410 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Lactuca. 



or drooping many-fld. and peduncles hispid with black glandular hairs, outer 

 invol. bracts few linear or subulate, inner 12-15 linear-oblong acute, achenes 

 slender slightly compressed rather longer than the white pappus narrowed 

 gradually into pale slender beak. Dubyeea hispida, DC. Prodr. vii. 247 ; 

 WdL Cat. 3253. Ilieracium heteranthum, Wall. Cat. 3253. H. hispidum, 

 Don Prodr. 165. 



CENTRAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 9000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 11-14,000 ft. 



Root fusiform. Stem 6-18 in. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., more or less hispid on Loth 

 surfaces. Heads broadly campanulate, black when dry; peduncles curved, stout. 

 Achenes ^ in. long, nearly black except the pale beak, ribbed ; pappus more persistent 

 than in the two preceding sections. 



SECT. VIII. Herbs with radical long-petioled leaves, and one or more corym- 

 T>osf lv branched erect flowering stems. Heads small, numerous, erect ; peduncles 

 -""xler, ebracteate; outer invol. bracts minute, inner all equal, linear, green ; 

 ligules yellow. Achenes small, smooth ; pappus silvery or yellowish. (IxEUs, 

 Cass.} 



20. Xi. sagittarioides, Clarke Comp. Ind. 265; biennial?, glabrous, 

 leaves all radical long-petioled sagittate acute or obtuse entire or denticulate, 

 flowering stems erect naked corynibosely branched above, heads ^ in. long, 

 achenes as long as the white pappus elliptic-lanceolate gradually narrowed into 

 the slender white beak. L. sagittata, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. Chondrilla 

 sagittata, Wall Cat. 3270. 



WESTERN and CENTRAL. HIMALAYA ; from Dharmsala to Nipal, alt. 5-6000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Upper Birma. 



Leaves 2-3 in. long and as broad, lateral lobes horizontal or depressed, sometimes 

 obsolete when the leaf is lanceolate, more rarely in pairs on each side; petiole 6-10 

 in., with a coriaceous entire wing that narrows downwards. Flowering stems 6-18 in., 

 slender, sometimes sparsely hairy above, bracts at the forks minute. Heads erect ; 

 outer invol. bracts very small, inner 6-10, linear-oblong; ligules yellow. Achenes ~ 

 in. including the beak, which is much shorter than the body. 



21. It. polycephala, Benth. in Gen. PL ii, 526; annual, glabrous, slen- 

 der, radical leaves petioled very long narrow linear or lanceolate flaccid entire 

 sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid base narrowed, cauline sessile oblong or lanceolate 

 base sagittate auricles acute, flowering stems simple or branched, heads %% in. 

 diam. many-fld. in dichotomous or subumbellate corymbs or panicles, achenes as 

 long as the silvery pappus elliptic-lanceolate strongly ribbed narrowed into a 

 short slender brown beak. Clarke Comp. Ind. 272. Ixeris polycephala, Cass. ; 

 and I. fontinalis, DC. Prodr. vii. 151. Chondrilla fontinalis, Wall. Cat. 3268. 

 C. tennis, Ham., and longifolia, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3274. 



NORTHERN INDIA; in wet places from Kashmir and the Gangetic plain to Sikkim, 

 the Khasia mts., Bengal, Assam, and Birma, ascending the Himalaya to 6000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



A flaccid annual, 6-18 in., with long membranous leaves 3-10 by - f, rarely 

 pinnatifid, when the lobes are usually few, slender and horizontal; cauline often 

 broader than the radical, finely acuminate, with sometimes forked auricles. Heads 

 10-20-fld., erect ; outer invol. bracts minute; inner 6-10, linear-oblong, green ; ligules 

 yellow. Achenes ^ in., red-brown, hardly compressed, smooth, with about 10 very 

 strong smooth ribs. The subumbellate character of the inflorescence is very excep- 

 tional in the genus. 



22. Xi. g-racilis, DC. Prodr. vii. 140 ; glabrous, slender, radical leaves 

 very long linear or linear-lanceolate acuminate quite entire rarely toothed or 

 ciliate, cauline sessile base often ciliate not auricled, flowering stems slender 

 simple or forked, heads - in. long few-fld. narrow in open often excessively 

 branched corymbs, achenes about equalling the dirty white pappus compressed 



