Lactuca| LXXI. COMPOSITA. 621 
upper ones broad and auriculate at the sessile base, ranging to a 
foot long by 4 in. broad, the lower ones the largest, the uppermost 
ones small; the lobes ovate, the terminal one the largest ; capitula 
oblong in flower, campanulate in fruit, about 3 in. long, very 
numerous, 10- or 11-flowered, on short pedicels, arranged in dense 
oblong thyrsoid bracteate and bracteolate somewhat puberulous 
cymes which are quasi-pedunculate and terminate the stem; 
bracts like the uppermost leaves but smaller; bracteoles very 
small, ovate, acute, sessile; involucral scales purple, imbricate, 
pauciseriate, ovate or ovate-oblong or oblong-obtuse ; the inner- 
most the longest, 10, about + in. long, thinly coriaceous with 
thinner subscarious margins, minutely glandular-puberulous on 
the back, glabrous and shining inside; flowers all hermaphrodite, 
ligulate, shortly exceeding the involucre ; the ligules milk-white, 
rather concave, longitudinally plicate, 5-toothed at the tip, sub- 
patent at the time of the open flower; anther-tube purplish ; 
stigmas recurved, pubescent, violet-purple ; achenes oblong or oval- 
oblong, rather compressed, orange-coloured, marked with about 5 
longitudinal raised delicately muriculate ribs and intermediate 
furrows on each face, } in. long, obtusely narrowed towards both 
ends, abruptly contracted at the denticulate trunculate apex into 
a very short slender beak or stalk crowned with the snow-white 
setaceous copious pauciseriate pappus which is about the same 
length as the achene ; receptacle somewhat foveolate. 
GoLuNGo ALTo.—In Sobato Quilombo; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 3659. 
In open bushy places in Sobato Quilombo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1855. 
No. 3658. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In the rocky thickets of Catete, in the presidium, 
sporadic ; fl. and fr. middle of Jan. 1857. No. 3660. 
This plant was regarded by Welwitsch as a new generic type. 
5. L. capensis Thunb. Prodr, Pl. Cap. p. 139 (1800); 0. & H., 
l.c., p. 452. 
GoLuNGo ALTo.—A herb ; root biennial, fleshy ; stem 13 to 3 ft. 
high, virgately branched ; flowers from whitish to yellowish. Near 
Sange ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1855. No. 3633. 
6. L. abyssinica Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 72 (1839) ; 
0. & H., le, p. 453. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A glaucescent herb, branched from the base ; 
ligule of the ray-florets flat, milkwhite, equally 5-toothed at the apex, 
spreading, quickly disappearing; disk-florets few, erect; stigmas 
exserted, curved inwards. In bushy rather dry situations in the 
road near Mussengue ; fl. and fr. 6 Oct. 1855. No. 3625. Rhizome 
tuberous, perennial ; stem ascending, milky ; florets whitish within, 
rosy or sordid-purplish outside ; fl. and fr. beginning of Noy. 1855. 
No. 3626. A subglaucous herb, 3 to 4 ft. high; flowers pendulous, 
clear-white, producing from afar the effect of a species of an 
Anthericum or of an Arthropodium. At the outskirts of thickets along 
the road leading towards Menha-Lula, sparingly ; fl. and fr. 23 July 
1855. No. 3627. A milky glaucous herb, with thick rootstock, 
erect or ascending, 2 to 3 ft. high or more; ligules 5 to 7, obovate- 
spathulate, white, occasionally with a rosy tint, spreading at the time 
