626 BENGAL PLANTS. [Cichorium. 
nesious; anthers sagittate at base, with mucronate-acuminate 
auricles. Style with slender, somewhat obtuse arms. Cypsela 
glabrous, somewhat 5-angled, or the outer subcompressed and 
many-ribbed or striate; base contracted, tip truncate or with the 
margin slightly produced ; — of short pales, 2—3-seriate. 
ii, — Inrysus Linn. var. Enprvia Clarke; F. B. I. 
891; BE. D. C. Tee: 
lied in the western and northern provinces. 
An erect herb with divaricate branches. Beng. and 
Hind. Kasni. The Endive 
498. Picris Linn. 
Erect, branched, hispid herbs ; leaves alternate or radical, entire, 
e 
homogamous, yellow, ligulate; involucre suburceolate or cam- 
panulate; inner bracts 1-seriate, subequal; outer many-seriate, 
herbaceous, narrow, or the outermost broad, foliaceous ; receptacle 
flat. Calya-limb hirsute. Petals connate in ligulate corollas; 
i cate, 5- toothed. Stamens syngenesious ; anthers w ith 
slender arms. Cypsela narrow, incurved, subterete, compressed 
or angled, glabrous, 5-10-ribbed, ribs transversely rugose ; beak 
short or long; all similar or the outer with a shorter beak and 
pappus obsolete ; pappus usually copious, of 1-seriate, soft, peni- 
cillate hairs or of fewer r rigid hairs, dilated at the base, with 
sometimes a few outer short hairs. 
1118. Prcris nrRacromwEs Linn.; F. B. I. iii, 393. 
Chittagong, Sitapahar. 
A coarse herb, 1-4 feet high. 
499. Crepis Linn. 
Annual or perennial, glabrous or hairy herbs, hairs all simple; 
leaves radical or alternate, cauline often stem-clasping, — 
toothed, or pinnatifid. Flower-heads ip does solitary, fas 
cicled, or corymbose, yellow or red, homogamous, ligulate; invo- 
inear i“ -seriate inner; aaa or midrib often abel after 
flowering ; receptacle fiat, rarely concave, naked or shortly 
fimbrillate. Calyzx-limb hirsute. Petals connate in ligulate 
