Order 64. Composite?. 165 



linear lanceolate bristle-toothed leaves, flowers small and 

 slender, more or less panicled, florets few, purple, bracts erect. 

 Motabor. 



Deccan and Konkan, Hahableshwar and Ghauts. It often grows 

 on cultivated fields. 



T. amplemcaulis, a large stout plant, quite smooth, leaves elliptic 

 obovate, flowers larger than T. radicans and with more florets, outer 

 bracts recurved, inner longer, bristle-pointed. Ddhdn. 



Dapoli and above Lanoli, where it grows four or five feet high. 

 Not in D., Konkan (#) I believe that the three species run into 

 one another. 



Carthamus tinctorius, belonging to this tribe, is safflower, culti- 

 vated in all black soil districts. Kusumba. There is a prickly var. 

 called Kurde. From the flower a dye is made, which is often called 

 bastard saffron. The true saffron comes from the common yellow 

 crocus, and the colour is frequently used by the poets to describe 

 the early morning sky, and otherwise. 



" There let Hymen oft appear 

 In saffron robe." Milton. 



Goniocaulon, flowers narrow of few florets, all hermaphrodite and 

 fertile, bracts very narrow, not spinous. *Q. glabrum (Amberboa 

 Indica, D.), smooth, erect, stem furrowed and angular, leaves sessile 

 lanceolate or obovate, flowers rose-purple, florets about 5. Guzerat 

 (_D.). Central India and Deccan (H.). Volutarella, outer florets in one 

 series neuter, disk florets hermaphrodite, involucre ovoid or round. 

 V. divaricata (Tricholepis procumbens, D.) branched, straggling or 

 procumbent, more or less hairy, leaves lyrate or pinnatifid, bristle- 

 pointed, florets about 12, bracts flat, bristle-pointed. Poona districts. 

 Guzerat (D.)- Cutch, Palin. 



In tribe Mutisiacese the florets have generally a bilabiate corolla, 

 but the genus here given belongs to a sub-tribe with sub-equal 

 corolla, and separated from Cicoraceae by minute differences. 



DICOMA, flowers sub-sessile on the branches, disciform, receptacle 

 flat, naked. D. tomentosa, erect, woolly, leaves sessile narrow, entire, 

 flowers on short axillary branches, florets mai y, straw-coloured, with 

 tufts of stiff white hairs among them, bracts long, narrow and very 

 bristly. 



Sholapore. Deccan and Gogo (.) 

 (10) ClCHORACE^E. 



31. LACTUCA. Lettuce. 



L. Heyneana (Bracliyrampus, H., D.). A tall, smooth weak 

 plant, radical leaves pinnatifid with rather broad lobes and saw- 

 like serratures, stem leaves few, small and stem -clasping, flowers 



