APPENDIX II. 



hairs of fern. 1 -seriate, slender, scabrid, free and caducous, of herm. 

 fl. often thickened at the tips. 



1. A. araneosa, DC. Syn. Gnaphalium decurrens, Wall. Cat. 2939. 



Erect 2 ft. high, cottony with decurrent hnear leaves 2-3" long, 

 white woolly beneath and a terminal close capitate panicle of white 

 heads. 



Bhagalpur (Xathpur), Ham. ! Fl. June-July. 



This may be from over the Nepalese frontier (see p. 1233), as it is normally a 

 hill plant. Clarke does not quote this specimen in his ComposiUe Indicce. 



51. LACTUCA, L. (p. 49(5). 



A . Flowering stems corymbosely or paniculately branched : — 

 Peduncles ebracteate. Outer invol. bracts distinct, much 



smaller than the inner . . . . . . .1. polycephala. 



Peduncles bracteate. Outer invol. bracts gradually passing 



into the inner. Cultivated only . . . . .2. scariola. 



B. Flowering stems slender spicifoim or sub-racemiform with 



heads solitary or fascicled on the rhachis . . .3. Heyneanu. 



3. L. Heyneana, DC. 



A tall glabrous annual or biennial with stem hollow below and leaves 

 mostly radical 6-12" very irregularly runcinate-pinnatifid ; cauline 

 few, half-amplexicaul auricled. Inflorescence as in Launea with heads 

 in distant spiked or racemose fascicles on the slender branches. Fruit 

 •1" long, oblanceolar suddenly contracted to a short beak, black, 

 muricate ; pappus silvery persistent -2" long, flexuous, silvery. 



Patna, Ham. ! Fl., Fr. h.s. 



Leaves membranous narrowed at the base, with fine spinulose firmer teeth. 

 Heads "5", rarely shortly peduncled, bracteolate. Inner invol. bracts in fruit 

 with thickened ribs. 



FAM. 90. ASCLEPIADACE^ (p. 557). 



16. TELOSMA, Coville. 



PolHnia elongate. Cor. -lobes -i-'o". L. glabrous or pubescent on 



the nerves beneath 1 . pallida. 



Pollinia globosely obovoid. Cor. -lobes '2". L. and petioles hairy . 2. viinor. 



2. T. minor, Craib. Syn. Pergularia minor, Andr. ; Pergularia odora- 

 tissima, Wight. 



A twiner with ovate-oblong, orbicular or ovate deeply cordate 

 suddenly acuminate leaves, 2 -5-3" long, shortly hairy, and with hairy 

 petioles 1-1 -.5" long. Flowers -5" long (including the often suberect 

 lobes) in umbellate cymes 1-3-2" diam. "very fragrant,"' yellow or 

 green. Sepals linear-oblong hairy -3" about ec^ualling the corolla 

 tube. Corolla-lobes mostly erect •2-- 25", oblong; tube pubescent 

 above within ; coronal scales double, inner with a long subulate 

 point but very variable {J.D.H.). Follicles lanceolate 3" long by 

 • 75" diam. Seeds • 3" long, broadly ovate. 



Patna, Ham. ! {Wall. No. 8182). Fl. April-May. 



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