m 



',_' Spec. Char. Stems twiggy, ijliform, procumbent, here and there 

 Rearing roots and leaves : leaves close together, sinuately pinnatifid : 

 ^bes obtuse or subacute : peduncles 1-headed, somewhat shorter, 

 than the leaf, bearing at the apex subimbricated scaly bracts, sea- 

 pose at the margin : flowers yellow. 



In sandy places near Negapatam. 



(4) M. GtABER. CB. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. HI. 



Syn, Lactuca glabra, Dec. Wight's Contrih. p. 26. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1 145.— Spicil. II. t. 118. 



' Spec Char. Glabrous : stem naked, dichotomously branched t 

 leaves long-linear, acute, entire or toothed: capitula corymbose, 

 Iflng-pedicelled, cylindrical, 7-8-flowered: scales of the involucre 

 ^-6, linear-lanceolate, somewhat scariose on the margin : achaenia 

 5>-angled, obscurely beaked : flowers yellow. 



" Neilgherries, flowering all the year. 



GENUS LXXX. .SONCHUS. 

 Syn. Pol. iEquallB. Six: Syst! 



-Dfriv. From the Greek Sonchos, the English sowthistle. 



I Gen. Char. Capitula many-flowered : achaenia wingless, coni« 

 picssed, erostrate, longitudinally costulate : costulae often transverse.. 

 Jj< tuberculato-muricate : pappus soft, most slenderly filiform. — ; 

 Herbaceous polymorphous plants ; involucre imbricated : receptacle 

 naked : flowers yellow. 



(1) S. ciLiATUs. (Lam.) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. VII. p. 185. 



, Syn. S, oleraceus, Linn. Wight's Contrib. p. 27. — Roxb, Jtorl 

 Jnd. III. p. 402. 



iEngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1141. — Gaetrn. fr. II. t. 158. 



■-Spec. Char. Stem erect, glabrous or rarely hairy glandulose at 

 the apex : cauline leaves stem-clasping, sharply dentato-ciliate, run- 

 cinate or undivided : auricles acuminate : involucres and pedicels 

 slightly glabrous : achaenia transversely muricately wrinkled : flow^ 

 ers large, yellow. 



Negapatam and other places in the Peninsula, flowering in Feb* 

 S-uary and March. 



(2) S. Orixensis. {Roxb.) 



Ident. Roxb. fl, Ind. III. p. 40,2.— Dec. prod. Vll. p. igO| 



