
or acute, usually at first pubescent outside, inside glabrous, shining, 
1-nerved ; longer than the glabrous or glabrescent corollas. Cypselas 
less than 1 in. long, 4- or 5-ribbed, glabrous. Pappus scanty, white. 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 78; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 235. V. albicans, 
DC. in Wight Contrib. 6; Prod. V. 26 (in part). Cyanopis pubescens 
and C. villosa, DC. Prod. V. 69. Conyza chinensis, Lamk. Diet. II. 83 
(not of Linn.). C. punctulata, Wall. Cat. 2995. Eupatorium menthce- 
folium, Wall. Cat. Cynanthillium villosum and C. pubescens, Blume 
