71. COMPOSITE: CTCHOBIACE.E. 477 



pappo breviores ; receptaculum parvum. Flores flavi. Achcenia 

 rufa, fusiformia, leviter curvata, glabra, multistriolata ; pappi 

 seta? albse, molles, uniseriatae, patentes, minutissime barbellata?. 



Hfpeh: Icbang and immediate neighbourhood {A. Henry !). 

 Herb. Kew. 



Characterized by the leaves being borne on long petioles, other- 

 wise closely allied to Crepis japonica. 



5. Crepis prenanthoides, Hemsl, n. sp. 



Herba biennis vel perennis, 2-3 ped. alta, glabrescens, caulibus 

 subsimplicibus striolatis. Folia membranacea, petiolata, cito 

 glabrescentia, subtus glauca, remote calloso-denticulata ; radicalia 

 longe petiolata (petiolo 6 poll, longo), hastato-cordata, 3-4 poll, 

 longa; caulina breviter petiolata, alte pinnatifida, segmentis an- 

 guste lanceolatis, longe acuminatis. Capitula pauca, laxe pani- 

 culata, graciliter pedunculata, 12-15-flora; involucri calyculati 

 bractese 7-8, leviter puberulse, angustse, obtusae, coloratae, pappo 

 paullo breviores ; receptaculum nudum. Achcenia fusco-atra, 

 nitida, fusiformia, pappum sequantia, apicem versus albida, mul- 

 tistriata, minutissime puberula, sursum attenuata, estriata; pappus 

 albus, mollis, diu persistens. 



Szechuen : Chung city (Faber !). Herb. Kew. 



The limits of the genera Crepis, Lactuca, and Prenanthes are 

 so badly denned, and perhaps indefinable, that it is difficult to 

 determine in which to place some species ; but the erostrate 

 achenes and soft, white, apparently persistent pappus point to 

 Crepis for the present species, though the smooth tapering tip of 

 the achenes is the next thing to a beak. 



6. Crepis Turczaninowii, C. A. Mey. \ Turcz. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. 

 »• 2. p. 162; Franchet, Fl David, p. 185; Maxim. Ind, Fl 

 Pek. in Prim. Fl Amur. p. 473. 



Chihli : Peking (ex Maximowicz). 

 Mongolia and Mandshuria. 



1. Hieracium umbellatum, Linn. Sp. PI ed. 1, p. 804; DC. 

 Prodr. vii. p. 224 ; Sook.f. Fl Brit. Ind. iii. p. 400 ; Ranee in 

 Journ. Pot. 1879, p. 12 ; Franchet, PI David, p. 186. 



Chihli: near Peking (Mcellendorf, hb. Hancel), Jehol(David 

 ex Franchet); Hupeh: Patung district (A. Henry, 936, 1035, 



