Launea.] COMPOSIT#. 629 
ligulate ; involucre ovoid, campanulate or cylindric, often dilated 
thickened and conic at the base; bracts many-seriate, herbaceous 
outer smaller; receptacle flat, naked. Calyx-limb setose. Petals 
connate in ligulate corollas, with truncate, 5-toothed lamina. 
Stamens syngenesious; anthers with sagittate base ; auricles 
shortly setaceous, acuminate. Style with slender arms. Cypsela 
_ ovoid, obovoid or ellipsoid, compressed, not beaked, ribbed; ribs 
_ smooth or transversely rugose; pappus copious, hairs man. 
seriate, very slender, simple, usually white and united at the base 
in a deciduous ring. 
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B ribs Of cach face ..csceceseseececternceseseesneres 
Leaves with acute or acuminate auricles; a 
between the 3 ribs of cach face ......seeeseccesecseecsesnnersteener es aceus. 
Perennial; achenes hardly compressed, with thick, regular ribs; heads 
lax; leaves with rounded auricles .....++.+...csesrrserrrrter eerste arvensis. 
1124, Soncuus asper Vill.; F. B. I. iii. 414. 
In most of the provinces, rather common. 
A tall milky annual 
1125. SoncHus OLERACEUS 
S. 
Linn.; F. B. I. iii. 414; E. D. 
2 
In most of the provinces, not very common. 
A tall milky annual. Hind, Titlia. 
1126. Soncuus arvensis Linn.; F. B. T. iii. 414; E. D. 8. 2854. 
. orixensis F, I. iti. 402. 
C. Bengal, rather rare. 
A tall, milky-juiced herb, with creeping perennial root- 
stock. Hind. Sahadevi bari; Beng. Ban-palang; San- 
tal. Bir barangom. 
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503. Launea Cass. 
Perennial glabrous herbs, with yellowish juice; leaves chiefly 
ical, sinuate, lobed or pinnatifid, margins often spinulose- 
toothed. Flower-heads peduncled or lateral and sessile on the 
branches, racemose or paniculate, or solitary or fascicled, yellow, 
-homogamous, ligulate ; involucre campanulate or cylindric ; bracts 
many-seriate, herbaceous, margins often membranous, inner sub- 
equal, outer various; keel often thickened in fruit; receptacle 
