Lactuca.] LXXVIII, composirz. (J. D. Hooker.) 409 
Mulgedium ? Lessertianum, DC. Prodr. vii. 251. Hieracium Lessertianum, Wall. 
Cat. 3954. Melanoseris lyrata, Dene. in Bot. Jacq. Voy. 101, t. 109. 
TEMPERATE and Arten llrwaraxa ; from Kashmir, alt. 8-13,000 ft., to Sikkim, 
alt. 9-16,000 ft. 
Stem 0-12 in., sometimes stout with many erect lateral flowering branches, at others 
slender and nearly simple. Leaves always membranous, with nearly entire margins, 
in one extreme form 6-8 by 1 in, very narrowly oblanceolate, quite entire, obtuse, nar- 
rowed into a long petiole; in another as long but broader, pinnatifidly lobed ; in others 
1-2 in., entire or runcinate. Heads on long cr short flaccid peduncles; blackish, 
sometimes densely villous with long hairs; ligules blue. Achenes } in. including the 
stout beak, black, strongly ribbed; pappus white or yellowish, very deciduous.—This 
is nearly related to L. macrorhiza, though differing a good deal in habit and in the 
achene. 
Secr. VI. Perennial tall branched leafy herbs. Meads loosely panicled, 
large, nodding or pendulous ; peduncle ebracteolate; invol. bracts broad, many- 
seriate, outer gradually larger, all regularly imbricate; ligules blue. Achenes 
long, narrow ; pappus white or yellowish, brittle. 
17. b. macrantha, Clarke Comp. Ind. 267 ; glabrous or pubescent above, 
tall, stout, branched above, leafy, leaves large glabrous sessile oblong pinnatifid 
acutely irregularly toothed base with broad-toothed auricles, heads few 1-1} in 
diam. campanulate peduncled terminating the branches inclined or nodding, invol. 
bracts broadly ovate regularly imbricate ciliate inner oblong subacute, achenes 
equalling the brown fugacious pappus flattened oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic 
ribbed smooth narrowed into a stout paler beak much shorter than the body. 
Mulgedium macranthum, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. T. 
Sixxiw. Himaraya, alt. 10-14,000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. 
Stem 1-2 ft., usually very stout, smooth. Leaves 3-9 by 1-8 in., glaucous beneath, 
terminal lobe usually triangular-ovate. Heads blackish when dry ; peduncles curved, . 
usually pubescent; ligules blue. Achenes 3-3 in.; pappus rigid, brittle. 
18. I. bracteata, Hook. f. E T. in Clarke Comp. Ind. 270; hispid, tall, 
simple or paniculately branched above, leafy, leaves sessile ovate or oblong-ovate 
acute acutely toothed abruptly cordate or contracted into a cordate auricled 
l-amplexicaul base, heads 1-1 in. broad many-fld. campanulate in open leafy 
panicles with long slender branches and peduncles or in leafy racemes inclined 
or drooping, invol. bracts membranous broadly ovate subacute imbricate inner 
oblong obtuse, achenes oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic smooth ribbed flattened 
gradually narrowed into a slender white beak as long as the body longer than the 
white pappus. Melanoseris bracteata, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Smxm Himaraya ; Lachoong Valley, alt. 810,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Stem slender, 1-3 ft. Leaves tolerably uniform, 3-6 by 14-23 in., membranous ; 
those in the inflorescence lanceolate, acuminate. Heads rather numerous ; invol. bracts 
without white margins, reticulated, speckled with red; ligules blue. Achenes } in. 
including the very slender beak; pappus brittle.— This is somewhat intermediate be- 
tween this section and Sect. IV. 
Secr. VIT. A perennial robust simple or sparingly branched leafy hispid 
herb. Heads loosely panicled, large, nodding, clothed with black glandular hairs ; 
peduncle ebracteolate ; outer invol. bracts few, narrow ; ligules yellow. Achenes 
long, narrow; pappus white, persistent. (Dubya, DC.) 
19. E, Dubyeea, Clarke Comp. Ind. 271; leaves simple or the lower 
lobed at the base or pinnatifid, radical O or petioled, cauline ovate hastate or 
oblong-ovate sinuate-toothed, petiole winged, base }-amplexicaul, upper sessile 
oblong or cordate base broadly auricled, heads 1 in. diam. few peduncled nodding 
