Lactuca] Lxxi. composit^e. 621 



upper ones broad and auriculate at the sessile base, ranging to a 

 foot long by 4 in. broad, the lower ones the largest, the uppermost 

 ones small ; the lobes ovate, the terminal one the largest ; capitula 

 oblong in flower, campanulate in fruit, about ^ in. long, very 

 numerous, 10- or 11-flowered, on short pedicels, arranged in dense 

 oblong thyrsoid bracteate and bracteolate somewhat puberulous 

 cymes which are quasi-pedunculate and terminate the stem ; 

 bracts like the uppermost leaves but smaller; bracteoles very 

 small, ovate, acute, sessile; involucral scales purple, imbricate, 

 pauciseriate, ovate or ovate-oblong or oblong-obtuse ; the inner- 

 most the longest, 10, about ^ in. long, thinly coriaceous with 

 thinner subscarious margins, minutely glandular-puberulous on 

 the back, glabrous and shining inside ; flowers all hermaphrodite, 

 ligulate, shortly exceeding the involucre ; the ligules milk-white, 

 rather concave, longitudinally plicate, 5-toothed at the tip, sub- 

 patent at the time of the open flower ; anther-tube purplish ; 

 stigmas recurved, pubescent, violet-purple ; achenes oblong or oval- 

 oblong, rather compressed, orange-coloured, marked with about 5 

 longitudinal raised delicately muriculate ribs and intermediate 

 furrows on each face, ^ in. long, obtusely narrowed towards both 

 ends, abruptly contracted at the denticulate trunculate apex into 

 a very short slender beak or stalk crowned with the snow-white 

 setaceous copious pauciseriate pappus which is about the same 

 length as the achene ; receptacle somewhat foveolate. 



GOLUNGO Alto.— In Sobato Quilombo ; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 3659. 

 In open bushy places in Sobato Quilombo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1855. 

 No. 3668. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the rocky thickets of Catete, in the prsesidium, 

 sporadic ; fl. and fr. middle of Jan. 1857. No. 3660. 



This plant was regarded by Welwitsch as a new generic type. 



5. L. capensis Thunb. Prodr. PI. Cap. p. 139 (1800) ; 0. & H., 

 I.C., p. 452. 



GrOLUNGO Alto. — A herb ; root biennial, fleshy ; stem li to 3 ft. 

 high, virgately branched ; flowers from whitish to yellowish. Near 

 Sange ; fl. and fr. Deo. 1855. No. 3633. 



6. L. abyssinica Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 72 (1839) ; 

 O. & H., Lc, p. 453. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A glaucescent herb, branched from the base ; 

 ligule of the ray-florets flat, milkwhite, equally 5-toothed at the apex, 

 spreading, quickly disappearing ; disk-florets few, erect ; stigmas 

 exserted, curved inwards. In bushy rather dry situations in the 

 road near Mussengne ; fl. and fr. 6 Oct. 1855. No. 3625. Rhizome 

 tuberous, perennial ; stem ascending, milky ; florets whitish within, 

 rosy or sordid-purplish outside.; fl. and fr. beginning of Nov. 1855. 

 No. 3626. A subglaucous herb, 3 to 4 ft. high ; flowers pendulous, 

 clear-white, producing from afar the eflEect of a species of an 

 Anthericum or of an Arthropodium. At the outskirts of thickets along 

 the road leading towards Menha-Lula, sparingly ; fl. and fr. 23 July 

 i855. No. 3627. A milky glaucous herb, with thick rootstook, 

 erect or ascending, 2 to 3 ft. high or more ; ligules 5 to 7, obovate- 

 spathulate, white, occasionally with a rosy tint, spreading at the time 



