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cephalis erectis. Folia radicalia breviter petiolata, caulina sessilia, plus minusve 
oblique decurrentia, omnia coriacea, pallida, rigida, oblonga, maxima 6 poll. longa, 
sepius integra, undulata, utrinque prominentia laxeque reticulato-venosa. Capitula 
citrina, fere cylindrica, 11-2 poll. longa, pedunculis parvi-foliosis; involucri bractese 
pluriseriatee, appressse, согізсеге, primum puberule vel seaberulw, acute vel sub- 
aculeatze, exteriores brevissimre, ovato-oblong:e, interiores subscariose, lineares, usque 
15 lineas longe ; flores homomorphi, 5-6 lineas exserti; receptaculum planum, paleis 
numerosissimis angustissimis circiter 9 lineas longis instruetum. Achenia glabra 
(matura desunt), leviter costata, 3-4 lineas longa; pappi sete: numerosissime, 
in:equales, longiuscule plumose, longiores 9 lineas long:e. 
Near C. alata, Lam., in the cauline leaves and flower-heads; but the latter are fewer 
and larger, and the үа and pappus are wholly different. 
Khorasan: 667, June 17, 1885. А weed, in fields, at an altitude of 5000 feet, having 
large, handsome, lemon-coloured flower-heads. 
CENTAUREA PHYLLOCEPHALA, Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. p. 684. 
Badghis: 480, May 16, 1885; Hari-rud valley : 595, June 3, 1885. Abundant every- 
where, but especially so near villages. Its habit of growth is very varied, as in gravel 
soil and in the arid country it lies flat on the ground, while in moist ground it is an 
erect bush almost three feet high. 
CENTAUREA VIRGATA, Lam.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. p. 651. 
Khorasan: 690, June 18, 1885, July 1, 1885. "Very common, in all sorts of soil, 
throughout the Hari-rud valley, as well as in Khorasan. : 
CENTAUREA BALSAMITA, Lam.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. p. 679. 
Khorasan: 630, June 15, 1885. Common in cultivated soil. 
CENTAUREA DEPRESSA, Bieb.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. р. 635. | 
Hari-rud valley: 223, April 13, 1885, June 5, 1885. А very attractive and charac- 
teristic weed in corn-fields. 
CENTAUREA PULCHELLA, Ledeb.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. p. 620. kb 
Hari-rud valley: 288, April 21, 1885, May 28, 1885; Badghis: May 16, 1885. 
Common in shingle and stony soil. 
CENTAUREA Picris, Pall. — Acroptilon Picris, DC.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. p. 612. 
Hari-rud valley : 1071, June 3, 1885; Khorasan : June 21, 1885. Excessively common, 
on the margins of fields and sides of irrigation-channels. 
CENTAUREA MOSCHATA, Linn.—Amberboa moschata, Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. p. 605. 
Hari-rud valley : 262, April 17, 18, 19, 1885; Мау 10, 15, 1885. Native name Mai-i- 
mesh. Very common in shade. 
CENTAUREA ALBISPINA, Aitch. & mb — Microlonchus albispinus, Bunge ; Boiss. Fl. 
Or. iii. p. 701. 
Hari-rud valley: 428, May 10, 1885. Very local in gravelly soil on the sides of low 
hills near Tirphul. The flowers vary from white and yellow to pink. 
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