CLASS XIX. 



SYNGENESJA AEQUALIS. 



SONCHUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1233. 

 Receptacle naked. Calyx imbricated, gibbous. Pappus 

 hairy, sessile. 



1. S. orixensis. Roxh. 



Annual. Flowers sub-umbelled; /?ef/MWc/es hairy, caly- 

 ces woolly. Leaves lanceolate, and sagittate, stem-clasping, 

 lobes rounded, margins scolloped, finely-toothed, smooth. 



Beng. Bun-pal ung. 



Telimj. 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 in- 

 to a substance like fresh soft opium. 



2. S. oleraceus. Willd. iii. 1514. 



Annual. Flowers sub-umbelled ; peduncles and calyces 



