Lactuca.} LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 453 
11-flowered, on bracteolate pedicels ranging up to 14 in. long, in a 
loosely panicled cyme. Flowers white or yellow or blue. Inner invo- 
lucral bracts usually 8. Achenes compressed, dark brown, l-ribbed 
on each side, with a long pale neck at top. Pappus pale-yellowish or 
nearly white.—DC. Prodr. vii. p. 136. Harv. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 526, 
with synonymy. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons Mountains, Mann! 5,000-7,500 ft. alt.? Senegam- 
oe iene / (young specimens in young flower with rudimentary leaves in Hb. 
rol, 
Mozamb. Distr. Between Senna and Lupata, Kirk! Shupanga, Kirk! Mo- 
ramballa, Waller / 
Occurs also in Southern and Eastern districts of the Cape Flora. 
5. li. abyssinica, Fresen. in Mus. Senek. iii. p. 72 (1839), ex 
soryptione. An erect nearly glabrous glaucescent robust herb, 3 ft. 
igh or more. Stem terete, smooth, rigid, straight. Lower leaves 
pinatifid- or sinuate-dentate ; upper leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 
usually undivided, margins quite entire or aculeate-denticulate, sessile, 
Semi-amplexicaul, bi-auriculate, ranging up to 6 in. long, midrib 
smooth or nearly so, auricles lanceolate, acute, ranging up to 4 in. 
long or more, entire or denticulate. Capitula 4-3 in. long, on short 
or Sometimes elongated bracteolate pedicels, in an elongated or diffuse 
cyme. Inner involucral bracts 8. Florets 10-13, violet. Achenes 
dark reddish brown, 1-ribbed on each side, terminating in a pale slen- 
der neck about as long as the body. Pappus yellow at base.—A. Rich. 
Fi, Abyss. i. p. 462. 
Nile Land. Sennaar, Kotschy! Mittu-land, Schweinfurth! Niamniam-land, 
Schweinfurth ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Riippell. 
6. &. virosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. p. 795 (1758). Erect glauces- 
cent annual or biennial, about 1-3 ft. high. Stem simple up to the 
Inflorescence, usually aculeate-setose below, terete, striate above. 
m-leaves erect-patent, obovate-oblong, undivided, sinuate-toothed 
+. Tuncinate, sagittate-amplexicaul, sessile, subentire or aculeate-den- 
tieulate, 1-4 in. long or more. Capitula }-3 in. long, on very short 
P edicels, ina cyme with spreading branches. Inner involucral bracts 
about 8 obtuse. Florets about 11, yellow. Achenes striate, dark 
Town in ZL. virosa proper, or in L. Scuriola, Linn., greyish brown, 
Pidulous near the top of the body, which terminates in a slender 
of nearly the same length. Pappus white or nearly so. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, 6000 ft. alt., Schimper! Cordofan, Kotschy! 
Widely Spread over Europe, Egypt, N. India, ete. 
ethaps identical with the Cape species Z. Dregeana, DC. 56), i.e. L. Sea 
riola ue rola, Linn. Cent. ii. Pl. n. 189 (Propos. oe tet se apelin ‘only by 
the less dark pohevee ii. p. 1119 (1768), appears to diffe 
7. Ze Hochstetteri, Schuliz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. i. n. 
128. ranched perennial, 2-24 in. high or more. Root-stock thick. 
ranches glabrous slender, terete. Lower leaves mostly runcinate- 
-ntate, glabrous or puberulous, 1}-3 in. long or more; upper loaves 
t, mostly pinnatipartite, with distant lanceolate-linear acute 
