410 LXXVIII, composit#. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Lactueca. 
or drooping many-fld. and peduncles hispid with black glandular hairs, outer 
invol. bracts few linear or subulate, inner 12-15 linear-oblong acute, achenes 
slender slightly compressed rather longer than the white pappus narrowed 
gradually into pale slender beak. Dubyzea hispida, DC. Prodr. vii. 247 ; 
Wall. Cat. 3253, Hieracium heteranthum, Wall. Cat. 3253. H. hispidum, 
Don Prodr. 165. 
CENTRAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 9000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 11-14,000 ft. 
Root fusiform. Stem 6-18 in. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., more or less hispid on both 
surfaces. Heads broadly campanulate, black when dry; peduncles curved, stout. 
Achenes } in. long, nearly black except the pale beak, ribbed ` pappus more persistent 
than in the two preceding sections. 
Secr. VIII. Herbs with radical long-petioled leaves, and one or more corym- 
hosely branched erect flowering stems. Meads small, numerous, erect; peduncles 
slender, ebracteate; outer invol. bracts minute, inner all equal, linear, green ; 
ligules yellow. -Achenes small, smooth ; pappus silvery or yellowish. (Ixeris, 
Cass.) 
20. L. sagittarioides, Clarke Comp. Ind. 265; biennial ?, glabrous, 
leaves all radical long-petioled sagittate acute or obtuse entire or denticulate, 
flowering stems erect naked corymbosely branched above, heads 4 in. long, 
achenes as long as the white pappus elliptic-lanceolate gradually narrowed into 
the slender white beak. L. sagittata, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. Chondrilla 
sagittata, Wall. Cat. 3270. 
Western and CENTRAL Himaraya; from Dharmsala to Nipal, alt. 5-6000 ft.— 
DisrniB, Upper Birma., 
Leaves 2-3 in. long and as broad, lateral lobes horizontal or depressed, sometimes 
obsolete when the leaf is lanceolate, more rarely in pairs on each side; petiole 6-10 
in., with a coriaceous entire wing that narrows downwards, Flowering stems 6-18 in., 
slender, sometimes sparsely hairy above, bracts at the forks minute. Heads erect; 
outer invol. bracts very small, inner 6-10, linear-oblong; ligules yellow. Achenes i 
in. ineluding the beak, whieh is mueh shorter than the body. 
21. L. polycephala, Benth. in Gen, Pl ii. 526; annual, glabrous, slen- 
der, radical leaves petioled very long narrow linear or lanceolate flaccid entire 
sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid base narrowed, cauline sessile oblong or lanceolate 
base sagittate auricles acute, flowering stems simple or branched, heads i— in. 
diam. many-fld. in dichotomous or subumbellate corymbs or panicles, achenes as 
long as the silvery pappus elliptic-lanceolate strongly ribbed narrowed into a 
short slender brown beak. Clarke Comp. Ind. 272. Ixeris polycephala, Cass. ; 
and I. fontinalis, DC. Prodr, vii. 151. Chondrilla fontinalis, Wall. Cat. 3268. 
C. tenuis, Ham., and longifolia, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3974. 
Nortnern Inpa; in wet places from Kashmir and tbe Gangetic plain to Sikkim, 
the Khasia mts., Bengal, Assam, and Birma, ascending the Himalaya to 6000 ft.— 
Distris. Affghanistan. 
A flaccid annual, 6-18 in., with long membranous leaves 3-10 by 3-3, rarely 
pinnatifid, when the lobes are usually few, slender and horizontal; cauline often 
broader than the radical, finely acuminate, with sometimes forked auricles, Heads 
10—20-fld., erect ; outer invol. bracts minute; inner 6-10, linear-oblong, green ` ligules 
yellow. Achenes A in., red-brown, hardly compressed, smooth, with about 10 very 
strong smooth ribs.—The subumbellate character of the inflorescence is very excep- 
tional in the genus. 
22, L. gracilis, DC. Prodr. vi. 140; glabrous, slender, radical leaves 
very long linear or linear-lanceolate acuminate quite entire rarely toothed or 
ciliate, cauline sessile base often ciliate not auricled, flowering stems slender 
simple or forked, heads 1-1 in. long few-fld. narrow in open often excessively 
branched corymbs, achenes about equalling the dirty white pappus compressed 
