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uppermost linear and about 2 cm. in length. Peduncles usually 

 10-20 cm. long, slender; proper peduncles usually 1-2 cm. long, 

 with narrow bracts of 2-1 mm. Involucres 8 mm. long, the often 

 carinate leaves 1.25-nearly 2 mm. broad. Corollas with narrowly 

 infundibular tube 8 mm. long, expanding to rather more than 1 mm. 

 under the limb; lobes oblong, obtuse, 2 mm. long. Style-arms 3 mm. 

 in length. Achenes 1.5 mm., pappus 8 mm. long. 



157. AlXSLIAEA PTEROPODA D.C. 



Langbian Leaks, 7,500 ft. 



Distrib. India, Malay Peninsula. 



158. Geebera piloselloides Cass. 



Dalat, 5,000 ft. 



Distrib. India, China, Madagascar, Tropical and South 

 Africa. 



159. Lactuca versicolor Sch. Bip. 



Dran, 3,000-4,000 ft. ; Langbian Peaks, 6,500 ft. A specimen 

 from Daban, 650 ft. with a brown pappus may perhaps be a form of 

 this very variable species. 



Distrib. N. Asia, China. 



160. Lactuca Klossii S. Moore, sp. nov. 



Herba fere glabra, circiter bispithamea. Caulis ascendens 

 frequenter ramosus uti rami gracilis quadrangularis necnon in longi- 

 tudinem striatus. Folia pauca parva anguste linearia obtusiuscula. 

 Capitula inter minora in paniculam laxam pleiocephalam ordinata 

 pedunculis propriis filiformibus quam involucrum longioribus nudis 

 vel bractea parvula donatis. Involucri cjdindrici puberuli phylla 

 ext. pauca linearia vel anguste lineari-lanceolata obtusa acutave 

 interiora 8 oblonga obtusa marginibus decoloribus. Flosculi pro 

 capitulo 10 corollis bene exsertis. Acheaia compressa anguste 

 linearia in rostrum breve extenuata paucistriata. Pappi setae scabrida 

 albae. 



Dran, 3,000-4,000 ft. ; Dalat, 5,000 ft. 



Stem in its lower part about 2 mm. thick and leafless there or 

 nearly so; branches 1 mm. or less in thickness, their leaves few and 

 far between. Leaves more or less 1 cm. long, sometimes only 5 mm. 



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