132 



34. DICOMA, Less, 



1. LANUGINOSA, DC. Prod. 7, p 36. Erect, much-branched, 

 wooly ; scales of the ovate involucre prickly, nearly glabrous exter- 

 nally ; leaves oblong, soft, quite entire ; heads of flowers apparently 

 axillary, but really terminating ; very short axillary branches ; 

 achenium 10-ribbed, villous. Near Gogo, in Kattywar; also in the 

 Deccan. Wight Ic. 1140. 



35. MICRORHYNCHUS, Less. 



1. SARMENTOSUS, DC. Prod. 7, p 181. Stem filiform, pro -. 

 cumbent, bearing roots and leaves here and there ; leaves crowded, 

 sinuate-pinnatifid, lobes obtuse or subaeute ; peduncles 1 -headed, 

 rather shorter than the leaf, having at the top scaly bracts, which 

 are scarious on the margin. Very common in sandy ground. Syn. 

 Prenanthes sarmentosa, Willd. sp. iii, p 1540 ; Lactuca sarmentosa, 

 Wight Contr. p 27 ; Launsea pinnatifida, Cass. Ann. d'Soc. Nat. 

 23, p 85. 



36. BRACHYRAMPHUS, DC. 



1. HEYNEANUS, Wight Ic. f. 1146. Stem erect, glabrous, 

 terete, naked above ; leaves rigid, subradical, runcinate, coarsely 

 setoso-ciliate, the rest glabrous, stem-clasping; capitula cylindrical, 

 short-pedicelled, remotely fascicled along the branches ; achenia 

 compressed, striated, slightly muricate, shortly beaked. Common 

 on old walls, &c. Syn. Lactuca heyneana, DC. Prod. 7, p 140. 



2. SONCHIFOLIUS, DC. Prod. 7, p 177. Glabrous, stem erect, 

 leafy at the base, naked at the top, sparingly branched ; leaves 

 membranaceous, stem-clasping, obovate, somewhat runcinate and 

 waved, bristle-ciliated on the margin ; capitula remotely spicato- 

 racemose ; pedicels very short, a little scaly ; achenia oblong, sub- 

 compressed, transversely muricated, attenuated into a short beak ; 

 pappus white, soft. Common. Lactuca remotiflora, DC. in Wight. 

 Contr. p 26. 



37. NOTONIA, DC. 



1. N GRANDIFLORA, DC. in Deless, Ic. Selec. iv, t. 61. A 

 shrub, fleshy, smooth ; stem thick, round, marked with the scars 

 of fallen leaves ; leaves oblong or obovate-entire ; flowers terminal, 

 corymbose, few, pale-yellow. Graham, in Cat. No. 773, has 

 mistaken for this the Kleinia nerufqlia of the Canary Islands. 

 High rocky precipices in the Deccan. This genus was named by 

 DeCandolle after Mr. Benjamin Noton, of Bombay, who collected 

 many curious plants ori the Nelgherries, where he found the present 

 species. 



