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Heres, Erect, with Opposite Exstrpunats Lospep LuAvss. 
Seabiosa Olivieri, 
DIpPsacE. 
By Be L. 11. 219: 
The Low Hills of 
Peshawar (Vicary). 
Rawalpindi. 
Hazara (Stewart). 
The Park, 
Rawalpindi. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Seabiosa speciosa, 
DIPSACER, 
Lipgl oisa erii ag ee 
Himalaya, 
7-9,000 ft. 
Kashmir 
Kagan (Douie). 
Bidens tripartita, 
Three-cleft Bidens, 
Compositz. 
Habe Fin, 809: 
Himalaya, 
3-5,000 ft. 
Dharmpur. 
Bidens pilosa, 
ComposiTm. 
F. B. I. 111 3809. 
Var. pilosa proper. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Kasauli. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS SMALL, IN HEADS. 
small, annual, branched, hairy, stem leafy; leaves 
2 by ¢ in., narrowly oblong, slightly toothed, or 4 by 2 
in., deeply divided into pointed lobes; flowers small, 
purple, in few-flowered small terminal heads, bracts } in., 
oblong-lanceolate, surrounding the heads, calyx of 2 por- 
tions epicalyx (involucel) } in. diam., 16-20-ribbed, 
calyx proper with short teeth and bristles 4 in., barbed, 
brown, corolla tubular, 4-5-lobed, all equal, much shorter 
than the calyx bristles, hairy without, stamens 4, style 
filiform; achenes crowned by the epicalyx and calyx 
bristles, silky. This plant is closely akin to Scabiosa 
arvensis of Britain. 
medium size, branched, rootstock perennial, leaves 
2 by 4 in., oblong, pinnatifid at the base with small lobes, 
flowers small, mauve, in many-flowered large, terminal, 
stalked, radiate heads, bracts 4-3 in., narrowly oblong, 
involucel, § in., nearly bell-shaped, calyx bristles nearly 
black, corollas with rays 4 in., corollas without rays in the 
centre of the flower 4 in., achenes 4 in., silky below, upper 
8-ribbed, deeply pitted within the ribs; otherwise like 
the last species. 
medium size, annual, smooth, velvety above; leaves 
3-5 in., digitately 3-5-lobed, lobes lanceclate, toothed, 
terminal longest ; flowers small, yellow, in discoid heads, 
2 in. diam., on short, erect stalks, bracts longer than the 
flowers, in 2 or 8 series joined below, outer green, longer 
than the flowers, inner thin, receptacle with narrow flat 
scales nearly as long as the flowers, calyx (pappus) of 
2 barbed bristles on the achene, corolla tubes narrow, 
dilated at the top, 5-toothed, style-arms hairy ; acheneg 
z in., smooth, wedge-shaped, barbed along the sides, 
bristles very short, 2. 
small, hairy or smooth, leaves 8-5 in., pinnatifid, 
lobes 8-5, ovate, toothed, flowers tubular in the centre, 
along the edge supplied with white ligules (rays), pappus 
of 3 barbed bristles, acheneg linear, rough; otherwise 
like the last species. 
