“CLASS XIX. 
SYNGENESIA AEQUALIS, 
SONCHUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1233. 
Picsptacle naked, Calyx imbricated, gibbous. Pappus 
hairy, sessile, 
1. S. orixensis. Roxb. 
Annual, Flowers sub-umbelled; peduncles Sait caly- 
ces woolly, Leaves lanceolate, and sagittate, stem-clasping, 
lobes rounded, margins scolloped, finely-toothed, smooth, 
Beng. Bun-palung. 
Teliny. Nalla-tapata, : 
A rare plant, a native of rubbish, &c. near Samulkota. 
It flowers during the latter part of the cold season. 
Stem annual, erect, from three to six feet high, as thick as 
the fore finger, somewhat branchy, piped, round, smooth, ex- 
cept near the top, where there are a few hairs with glandular 
extremities. Leaves approximate, stem-clasping ; the lower 
oneslinear, or lanceolate, scolloped, the upper ones sagittate, 
all are finally prickle-toothletted, both sides smooth ; size 
very various. Flowers numerous, large, yellow, terminal, um- 
belliforum, calyces involved in a little soft woolly substance. 
Cattle are fond of every part of the plant, on being wound- 
ed there is much milky juice discharged, which thickens i in- 
to a substance like fresh soft opium, 
2. S. oleracens. Willd, iii. 1514, 
Annual, Flowers sub-umbelled ; peduneles and calyces 
