Srec. Cuar. Root somewhat woody: stems ascending, erect,
somewhat angular, glabrous: leaves stem-clasping, with roundish
auricles, oblong-lanceolate, unequally and acutely toothed, glabrous,
glaucescent, upper ones nearly linear: corymbs lax and with the
pedicels and involucres glandulosely hairy : achzenia oblong, striat«
ed, transversely wrinkled.
In shady places near Coimbatore, flowering in the cold season.
GENUS LXXXII. YOUNGIA.
Syn. Pol. Zqgualis. Sex; Syst:


Gen. Cuar. Capitula about 12-flowered: corolla pilose at the
apex of the tube: achzenia oblong, compressed, subtrigonous, striat-
ed, beakless, attenuated at both ends: pappus pilose, scarcely den-
ticulate.—Herbaceous plants; inferior leaves lyrate or pinnatifid :
capitula paniculate: involucre cylindrical, 8-leaved, with about 5°
calyculate accessory scales: receptacle naked.
(1) Y. runcinata. ( Dec.)


Ident. Dec. prod. VII. p. 192.
Syn. Chondrilla runcinata, Wall. Cat. No. 382.
Srzc. Cuar. Slightly glabrous: stems somewhat leafless at the.
epex, puberulous below together with the petioles and nerves of tha


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feaves: leaves runcinately-pinnati-partite : lobes subtriait tilar, mit=
cronately toothed, acute, stem ones also petioled : panicle elongat=
ed, lax: pedicels naked filiform: capitula 15-16-flowered : involu-
cral scales 7-8, submembranaceous at the margin, very minutely
calyculate at the base.
Silhet.
(2) ¥. wapivotra. (Dec.)


Ident. Dec. prod. VII. p. 193.
Syn. Prenanthes napifolia, Wall. Cai. No. 9§87.—Lactuca na-+
pifolia, Dec. in Wight’s Contrib. p. 27.
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1147. :

Spec. Cuar. Gabrous; subhirsite at the base : stem erect, loosely:
panicled! at the apex, somewhat leafless: radical and lower stent
leaves petioled, ruricinately lyrate: lobes oval-oblong, obtusely:
sinuate, mucronately denticulate, the extreme ones confluent: in-
volucre 8-leaved, very minutely calyculate: achzenia attenuated at
the apex. '

Silhet. Coimbatore. Flowering in the rainy season.
(3) Y. ampieus. (Dec. )
Ident. Dec. ptod. VII. p. 193.
