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lower thinly pubescent; teeth numerous, small, sharp. Heads 
many, radiate, ^ in. diam., on slender stalks crowded in broad, 
terminal corymbs. Involucral bracts linear, rigid, acute, inner 
ones as long as the flowers, outer shorter ; ligules short, broad, 
2- or 3-toothed. (Fig. 78.) 
Simla, common ; September, October. — W. Himalaya, 4000-7000 ft. 
Fin. 78. Inula cuspid ata. 
22. VIC0A. In honour of G. B. Yico, an Italian scientific 
author of the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth 
centuries.— Asia, Africa. 
Rough or softly hairy, erect herbs ; stems leafy, branched. 
Leaves alternate, stem-clasping, lobed at the base. Heads radiate, 
long-stalked. Involucral bracts many, inner ones as long as the 
disk- flowers, outer shorter ; receptacle flat, naked ; flowers yellow ; 
pappus scanty; ligules 1- or 2-toothed; corolla of disk-flowers 
5 -lobed. Achenes small, cylindric, silky-pubescent. 
Roughly pubescent. Flowers orange-yellow. Ligules short, 
broad, recurved . . . . . . . . 1. V. auriculata 
Densely and softly hairy. Flowers bright yellow. Ligules 
long, narrow, spreading . . . . . 2. V. vestita. 
