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bescent on the back, and agrees in every respect with my East Indian 
specimens. 
34. Lactuca drevirostris, Champ., sp. n.; glabra, caule terete erecto 
apice paniculato, foliis lineari-sublanceolatis elongatis acuminatis basi 
amplexicauli-dilatatis auriculis rotundatis dentatis cæterum integer- 
rimis, pedicellis bracteolatis, involucri squamis exterioribus breviter 
interioribus longe lanceolatis obtusiusculis, rostro achenio ipso 2-3- - 
plo breviore. : ; 
Hong-Kong. At first sight it much resembles the Z. longifolia, Wall., 
but the leaves are dilated and auricled, not narrowed at the base, and 
the beak of the achenia is much shorter. The shape of the heads of 
flowers is ovate as in L. longifolia, not narrow cylindrical as in the 
section Mycelis, to which our plant is allied by the achenia. 
35. Taraxacum dens-leonis, Desf.—DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 145. 
Found among the ruins of an old house. 
36. Youngia? sp., allied Y. napifolia, DC., perhaps a mere variety, 
but there are no achenia far enough advanced to determine its cha- 
racter. 
Hong-Kong, a single specimen. 
The two plants of Mr. Hinds which I described as Barkhausia 
tenella and Brachyramphus ramosissimus are not among Major Cham- 
pion's. They are both allied to Youngia, and, as observed by Wight, 
the difference between Brachyrhamphus and those Foungie of which 
the achenia are narrowed at the apex on the one hand, and some Lac- 
tuce of the section Mycelis on the other, is but very slight. The fruit 
in my specimen of Barkhausia tenella is very young, but has decidedly 
too long a beak to be placed in Brachyramphus or Youngia. The Bra- 
chyramphus ramosissimus is certainly a congener of and nearly allied to 
Brachyramphus Heyneanus, : s 
remains; it is equally certain that it has no relation to Dubyæa in habit 
or character, to which however Mr. Hance has removed it. 
To the above Composite must be added a Xanthium, probably X. — 
DC., Emilia sonchifolia, Cass., and 
een observed in the island 
Champion’s collection. 
Indicum, Roxb., Gynura ovalis, 
Sonchus oleraceus, Linn., all of which have b 
or gathered by Mr. Hinds, but are not in Major 
(To be continued.) 
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in whatever genus that species definitively — 
