452 LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Lactuca. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning (native name, “ Abloge”); Senegambia, 
Richard-tol, Perrottet ! Niger, Barter! (a troublesome weed, flowers yellow). 
Worth Central. Kouka, FL. Vogel! 
Nile Land. Sennaar, Kotschy! Chartum, Schweinfurth! 
2. L. gorwensis, Schultz Bip. in Flora 1842, p. 422. Erect 
glabrous or subglabrous glaucescent annual or biennial, 1-3 ft. high or 
more, branched at least above. Stem and branches terete. Leaves 
pinnatifid, often runcinate, mostly acute, ranging up to 8 by 4 in, 
sessile, amplexicanul or the lowest ones narrowed into a short winged 
petiole ; lobes variable in breadth and depth, denticulate-ciliate. Capi- 
tula }-? in. long, on very short pedicels, in panicled racemose cymes. 
Inner involucral bracts 8, linear-lanceolate, scarcely acute or obtuse, 
with scarious margins; outer bracts ovate imbricated, much shorter 
also with scarious margins. Flowers yellow. Achenes 3-4 in. long, 
dark, fusiform, tapering to a short pale slender apex, about 10.costate, 
transversely rugulose. Pappus white, }—} in. long.—Sonchus gorwen- 
sis, Lam. Enc. Méth. Bot. ii. p. 397. Brachyramphus goreensis, DC 
Prodr. vii. p. 177. S. ciliatus, Perr. ex DC. 1.c. Microrhynchus octo- 
phyllus, Hochst. in Herb. Kotsch. Nub. n. 406. LZ. octophylla, Schultz 
Bip. and L. nubica, Schultz Bip. in Linnea xv. p. 725 (1841). . M. 
Hochstetteri, Schultz Bip. ex Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 1. 2. 
1448 (variety with narrow leaf-lobes). L. Petitiana, A. Rich. Fl. 
Abyss. i. p.462. S. Hochstetter’, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
ZEthiop. p. 160. 
Upper Guinea. I. Gorée, Sparrman; Senegambia, Walo, Perrottet ; Mount 
Chassaniol, Thierry (fide Klatt in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. v. xviii. p. 377). 
Mile Land. Cordofan, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Ehrenberg ! altitude 
5-7,000 feet. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar Island, Hildebrandt ! 
3. &. Schweinfurthii, 0. §- H. A strict herb, 5 ft. high or 
more. Stem erect, straight, striate, terete, puberulous below, leafy, 
simple. Stem leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, undivided, den- 
ticulate, glabrous or nearly so, membranous, sessile, ranging Up 
by 2 in: or more, semi-amplexicaul ; the lower ones narrowed towards 
base, obtuse and mucronate ; the upper ones wide and sub-auriculate at 
base, acute. Capitula cylindrical, 3-4 in. long, 5-flowered, on pedice 
ranging up to } in., in an elongated cyme. Inner involucral bracts 5, 
narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous or nearly so. Achenes 0V; 
compressed, reddish brown, 4, in. long ; margins thickened, sides ea¢ 
with a central vein, glabrous, nearly smooth; beak very short. Papp™ 
+ in., white, soft, caducous from a basal ring. 
Wile Land. Bongo-land, Schweinfurth ! in woods. 
4. I. capensis, Thunb. Fl. Cap., ed Schultes, p. 614. Glabrous 
perennial herb, $-2 ft. high or more. Stem terete, branched, leafy, 
erect or somewhat decumbent at base and flexuons, erect above. Leaves 
linear or oblong, smooth ; the lower ones runcinate-pinnatifid or entire, 
acuminate, 3-5 in. long ; the upper mostly entire, lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, sessile, amplexicaul, sagittate. Capitula 3-} in. long, fom: 
