Lxxi. coiir>)siT.i:. 59 



clothed with lonf^ silkjr hairs. El. B. I. v. 3, p. 3S7 ; C. B. Clai'ke, 

 Comp. Ind. p. 245; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 81; AV^oodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 651 ; AVatt,Dict. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 111. 

 Dicoma lanuginosa, DC. in Wight, Contrib. (1834) p. 20 ; Icon. 1. 1140 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 132. — Plovvers : Nov.-Mar. Vebn. Navanangi.' 



Dfxcan : hills near Alandi, Kanitlcar I ; Gokak Falls, Ritchie, 1803 ! S. M. Country : 

 Eadaiui, Cooke ! Gujarat : near Gogo (Kathiawar), Balzell tf" Gibson ; Junagliad 

 (Kathiawar), Cooke \ Sind: Stocks \; Tata, Woodrow], Bhola Pumnl — Distrib. 

 India (N.W. Provinces, W. Peninsula) ; Tropical Africa. 



The plant has been nsed medicinally in Belgaum as an agreeable bitter and febrifuge. 

 See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



40. HOCHSTETTERIA, DC. 



A rigid branched perennial herb. Leaves alternate, usually denticu- 

 late, lleads solitary, terminal, homogamoLis, discoid ; flowers orange, 

 all ^ , fertile. Involucre hemispheric; bracts co - seriiite, narrow, very 

 acute, rigid, with scarious margins, the outer shorter. Eecei)tacle 

 convex, pitted, the margins of the pits often produced into short paleaj. 

 Corollas regular, tubular; limbs elongate, 5-partite, the lobes more or 

 less revolute. Anther-bases subciliate, the auricles produced into long 

 lanceolate subciliate tails. !Style-arms linear, obtuse, flattened. Pappus 

 of 10 stellately spreading palese with hyaline margins below the middle, 

 slender and barbellate above. — Distiub. Tropical Africa, Arabia, Sind ; 

 species 1. 



1. Hochstetteria Schimperi, DO. Prodr. v. 7 (1838) p. 287. 

 An erect, much-branched, rather rigid berb 1-2 ft. high ; branches slender, 

 erect or ascending, angular, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves (including 

 the petiole) |-2 by ^-f in., elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, mucronat(^, 

 serrulate, araneously-pubescent on both sides, attenuated at the base 

 into a short obscurely winged petiole. Heads |-| in. in diam., usually 

 with foliaceous bracts at the base which are shorter than the involucre, 

 luvol. -bracts linear-lanceolate, aristate, the outer very short, the inner- 

 most reaching h in. long, pubescent, with a strong midrib and scarious 

 and ciholate margins. Keceptacle convex, deeply pitted, the pits with 

 toothed paleaceous margins. Corolla J- in. long ; lobes linear-lanceolate, 

 ^ in. long. Pappus much longer than the achenes, slightly shorter than 

 the corolla; hairs 10, rigid, with a hyaline wing at each side at the 

 base, barbellate above. Achenes turbinate, jL in. long, densely villous 

 with long brownish hairs which cover the achene. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 388 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 24G ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 651.— Flowers : Jan. 



In India confined to Sind. Sind: Bhola Buraii], Woodrow; sandstone rocks near 

 Shah Eilawah, BahcU l—jyiSTmR. Nubia, Arabia (tolerably abundant at Aden). 



50. LACTUCA, Linn. 

 Glabrous (rarely hispid) usually milky herbs. Leaves radical and 

 alternate, entire, coarsely toothed or pinnatifid, the margins setoso- 

 ciiiate or naked ; cauHne leaves often amplexicaul and auricled. Heads 

 variously paniculate, sessile or pedunculate, homogamous ; flowers all 

 ligulate, yellow, purple or blue. Involucre cylindric, usually narrow ; 

 bracts usually few-seriate, often with scarious margins; the innermost 



