Plants of the Punjab. 187 | 
Herss, Eruot, with Opposite ExstTipULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Siegesbeckia 
orientalis, 
CoMposiITa. 
Bes fein. 303¢ 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree. 
Blainvillea latifolia, 
or rhomboidea, 
ComMposItTm. 
BeBe Lis 80t 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Below Sipi (Collett). 
Schlerocarpus 
africanus, 
Composit. 
P BoE i, 305. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla, 
in cornfields 
(Collett). 
Lear Marains ToorHenp. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS. 
medium size, sticky with crisped hairs, a common 
weed near cultivation, much branched, often purplish ; 
leaves 1-5 in. long, triangular ovate, deeply toothed, upper 
leaves almost without teeth, leaf stalks winged ; flowers 
yellow, rarely white, radiate with ray flowers, in heads 
+ in. diam., arranged in leafy branching racemes, bracts 
sticky in 2: rows, outer 5 long, narrow, spreading, inner 
shorter, erect, receptacles flat, covered with small concave 
scales, calyx hairs (pappus) none, outer corollas with rays 
(ligules) 2- or 3-lobed, inner corollas 3-5-lobed ; achenes 
curved, angled, blunt at the base. 
medium size, annual, stiff, much branched, roughly 
hairy; leaves 2-4 in. long, stalked, ovate or ovatelan- 
ceolate, hairy on both surfaces, short- or long-pointed, 
slightly round-toothed, upper leaves sometimes alternate ; 
flowers yellow or white, outer rayed in heads }-} in. diam., 
terminal at the end of branches or axillary, bracts few in 2 
rows, outer broad, leaf-like, inner passing into scales, 
receptacle covered with rigid concave scales each holding 
a flower, pappus of 2-5 unequal bristles joined into a ring, 
rays of outer flowers 2- or 3-toothed, corolla of inner (disk) 
flowers 5-toothed ; achenes 3-angled, inner ones often 
flattened. 
medium size, annual, roughly hairy ; leaves 14-8 in., 
ovate, short-pointed, toothed, stalked ; flowers yellow, in 
sessile or stalked heads in the forks or at the end of branches, 
heads 4-3 in. diam., bracts few, leaf-like, outer spreading, 
receptacle covered with large ribbed scales, rays of outer 
flowers broad, notched, spreading, corolla of disk flowers 
3-5-tuothed, pappus (calyx hairs) none; achenes curved, 
ribbed, enclosed by the rough boat-shaped scales of the 
receptacle, 
