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Crepis japonica, Benth. Fl. Hongk., 194. Annual; glabrous or 

 puberulous ; stems one or more from the same root, 6 to 18 in. high. 

 Eadical leaves oblanceolate, runcinate-pinnatifid or sinuately toothed, 

 1 to 2-5 in. long, usually on petioles -5 to 1-5 in. long ; cauline leaves 

 few, much smaller and often sessile. Heads -2 in. long and '3 in. in 

 diam. when expanded, on short, slender pedicels with linear minute 

 bracteoles at their bases, collected at the apices of the long, slender 

 stems in compact or lax corymbose cymes. Involucres shorter than 

 the florets, their bracts in two rows, the outer very short ; the inner 

 6 or 7, narrowly oblong, blunt, with narrow hyaline margins and dark, 

 thickened midribs. Cypselas "1 in. long, contracted below the apex, 

 but not beaked, compressed, with many smooth or puberulous ribs, 

 equal to or shorter than the soft, white pappus. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 395 ; Prain Bengal Plants, 627. C. lyrata, Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 253. Youngia lyrata, Cass.; Thw. Enum. PI. Ceyl. 168. Youngia 

 Thunhergiana, runcinata, napifolia, Poosia, ambigua, fastigiata and 

 striata, DC. Prod. VII. 192, 193. Y. napifolia, Wight Ic. 1147. 

 Lactuca napifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 27. Ghonclrilla runci- 

 nata, Wall. Cat. 3272. Prenanthes Poosia and napifolia. Wall. 

 Cat. 3265, 3277. P. japonica, Linn. Mant. 107. P. striata, Blume 

 Bijdr. 885. 



In all the provinces, near or in cultivated ground. 



Order LXII. STYLIDIE^. 



Herbaceous plants, rarely undershrubs. Leaves radical or scattered 

 or fasciculate on the stem, more or less subverticillate, entire, often 

 small and narrow, no stipules. Flowers in terminal racemes or thyrsoid 

 or corymbose panicles, irregular, perfect, pedicels bracteate. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to the ovary ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip 3-, lower 2-flowered. 

 Corolla gamopetalous, 5-lobed, 4 lobes spreading, the fifth (lip) smaller, 

 irregular, the lobes imbricate. Stamens 2, parallel, inserted on a 

 glandular disk surmounting the ovary ; filaments connate with the 

 style into a column ; anthers sessile on the column, the cells sub- 

 confluent. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; style entire or divided into two 

 stigmas ; ovules many in each cell, on axile placentas on the middle of 

 the dissepiment, anatropous. Fruit a 2-celled capsule, sometimes 

 1-celled by the suppression of the septum, the valves cohering at the 

 base. Seeds minute, numerous, sub-globose ; albumen fleshy ; testa 

 thin ; embryo minute, next the hilum. — Distrib. Species about 100, 

 Australian, with a few in tropical Asia, New Zealand, and Antarctic 

 America. 

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