5 2 Composites. {Launcea. 



beak, much muriculated, pappus abundant, white. — Sp. 60; 

 22 in Fl. B. hid. 



Zi. Keyneana, DC. Prod. vii. 140 (1838). 



Prencnithes sonchifolia, Willd., Moon Cat. 57. Brachyrha^nphus 

 sonchifoliiis, Thw. Enum. 168 (non DC). C. P. 2827. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 403. Wight, Ic. t. i\i\6{Brachyrka7nphus). 



Herb, stem erect, 3-6 ft., branched above, cyhndrical, very 

 glabrous, glaucous; 1. mostly radical, sessile, large, 4-12 in., 

 basal ones obovate, obtuse, the others oblong, deeply run- 

 cinate-pinnatifid, with acute spreading segm., all ciliate- 

 spinulose on margin, glabrous on both sides, thin, stem-L 

 narrower, stem-clasping and auriculate at base; heads shortly 

 stalked in small clusters (or solitary), distantly placed on long, 

 wiry, leafless, ascending branches ; inner inv.-bracts obtuse, 

 with broad membranous margin, glabrous, fl. 12-16, spreading; 

 achene black, beak dilated at summit. 



Low country, on old walls and rubbish, principally in the dry region; 

 rather rare. Galle (Moon); Anuradhapura, about the ruins alDundant; 

 Jaffna. Fl. Aug.-Oct., Feb.; pinkish-white. 



Also in Peninsular India. 



Sonchiis asper., Vill., and 6". oleraceus., L., the common Sowthistles of 

 England, are commonly found as weeds in cultivated ground. The latter 

 is C. P. 3631, and is figured in Wight, Ic. t. 1141 as S. ciliatus. 



36. ZiAUNSlA, Cass. 



Perennial prostrate herb, 1. in fascicles; heads solitary at 

 the nodes, rather large, involucre narrow, bracts in several 

 rows, outer ones shorter, fl. all ligulate and bisexual, anth.- 

 bases sagittate, style-arms slender; achene narrow, not com- 

 pressed, very broadly ribbed, not beaked, pappus copious, 

 white, readily detached — Sp. 20 ; 7 in Fl. B. Lid. 



Xj. piunatifida, Cass, in Ann. Sc. Nat. xxiii. 85 (1831). 

 Prcnanthcs sar/neniosa, Willd., Moon Cat. 57. Microrhynchus sannen- 

 tosus, DC, Thw. Enum. 168. C. P. 1746. 



Fl. I'. Ind. iii. 416. Wight, Ic. t. 133 {M. sarmentosus). 



A perennial herb, sending off long, prostrate, wiry, glabrous 

 branches, with very long arched internodes, and rooting at every 

 node; 1. radical, and in fascicles at the nodes, i-2in., sessile, 

 oblong, tapering to base, acute, more or less deeply runcinate 

 or pinnatifid, slightly denticulate, glabrous; heads about 1 in. 

 wide, on short, stout, erect, usually bractcated peduncles, inv.- 

 bracts obtuse, with membranous margins, glabrous, fl. about 12, 



