476 71. composite: cichobiace.e. 



Youngia runcinata, Y. napifolia, Y. Poosia, Y. ambigua, Y. fastigiata, 

 et Y. striata, DC. Prodr. vii. pp. 192-193, ex Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 

 p. 395. 



Chihli : near Peking (Bunge !) ; Kiangstt : Shanghai {Main- 

 gay \ Perry I); Chekiang : Ningpo (Oldham, 80!); Kiangsu: 

 Kinkiang (Maries I); Fokien: Amoy (Sance, 1465 !) ; Fobmosa 

 (Oldham, 280 !) ; Hupeh : Ichang, Patung and neighbourhood (A. 

 Henry I) ; Kwangtung (Tate I Callery !) ; Hongkong (Wilfordl 

 Wright ! Champion !) ; Cobean Abchipelago : Port Hamilton 

 (Wilfordl); Luchu Abchipelago (Wright ! Beechey !). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



India to Japan and southward to Australia ; also found in 

 the Mauritius and South Africa, where, however, it may be a 

 colonist. 



An exceedingly variable plant in stature and in the shape of 

 the leaves ; the flowering-stems being either naked or scape-like, 

 or more or less leafy, and sometimes three feet high. Remarkable 

 among several varieties collected by Dr. A. Henry is one in which 

 the primary and secondary branches of the inflorescence are given 

 off in a close corymbose order. Another variety, if correctly 

 referred here, has a stout hollow stem and large leaves, indicating 

 humid or very rich soil. 



[Youngia gracilis, Miq. (Journ. de Bot. JNeerl. t. i. p. 106), from 

 Kwangtung, is probably a variety of Crepis japonica. 



Youngia humilis, DC. (Prodr. vii. p. 194), syn. Brenanthes hu- 

 milis, Thunb. (PL Jap. p. 302), enumerated by DeCandolle 

 among his " species non satis notes," and quite unknown to us, is 

 recorded (Fl. Shangh. p. 39) from Shanghai by Debeaux. 



Youngia humilis, Miq. (Journ. de Bot. Neerl. i. p. 106), is not 

 a Crepis, but probably a Lactuca.~] 



4. Crepis longipes, Hemsl., n. sp. 



Herba perennis ?, 2-3-pedalis, undique glabra vel cito glabres- 

 cens, caulibus viridibus striatis infra inflorescentiam simplicibus. 

 Folia membranacea, longissime petiolata, cordato-hastata vel 

 interdum ovata, absque petiolo usque ad 6 poll, longa, obscure 

 lobata, simul remote calloso-denticulata, acuminata, obtusa vel 

 rotundata, simul minute calloso-apiculata ; petiolus gracilis, 4-6 

 poll, longus, sursum gradatim brevior. Capitula parva, circiter 

 15-20-flora, composito-corymbosa ; involucri minute calyculati 

 bracteae circiter 8, herbaceae, angust®, acuta?, albo-marginatae, 



