GO Lwi. co.mposit.t:. 



elongate, subequal, the outer often very short. Keceptacle flat, naked. 

 Corollas ligulate, truncate and o-tootlied at the apex. Anther-bases 

 sagittate, with acute or shortly setaceo-acuminate auricles (rarely pro- 

 longed into lacerate tails). Pappus copious ; hairs co - seriate, very 

 slender, simple, persistent or separately deciduous. Achenes ovoid, 

 oblong or narrow, more or less compressed, sometimes flattened, shortly 

 contracted at the base, abi-uptly or gradually produced into a beak at 

 the apex ; faces 3-5-ribbed, the ribs slender or strong, smooth or rarely 

 transversely rugose ; beak slender or short and cylindric, more or less 

 dilated into an entire or toothed pappiferous disk. — Distrib. Europe, 

 Asia, Africa, and N. America ; species about 60. 



A stout herb 2-5 ft. high ; leaves sometimes 12 in. long 1. L. runcmata. 



A slender herb 8-18 in. high ; leaves rarely exceeding 4 in. long. 2. L. remotiflora. 



1. Lactuca runcinata, DC. in Wight, Contrih. (18:34) p. 26. 

 A tall glabrous herb 2-5 ft. high ; stem, erect, cylindric, hollow below, 

 often very stout and much-branched. Leaves sessile, mostly radical, 

 runcinate or pinnatifid, membranous, glabrous on both sides, with 

 spinoso-ciliato often inciso-serrate margins ; radical leaves 4-12 in. 

 long, obovate, obtuse, narrowed at the base ; cauline leaves few, remote, 

 narrower, ^-amplexicaul, auricled. Heads ^ in. long, cylindric, usually 

 sessile, solitary or in small distant clusters along slender leafless 

 branches ; flowers pinkish-white. Outer invol.-bracts few, yV~8 ^"' 

 long, ovate, acute, with broad scarious margins ; inner bracts \ in. long, 

 linear-oblong, subobtuse, with scarious margins. Ligules narrow, shortly 

 and bluntly 5-toothed at the apex. Anther-bases shortly setaceo- 

 acuminate. Style-arms slender. Pappus white, soft, slender, longer 

 than the achenes, copious. Achenes J^^h ^"^^ ^o"^?' compressed, faintly 

 ribbed, muriculate, black, tapering into a beak which is suddenly dilated 

 into a whitish cup-like disk beneath the pappus. Lactuca Hei/neana, 

 DC. Prodr. v. 7 (18^8) p. 140 ; Hook. f. PL B. 1. v. 3, p. 403'; C. B. 

 Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 261 (exclud. syn. Prenauthes sarmentosa) ; Trim. 

 PI. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 52 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 651. 

 Brachyramphus llei/neanus, Wight, Icon. t. 1146 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 132. 

 — Plowers : Dec. Vern. Pcithari. 



The name L. runcinata is 4 years prior to that of L, Ilcijueana and 

 by the same author. 



Common on old walls, Bahell 4" Gihsou. Deccan : widely, Jl'oudroiv.— Distrib. 

 India (N. Western Provinces, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



2. Lactuca remotiflora, DC. in WigJii, Contrih. (1834) p. 26. 

 Herbaceous, 8-18 in, high ; stem slender, branclied. Leaves mostly 

 radical, sessile, 2-4 by 1-1| in., obovate or oblong-i)innatiHd, rounded 

 at the apex, finely sinuate-toothed, glabrous. Heads usually solitary 

 (rarely fascicled) along the naked slender branches, with peduncles nearly 

 as long as the head. Invol.-bracts, flowers, pappus and achenes as in 

 Lactuca runcinata, but the achenes rather longer than in that plant. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 3, p. 403; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 651 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 578. Brachijramphus 

 sonchifolius, DC. Prod. v. 7 (1838) p. 177 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 132.— 

 Plowers : Sept. Vern. Fdthari. 



