116 
Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Vernonia 
einerascens, 
CoMPOSIT®. 
Peet. 1. 257 
The Plains. 
The Salt Range. 
Waziristan. 
Baluchistan. 
Pluchea ovalis, 
ComMpPosiITm. 
HB. Tenis 272. 
The Salt Range 
(Aitchison). 
Pluchea Wallichiana, 
CoMPOSITA. 
ey. 11. 272. 
The Plains 
(Falconer and 
Stewart). 
Pluchea lanceolata, 
Sarmet, reshamt. 
CoMPOSITA. 
Pew. 1. 14. 272. 
The Plains. 
Pluchea arguta, 
Composit a. 
po... i. Zo. 
The Plains 
(Aitchison). 
PETALS UNITED. 
Flowers, minute, in heads. 
medium size, much branched, grey velvety, branches 
grooved, white ; leaves 4-1} in., oblong, rounded, tapering 
to a narrow base, often with an abrupt tip, sometimes 
toothed, gland-dotted, velvety on both surfaces ; flowers 
+ in. diam., purple, in solitary heads, on the ends of the 
branches of flat-topped clusters, bracts round the heads, 
4 in., m many series, linear, inner longest, calyx of hairs 
(pappus) 4 in., white, persistent, corollas smooth, slender, 
all tubular, teeth 5, narrow, anther bases blunt, style- 
arms long, hairy all round, short-pointed ; achenes (seeds). 
;, m., 5-ribbed, tapering to the base, covered with rather 
stiff hairs. 
large, branches with broad green toothed wings ; 
leaves 2-24 by #-1 in., sessile, oblong, coarsely toothed, 
tips rounded ; flowers white, yellow or lilac in heads in 
compound hairy terminal leafless flat clusters, heads } in. 
diam., discoid, flowers all tubular, outer bracts of heads 
short-pointed ; seeds small, 4-5-angled, smooth, tuft of 
hairs on top, slender. ; 
large, velvety with glands and hairy, branches not 
winged ; leaves 1-2 in. long, sessile, oblong and ovate 
with broad tip, slightly toothed, rigid, nerves promi- 
nent above and below; flowers white, yellow or lilac in 
heads in compound terminal flat leafless clusters, heads 
+ in. diam., flowers all tubular, outer bracts of heads 
woolly, somewhat pointed. seeds small, 4-5-angled, tuft 
of hairs reddish. 
small, greyish, hairy, velvety, branches slender ; 
leaves 1-2, oblong, sessile, narrowed to the base, margin 
smooth or toothed at the tip, 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 heads short-rounded, blunt, 
outer ones with grey hairs. A weed of cultivation. 
The leaves are aperient and are used to adulterate senna. 
medium gixe, branches stout, velvety with glands ; 
leaves 1-14 by 4-2 in., lanceolate or ovate with broad 
tips, coarsely toothed, base with ear-shaped projections 
or not; flowers white, yellow or lilac in heads, stalked 
solitary or few, almost in clusters, heads 4-4 in. diam., 
bracts of heads narrow, sharp-pointed, rigid. 
