Less, in Linnoea, 1831, 674 ; rigid, scabrid, leaves hard subsessile or petioled elliptic or obovate-lanceolate acuminate acutely serrate, heads 30-flowered large fascicled in terminal panicled corymbs, invol. bracts linear obtuse and apiculate or acuminate or pungent outermost subulate, achenes sparsely hairy, pappus dirty white or reddish. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 200. V. aspera, DC. Prodr. v. 31, not of Ham. ; Wall. Cat. 2922, excl. A. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 17. Eupatorium asperum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 61 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 415. E. pyramidale, Don Prodr. 170. Xipholepis aspera, Steetz in Peters Mosamb. Rot. 345 ? excl. syn.
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Royle, Edgeworth. CHOTA-NAGPORE, and CENTRAL INDIA, alt. 1-4000 ft. BEHAR, J. D. H. CONCAN, Law (perhaps cult.) ; BIRMA, at Bhamo, on dry hills, Griffith.
More branched than V. teres ; leaves often narrowed into a slender petiole, acumi¬nate and deeply serrate ; heads smaller, very numerous ; invol. bracts fewer and broader, inner 1/3 in., quite linear ; achenes as large, less hairy and only between the ribs ; outer pappus hairs often absent.
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