404 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Laduca. 



3. Zi. orient alls, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 810; perennial, glabrous, branches 



white "with green wings, leaves small decurrent, lower pinuatitid with spreading 

 or incurved triangular acute entire or toothed lobes, upper linear entire elliptic 

 or oblanceolate, heads in. long in spiked fascicles sessile, achenes narrow 

 equalling the silvery deciduous pappus. L. viminea, Clarke Comp. Ind. 2G2, 

 not of Schultz-Bip. Phenopus orientals, Boiss. Voy. en Esp. 390, in note. 



WESTERN TIBET; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. Westward to Syria 

 and Armenia. 



A much intricately branched shrubby herb, tlio branches often spinescent, con- 

 spicuous from the silvery white branches being winged by the decurrent bases of the 

 leaves, the blades of most of which are undeveloped. Leaves 1-2 in., bright green. 

 Heads solitary or in fascicles of 2-5. Achenes in., narrowed to both ends from the 

 middle or a little above it, pale. Affghan specimens have smaller heads and achenes 

 than the Tibetan. The habit is that of L.ramosissima, Gren. & Godr. (Eeichb. le. 

 Fl. Germ. 1419), but the achene is very different. 



SECT. III. Herbs with radical leaves and er-ect rarely spreading (L. Clark fi} 

 leafy flowering-stems. Heads panicled, erect, rarely fascicled or drooping ; 

 peduncle bracteate ; outer invol. bracts gradually passing into the inner ; ligules 

 yellow blue or purple. Aclicms beaked ; pappus silvery. (ScA.Ri.OLA.) 



* Beak of achene capillary, white. 



4. Zs. Scariola, Linn. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 809 ; annual or biennial, 

 glabrous, tall, erect, very leafy, corynibosely or paniculately branched above, 

 leaves suberect sessile runcmate-pimiatifid spinulose-toothed midrib prickly 

 beneath, cauline ^-amplexicaul sagittate, heads ^ in. long erect cylindric few-fld. 

 panicled glabrous, outer invol. bracts triangular inner linear, achenes oblanceo- 

 late many-ribbed ribs scabrid beak capillary about equalling the body. DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 137; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t,li21: 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Marri to Kunawur, alt. 6-11 ,000 ft. WESTERN TIBET; 

 alt. 9-12,000 ft. DISTRIB. Siberia and westwards to the British Isles and Canaries. 



Stem 2-5 ft., somewhat prickly. Leaves 5-7 iu., smooth except the midrib and 

 nerves beneath. Inflorescence variable, .sometimes 12 in. diam., with incurved ascend- 

 ing corymbose branches, at others laxly paniculate ; branches and peduncles white, 

 with many appressed green cordate bracts. Invol. bracts ovate, inner 'linear ; ligulcs 

 yellow or dull-reddish outside. Achenes 5- in., including the very slender beak, 

 ribbed, pale ; pappus in. Not a Nipal plant, as stated by Clarke. I have seen no 

 specimen from east of the Sutlej. 



VAR. sativa; more succulent, quite smooth, leaves spreading pinnatifid or entire, 

 brandies of panicle shorter with more numerous bract", achenes black. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 263. L. sativa Linn.; DC. Prodr. vii. 138; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 403; 

 lleichb. Ic. FL Germ, t. 1421. L. bracteata and sativa, Watt. Cat. 3243, 3244 B. 

 The garden lettuce, cultivated throughout India. 



5. X., undulata, Ledeb. FL Alt. iv. 150; Ic. Fl. Koss. t, 129; annual, 

 glabrous or glaucous, stem short dichotomously branched from the base leafy, 

 radical leaves sessile pinnatitid lobes entire or sparingly toothed, cauline ^-am- 

 plexicaul base dilated or auricled, heads 1 in. long narrow erect peduncled 

 cylindric few-fld., outermost invol. bracts small inner unequal very slender 

 obtuse, achenes oblanceolate transversely rugose margins scabrid, beak capillary 

 3-4 times as long as the bodv. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 813 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 135 ; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 263. 



WESTERN TIBET; alt. 9-12,000 ft., Thomson. SALT BANGE; Fleming. DISTRIB. 

 Siberia, Soongaria, and "westwards to Arabia. 



Habit of a Senecio of the Jacobcsa section, 6-10 in. high, succulent. Leaves 2-3 

 in., dark green. Heads subcorymbcse or terminal on the branches ; ligules white 

 pink or blueish. Achenes including the capillary beak \-~ in. long, much compressed 



