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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Cbepis japonica, Bentli. PI. Hongk., 194. Annual; glabrous or 
puberulous ; stems one or more from the same root, 6 to 18 in. high. 
Radical leaves oblanceolate, runcinate-pinnatifid or sinuately toothed, 
1 to 2-5 in. long, usually on petioles ‘5 to P5 in. long ; cauline leaves 
few, much smaller and often sessile. Heads - 2 in. long and - 3 in. in 
diam. when expanded, on short, slender pedicels with linear minute 
braeteoles at their bases, collected at the apices of the long, slender 
stems in compact or lax corymbose cymes. Involucres shorter than 
the florets, their bracts in two rows, the outer very short ; the inner 
6 or 7, narrowly oblong, blunt, with narrow hyaline margins and dark,, 
thickened midribs. Gypselas '1 in. long, contracted below the apex, 
but not beaked, compressed, with many smooth or puberulous ribs, 
equal to or shorter than the soft, white pappus. Hook. fil. PL Br. Ind. 
III. 395; Prain Bengal Plants, 627. C. lyrata, Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 253. Youngia lyrata, Cass. ; Thw. Enum. PL Ceyl. 168. Young ia 
Thunbergiana, runcinata, napifolia, Poosia, ambigua, fastigiata and 
striata, DO. Prod. VII. 192, 193. Y. napifolia, Wight Ic. 1147. 
Lactuca napifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 27. Chondrilla runci- 
nata, Wall. Cat. 3272. Prenantlies Poosia and napifolia, Wall. 
Cat. 3265, 3277. P. japonica, Linn. Mant. 107. P. striata, Blume 
Bijdr. 885. 
In all the provinces, near or in cultivated ground. 
Order LXII. STYLIDIE^L 
Herbaceous plants, rarely undershrubs. Leaves radical or scattered 
or fasciculate on the stem, more or less subverticillate, entire, often 
small and narrow, no stipules. Floivcrs in terminal racemes or thyrsoid 
or corymbose panicles, irregular, perfect, pedicels bracteate. Calyx- 
tuba adnate to the ovary ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip 3-, lower 2-flowered. 
Corolla gamopetalous, 5-lobed, 4 lobes spreading, the fifth (lip) smaller, 
irregular, the lobes imbricate. Stamens 2, parallel, inserted on a 
glandular disk surmounting the ovary ; filaments connate with the 
style into a column; anthers sessile on the column, the cells sub- 
confluent. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; style entire or divided into two 
stigmas ; ovules many in each cell, on axile placentas on the middle of 
the dissepiment, anatropous. Fruit a 2-celled capsule, sometimes 
1-celled by the suppression of the septum, the valves cohering at the 
base. Seeds minute, numerous, sub-globose ; albumen fleshy ; testa 
thin ; embryo minute, next the hilum. — Distbib. Species about 100, 
Australian, with a few in tropical Asia, New Zealand, and Antarctic 
America. 
