1 66 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



yellow, very narrow, racemed, florets few and small, involucre 

 oblong, outer bracts much shorter. Sddhimandi. 



Growing ont of walls in many places : on the sea-sands in the N. 

 Konkan : common in fields (H.). L. remotiflora (Brachyrampus son- 

 chifolius ,D.). Smaller, smooth, leaves stem-clasping, auricled, bristle- 

 serrate. Undirkani. Sattara, common (/>.) 



L. sativa is the cultivated lettuce. The milky juice is narcotic. 



32. SONCHUS. Sow thistle. 



S. oleraceus. Smooth or with scattered glandular hairs, 

 leaves lanceolate entire or pinnatifid, acutely auricled, flowers 

 crowded, more or less umbelled, achenes ribbed and wrinkled. 

 Mhdtdra. 



Not in D.,bnt common. Throughout India in fields and cultivated 

 places (#.). 



This is the " common annual sow thistle " of England. It is used 

 for salad in many places. " The asinine feast of sow thistles and 

 bramb I es.' ' Milton. 



33. LAUNEA. 



L. pinnatifida (Microrhyncus sarmentosus, D.). A small 

 glaucous creeping plant with many roots, radical leaves sinuate 

 and pinnatifid ; flowers solitary, bright yellow, with scales or 

 bracts on the short peduncles, involucre bracts from long to 

 very short. Almiro, pdthri. 



Yery common on the sandy sea-shore, Bombay and Konkans; and 

 on many other tropical shores (ff.). 



* L. nudicaulis, not in D. or G., is ascribed by H. to the Deccan 

 and Sind, with flowers sometimes 6 to 10 in a cluster, otherwise very 

 much like the above. 



Note. The next Jive orders agree in having leaves without 

 stipules, and calyx and corolla lobes and stamens 5. 



ORDER 65. GOODENOVIJE. 



Shrubs or herbs, calyx tube adherent to the ovary, stamens 

 inserted at the base of the corolla, stigma large and fleshy. 



SOSVOLA. Corolla oblique, split to the base behind, fruit a 

 drupe. 



S. Kanigii (S. Taccada, D.). A large shrub with thin 

 loose bark and handsome fleshy leaves, collected about the 

 ends of the branches, obovate, smooth and shining, flowers white, 



