Lactuca.] lxxviii. coiiPOsrrjE. (J. D. Hooker.) 405 



Jjale, margins thickened scubrid, tip cleft embracing the base of the beak ; pappus 

 1 in. long, quite white. 



6. Xi. dissecta, Don Prodr. IG-t ; annual, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, 

 stem dichotomously branched from the base, branches slender leafy, leaves 

 entire or lyrate or runcinate-pinnatifid lobes entire or sparingly toothed lower 

 petioled cauline ^-amplexicaul base auricled or sagittate, uppermost linear, heads 

 ^-^ in. erect narrow cylindric few-fld., outermost invol. bracts minute ovate 

 innermost narrowly linear, achenes oblanceolate transversely rugose faces 

 3-ribbed, beak capillary twice as long as the body. DC. Prodi: vii. 135 ; Soits. 

 Fl. Orient, iii. 814 ; Clarice Comp. Ind. 264. L. Stocksii, Boiai. Dia'gn. Ser. 2, 

 iii. 96. L. arvensis, Edgeiv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 79. ChondrUla aui'iculata, 

 Wall. Cat. 3269. ' 



Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 4-8000 ft. ■Western 

 Tibet ; Iskardo, alt. 8000 ft., Clarice. Salt Eanoe ; Aitchison. — Disteib. Affghani- 

 stan and Beluehistan. 



This, like L. undtdata, is senecionoiJ in habit and very variable. Stem 3-18 in. 

 high, sometimes simple and leafless below, branching upwards ; at others numerous 

 eorymbosely branched flowering stems start from the crown which bears a profusion 

 of rosulate leaves. Leaves 1-4 in,, very variable indeed in lobation, spmetimes almost 

 bipinnatifid. Heads corymbose, on very slender pedunel^, erect; ligules blue. 

 Achenes including the capillary beak J in. long, miwh compressed, dull, margins most 

 minutely scabrid, tip cleft as in L. undulata ; pappus ^ in. long, white. 



7. Ii. loug'ifolia, DC. Prodr. vii. 136; annual or biennial, glabrous, tall, 

 erect, paniculately branched above, sometimes hispid at the base, leaves sessile 

 very long lanceolate or linear-lanceolate acuminate entire or sparingly J-pinna- 

 tifid lobes very few distant acute base sagittate, heads ^ in. long erect peduncled 

 12-20-fld., outer invol. bracts few ovate, inner linear-oblong, achenes elliptic or 

 oblanceolate nearly smooth faces 3-5-nerved, beak capillary equalling or shorter 

 than the body. Clai-Jce Comp. Ind. 204. Ohondrilla longifolia, Wall. Cat. 3273. 

 Mulgedium sagittatum, ifoy/e III. 252, t. 61, f. 2 {achene bad) ; DC, I. a. 250. 



Westehn and Central Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Nipal, alt. 4-9000 ft., 

 Wallich, &c. 



Stem 3-6 ft., strict, always simple below. Leaves 3-6 by ^-J in. or more across 

 the lobes when ,|-pinnatifid, in which ease the lobes are very few, membranous„almost 

 nerveless; auricles deflexed, acute, appressed to the stem. Heads in broad or narrow 

 panicles, erect; peduncles slender with few bracts ; invol. bracts pale green, unequal; 

 ligules blue. Achenes I in. including the beak, dark brown, much compressed, young 

 with thickened margins, faces obscurely rough and most minutely scaberulous ; 

 pappus I in., white. 



8. Ii. brevirostris, Champ, in Hooh. Keio Journ. iv. 237 ; annual, 

 glabrous, stem tall erect paniculately branched above, leaves very long linear or 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate quite entire or toothed base simple or shortly 

 auricled, heads ^ in, long erect peduncled 12-20Tfld., outer invol. bracts few 

 ovate inner linear-oblong, achenes ellipsoid much compressed smooth black beak 

 capUlary shorter than the body. Clarlie Comp. Ind. 265. L. bialata, Ch-^. 

 Notul. iv. 247 ; Kura in Jouim. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 206. L. squarrosa, Miguel 

 Prod. Fl. Jap. 121, 363. L. amurensis, Kegel. Ind. Sem. Sort. Petrop. 1859, 42. 

 Prenanthes squarrosa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 303. 



SiKKiM Himalata ; Eungeet valley, Anderson, Clarice. Khasia Mts. ; all. 4-6000 

 ft., J. B. H. §■ T. T. Assam, Jenkins ; Suddya, Griffith. — Distrib. Japan, China, 

 Philippine Islds. 



Habit of L. longifolia and as tall, but the leaves are never pinnatifid and want 

 the sagittate base ; the achenes are quite diflferent, very flat, black, J in. long, includ- 

 ing tie beak, with one strong median rib on each face and 4 more slender lateral ones 



