PLA.WTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



U4H 



Shrubs witu Alternate Exstipdlate Simple Leaves. 

 Petals United. 



Vernonla clncxascens, 



COMPOSlTyE. 



F. B. I. iii 2:>7. 

 The riains. 

 The Sa't ranee. 

 Waziristan, Baluchistan. 



Fluclioa ovalis, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. ii. 272. 



The Salt raagL(Aitchison) 



riTic'ioa 'Wallichiiiia, 



COMPOSlTiE. 

 b\ II. I.i i. 272. 

 Th*^ P.ains (Fdlconer and 

 Stewart). 



Pluohea lanccolata, 



Striwi, e hauii. 

 COMP IS T^ 

 l'\ B. I. iii 372. 

 The I'hviiis. 



Flowers minute in Heads, 



medium size, much branched, grey^ velvety, branches 

 grooved, white; leaves ^-I^ ins., oblong, rounded 

 tapering to a narrow base, often with iin abrupt tip, 

 sometimes toothed, gland-dotted, velvely on both 

 surfaces ; flowers purple in solitary beads, r{ in. diam., 

 on the ends of the branches of flat-topped clusters, 

 bracts round the heads, ^ in , in many series. linear, 

 inner longest, calyx of hairs (pappus) ^ in., white, 

 persistent, corollas smooih, slender, all tubular, teeth 

 5, narrow, anther bases blunt, style-arms long, haii-y 

 all round, short pointed ; achenes (seeds) -jij in., 

 5-ribbed, tapering to ihe base, covered with rather 

 stitf haii-s. 



large, branches with broad green toothed wings ; 

 leaves 2- . ^ by |-1 in., sessile, oblong, coarst ly toothed, 

 tips rounded , flowers white yellow or lilac in heads in 

 compound hairy terminal leafless flat clusters, heads 

 7 in. diam., discoid, flowers all tubular, outer bi-acts of 

 ht ads short-pointed, seeds small, 4-5-angled, smooth, 

 tuft of hairs on top, slender, 



large, velvety with glands and hairy, branches not 

 winged ; leaves \-'l ins. long, sessile, oblong and ovate 

 with broad tip, slightly toothed, rigid, nerves promi- 

 nent above and below ; flowers white, yellow or liiac 

 in heads in compound terminal flat leafless clusters, 

 heads j^ in. diam. ; flowers all tubular, outer bmcts of 

 heads woolly, somewhat pointed, seeds Email, 4-5- 

 angled, toft of hairs, reddish. 



small, greyish, hairy, velvety, branches slender ; 

 leaves 1-2, oblong, sessile, narrowed to (he base, 

 margin smooih or toothed at the lip, nerves oblique, 

 prominent on both surfaces ; flowers white yellow or 

 lilac in heads in compound flat leafless clusters, heads 

 \ in diam , longer than broad, bracts of heacs short 

 rounded blunt, outer ones with grey hairs. A weed 

 of cultivation. The leaves are aperient vand are used 

 to adulterate senna. 



