Plants of the Punjab. 289 
Herss, Error, with ALTERNATE EXxstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Jurinea modesta, 
ComposiTz. 
He.B. Ae i. S78 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Peshawar (Vicary). 
Volutareila 
divaricata, 
Centaurea Cyanus, 
Centaurea depressa, 
Centaurea 
polycephala, 
Carthamus 
tinctorius, 
Dicoma, | 
tomentosa, 
CoMPOSITA. 
FB Bote ans 387. 
The Plains. 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR, 
small, annual, cottony, branche! from: the base, 
branches short, ending in very long leafless s!:nder one- 
headed stalks; leaves 2-3 in., lanceolate. short-pointed, 
sessile, running down the stem, sometimes widely toothed ; 
flowers 4 in., purple, in solitary heads, 1 in. diam., 
bracts of the heads in many series, overlapping, inner 
narrow, erect, sometimes red, outer siorter, ovate, 
long-pointed, green with thin margins, bristles of the 
receptacle half as long as the flowers, corollas slender, 5- 
toothed, anther-bases forked, pappus hairs 4 in., white, 
shining, inner hairs stiff, 2 much Jonger than the 
others, flattened ; achenes + in., flatten: d, angles thickened, 
pale, smooth, shining. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
gmall to medium size, annual, much branched, covered 
with white cottony wool; leaves 1-3 in., linear, blunt 
or short-pointed ; flowers } in., white or pale yellow, in 
many solitary, nearly axillary and terminal heads, 3-1 in. 
diam., bracts of the heads 4-2 in., linear-lanceolate, spinous, 
shining, tips yellow, stiff, corollas 5-toothed, anther-bases 
forked, bearded, pappus hairs } in., pale brown, outer 
slender, inner lanceolate-awl-shaped, ribbed, margins 
wavy; achenes } in., short, broad, top-shaped, densely 
silky. 
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