Plants of the Punjab. 325 
Hurss, Erucr, wirh ALTERNATE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Epilobium 
parviflorum, 
Hoary Epilobe, 
ONAGRACEA. 
F. B. 1. 1. 584. 
Himalaya, 
5-7,000 ft. 
Simla, Sutlej 
Valley (Collett). 
Epilobium 
roseum, 
Vernonia cinerea, 
Sahadevi. 
Composit. 
Lived Bia Gen eS 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Dharampur. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes- Buller). 
Vernonia 
anthelmintiea, 
Bakchi, kaliziri: 
CoMPposiTa. 
Rob. lait: 256. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below 
Simla (Collett). 
Dharampur. 
Synj. 
Vernonia 
cinerascens, 
Solidago virga-aurea, 
Lear Mareins ToorTHED. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
like the last species, but smaller, flowers a_ little 
smaller, leaves not stem-clasping, stigmas ultimately 
spreading, not recurved. 
see Herbs, Erect, 
Toothed. 
Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
small to medium size, annual, grey velvety, 
grooved ; leaves $-8 in., ovate or lanceolate, hairy, blunt 
cr short-pointed, thin, nearly sessile, teeth few, coarse ; 
flowers minute, pinkish-purple in many heads, } in. diam., 
forming rounded or open and flat-topped clusters, main 
stalks slender, bracteate, bracts round heads linear-lance- 
olate, silky outside, inner longer than outer, calyx hairs 
(pappus) long, white ; corolla tubes slender, equal, 5-lobed, 
anther-bases blunt, style-arms long, hairy ; achenes } in., 
smooth, tipped with the white or dirty white pappus hairs, 
4 in. long. 
large, annual, stout, glandular, velvety near the top, 
leafy and much branched, leaves 3-5 in., ovate-lanceolate, 
coarse-toothed, long-pointed, narrowed into a short stalk, 
rough, heads 4-3? in. diam., barely clustered, stalks long, 
dilated above, bracts of heads with broad purplish tips, 
hairy, inner shorter than outer, pappus hairs tawny, 
corollas unequal, achenes + in., ribbed ; for other characters 
see the last species. This plant is found near villages, 
planted or as an escape ; the seeds are used in skin diseases, 
and to drive away fleas and as a vermifuge. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple - 
