FLORA OF ADEN. 
23 L 
smooth or rarely transversely rugose ; beak slender or short and cylindric, 
more or less dilated into an entire or toothed pappiferous disk. 
Species about 60. 
Distribution : — Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. 
1. Lactuca goraeensis (Hochst.) Schultz Bip. in Flora (1849.) 
p. 422 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. Ill, 452. 
Sonchus gorseensis Lam. Enc. M6th. Bot. Ill, 397. 
Brachyramphus gorseensis DC. Prodr. YII, 17 7. 
Sonchus ciliatus Perr. ex DC. Prodr. VII, 177. 
Microrhynchus octophvllus Hochst. in Herb. Kotsch. Nub. n. 406. 
Lactuca octophylla Schultz Bip. in Linnsea XV, (1841) 725. 
Lactuca nubica Schultz Bip. 1. c. 
Microrhynchus Hochstetteri Schultz Bip. ex Hochst. in Herb. 
Schimp. Abyss. Ill, n. 1448. 
Lactuca Petitiana A. Rich. FI. Abyss. I, 462. 
Sonchus Hochstetteri Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 
p. 160. 
Description : — Erect glabrous or subglabrous glaucescent annual or 
biennial, 1 — 3 feet high or more, branched at least above. Stem and 
branches terete. Leaves pinnatifid, often runcinate, mostly acute, rang- 
ing up to 8 by 4 inches, sessile, amplexicaul or the lowest ones narrowed 
into a short winged petiole ; lobes variable in breadth and depth, denti- 
culate-ciliate. 
Capitula | — § inch long, on very short pedicels, in panicled race- 
mose cymes. Inner involucral bracts 8, linear-lanceolate, scarcely acute 
or obtuse, with scarious margins ; outer bracts ovate-imbricated, much 
shorter also with scarious margins. Flowers yellow. 
Achenes J — -J inch long, dark, fusiform, tapering to a short pale 
slender apex, about 10-costate, transversely rugulose. Pappus white 
•J — i inch long. 
Locality : — Aden (Schweinf.). 
Distribution : — Yemen, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Kordofan, Upper Guinea, 
Mozambique. 
8. Launtea Cass. 
Perennial or annual glabrous herbs usually with yellow juice. 
Leaves mostly radical, sinuately lobed or pinnatifid ; margins often 
with cartilaginous or subspinous teeth. 
Heads pedunculate or subsessile, solitary, fascicled, racemose or 
paniculate, homogamous ; flowers all ligulate, yellow. Involucre caffi- 
’panulate or cylindric ; bracts oc-seriate, imbricate, often with scarious 
