132 



34. DICOMA, Less. 



1. Lanuginosa, DC. Prod. 7, p 36. — Erect, much-branched, 

 wooly ; scales of the ovate involucrfe prickly, nearly glabrous exter- 

 nally ; leaves oblong, soft, quite entire ; heads of flowers apparently 

 axillary, but really terminating ; very short axillary branches ; 

 achenium lO-ribbed, villous. Wear Gogo, in Kattywar; also in the 

 Deccan. Wight Ic. 1140. 



35. MICRORHYNCHUS, Less. 



1. Saementosus, DC. Prod. 7, p 181. — Stem fihform, pro- 

 cumbent, bearing roots and leaves here and there ; leaves crovyded, 

 sinuate-pinnatifid, lobes obtuse or subacute; peduncles 1-headed, 

 rather shorter than the leaf, having at the top scaly bracts, which 

 are scarious on the margin. Very common in sandy ground. Syn. 

 Prenanthes sarmentosa, Willd. sp. iii, p 1640 ; Lactuca sarmentosa, 

 Wight Contr. p 27 ; Launsea pinnatifida, Cass. Ann. d'Soc. Nat 

 23, p 85. 



36. BRACHYRAMPHUS, DC. 



1. Heyneanus, Wight Ic. t. 1146. — Stem erect, glabrous, 

 terete, naked above ; leaves rigid, subradical, runcinate, coarsely 

 setoso-ciliate, the rest glabrous, stem-clasping ; capitula cylindrical, 

 short-pedicelled, remotely fascicled along the branches ; achenia 

 compressed, striated, slightly muricate, shortly beaked. Common 

 on old walls, &c. Syn. Lactuca heyneana, DC. Prod. 7, p 140. 



2. SoNCHiFOLius, DC. Prod. 7, p 177. — Glabrous, stem erect, 

 leafy at the base, naked at the top, sparingly branclied ; leaves 

 membranaceous, stem-clasping, obovate, somewhat runcinate and 

 waved, bristle-ciliated on the margin ; capitula remotely spicato- 

 racemose ; pedicels very short, a little scaly ; achenia oblong, sub- 

 compressed, transversely muricated, attenuated into a short beak; 

 pappus white, soft. Common. Lactuca remotiflora, DC. in Wight. 

 Contr, p 26. 



37. NOTONIA, DC. 



1. N Grandiflora, DC. in Deless, Ic. Selec. iv, t. 61. — A 

 shrub, fleshy, smooth ; stem thick, round, marked with the scars 

 of fallen leaves ; leaves oblong or obovate-entire ; flowers terminal, 

 corymbose, few, pale-yellow. Graham, in Cat. No. 773, has 

 mistaken for this the Kleinia nerufolia of the Canary Islands. 

 High rocky precipices in the Deccan. This genus was named by 

 DeCandolle after Mr. Benjamin IN oton, of Borabay> who collected 

 many curious plants on the Nelgherries, where he found the present 

 species. 



