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3 mm. diametro ; umbellulae globosae 2 cm. diametro, 80-100-florae; 
pedicelli 0-7 mm. longi, complanati, margine albo-crispato-fimbriati ; 
bracteolae variabiles, aliae ad 3 cm. longae, apice pinnatifidae, lobulis, 
apiculatis, aliae minores loriformes margine albo-fimbriatae. Petala late 
obovata, apice lobulata, nonnunquam subacuminata, circ. 15 mm. 
lonffa. Frnctus maturus abest. 
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Tibet : — Dochen Plain (near Gyantze?). Coll. Capt. H. M. Stewart, 
I. M. S. August 1907. 
A species with remarkable bracts and peculiar pedicels. 
Vernonia Bourneana* W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species affinis Vernoniae Wightianae , Arn., speciei zevlanicae, sed 
foliis, tomento, bracteis, corolla, acheniis differt. 
Frutex. Caulis (pars superior) sub teres, striatulus, tomento brevi 
detersili ± denso crispato fulvido praeditus, sat foliosus. Folia alteroa, 
5-7 cm. longa, 2-3 cm. lata, elliptica vel obovata, apice obtusa vel 
rotundata, basi cuneata, margine sub-integra, supra sparse scabride 
pilosula, infra dense fulvo-crispato-tomentosa, nervis 5-6 paribus, 
supra obscuris, infra distincte reticulatis eminentibus, albidis ; 
petiolus 6-12 mm. longus, dense fulvo-tomentosus. Inflorescentiae 
ample, ramos terminantes, late corymbuso-paniculatae, fulvo-tomentosae ; 
bracteae 2-3 mm. longae, lineares vel subulatae- fulvo-tomentosae ; 
pedunculi ultimi 5-20 mm. longi ; capitula circ. 8 mm. longa, 
circ. 7 mm. lata ; involucri phylla 2-3-seriata, 3-4 mm. longa, exteriora 
lanceolata acuta, extus tomentosa, interiora oblonga obtusiora fere glabra, 
intus nitentia glabra ; flores circ. 5 mm. longi, glabri ; ovarium 1 mm. 
longum ; pappi setae circ. 5 mm. longae, sordide albidae, simplices, setulae 
paucae circ. 1 mm. longae exteriores additae. . Achaenium circ. 2 mm, 
longum, subquadratum, minute nitenti-glandulosum. 
Southern India In the Pulneys, 1st Shola, Poombarai Rond, 
Bourne 1351 in Herb. Calc. 
Allied to but quite distinct from the Ceylon Vernonia Wightiana 
Arn. 
Pentasacme shanense, MacGregor et Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species affinis P. caudato , Wall, sed pedicellis longis, floribus multo 
minoribus inter alia differt. 
Planta perennis. Caules plures e radice sat crassa lignosa orti, 12-25 
cm. alti, erecti simplices flexuosi, quadranguli, glabri, inferne mox 
defoliati. Folia opposita, petiolo 1-2 mm. longo, nonnunquam sparse 
hirs utulo praedita, 3-6 cm. longa, 3-5 mm. lata, subcoriacea, lineari- 
lanceolata, apice basique acuta, integra, undique glabra nisi nonnunquam 
prope petiolum hirsutula, infra glaucescentia, costa conspicua nofcata. 
Infloresccntia terminalis racemiformis ; flores subnutantes 2-5-nati in 
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