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Plants of the Punjab. 
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Heres, Erect, wiru ALTERNATE EXxsTirpULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lear Marerns ToorHEeD. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Conyza japonica, 
Compositm. 
ete lit 20. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Sula (Collett). 
Conyza viscidula, 
ComPosirTm. 
Balsall. 200. 
Himalaya, 
1-7,000 ft. 
Mashobra (Collett). 
Blumea amplectens, 
ComposiITa. 
i. Beals 260; 
The Plains. 
Rawalpindi (Douie). 
Rohtak. 
Gurgaon. 
Blumea Wightiana, 
Composita. 
BAe Lin 261; 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valleys below 
Simla (Collett). 
small, annual, silky or woolly, stem often unbranched ; 
leaves 1-3 in. (radical often longer), ovate with a broad 
tip prolonged into the short stalk, or lanceolate, coarsely 
sharp-toothed or round-toothed, upper leaves half stem- 
clasping, oblong, or ovate-oblong, often entire ; flowers all 
tubular, yellow, in globose heads } in. diam., arranged 
in terminal flat-topped clusters, bracts of heads narrowly 
lanceolate, short-pointed with transparent edges, pappus 
1 in., 2reddish, corollas 5-toothed, anther-bases blunt, 
entire, style-arms flattened ; achenes ,{; in., nearly smooth, 
margined. 
medium size to large, sticky with glands, much 
branched above, leaves 2-4 in., lanceolate, narrowed at 
both ends, nearly sessile, sticky on both sides, sharply 
toothed, sometimes entire, heads in loose clusters, bracts 
of heads long-pointed, pappus 4-4 in. ; for other characters 
see the last species. 
small, annual, bushy, softly hairy; leaves 4-14 in. 
long, oblong or ovate with a broad tip, blunt or short- 
pointed, half stem-clasping; flowers minute, yellow, in 
solitary long-stalked heads, +4 in. diam., bracts of heads 
_very slender, inner hair pointed, base of head (receptacle) 
flat, naked, calyx hair (pappus) scanty, reddish, corollas 
tubular, filiform, 2-3-toothed, inner slender, 5-toothed, 
anther-bases forked, tails small, slender, style-arms short ; 
achenes oblong. A common weed. 
small to medium size, silky or woolly, often sticky 
with glandular hairs, leaves 14-2 by $-1 in., lower ovate, 
stalked or nearly sessile, upper smaller, linear or lanceo- 
late, sessile, flowers minute, purple or a few yellow, 
in numerous heads, } in. diam., forming stalked ter- 
minal or axillary clusters, bracts of heads, outer few, short, 
inner many, narrow, long-pointed, slightly longer than 
the flowers, achenes minute, angled, slightly hairy ; for 
other characters see the last species. 
