Plants of the Punjab. 327 
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Heres, Erect, with ALTERNATE ExstIpULATE SIMPLE LeAvus. 
Lear Mareins ToorHep. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Blumea lacera, 
Kakronda, janglt 
mult. 
Composiram. 
Helin. 268: 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Blumea hieracifolia, 
ComposiTa. 
Re Bs ler, 269. 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Laggera flava, 
Composirz. 
es teen 2 70; 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Laggera alata, 
CoMPosItTm. 
PAB: lem, 27 1. 
Himalaya, 
1-6,000 ft. 
Simla. 
Sutle; and Giri 
Valleys (Collett). 
very like the last species, but smelling of turpentine, 
flowers yellow, achenes smooth, not hairy. The root is 
used asa febrifuge and an astringent in Indian medi- 
cine. 
like the last species, but often unbranched or with a 
stout stem, heads $-? in. diam., in tuft-like or spike-like 
long branching racemes. 
small to medium size, annual, slender or slightly 
velvety, stem cylindrical, branched at the top or not, 
srooved; leaves 1-3 in. long, lower stalked, upper ovate- 
lanceolate or with a broad tip, half stem-clasping, not 
prolonged down the stem, sharply toothed ; flowers minute, 
bright yellow, all tubular, on few heads, 4+ in. diam., on 
slender branches of loose clusters, bracts of heads, outer 
ovate, short-pointed, inner lanceolate, long-pointed, all 
smooth or with scattered bristles on the margins, corollas, 
inner tubular, 5-toothed, outer thread-ike, minutely 
toothed, anther-bases 2-lobed or forked, style-arms as 
in Blumea above, pappus white ; achenes very minute, 
smooth. 
medium size to large, perennial, much branched, 
velvety or felted, sometimes glandular, stem with broad 
entire wings ; leaves 1-4 in. long, narrowly oblong, short- 
pointed, rough above, woolly beneath, sessile, prolonged 
down the stem; flowers minute, purplish, in main heads 
4 in. diam., in axillary racemes, on winged branches often 
forming a large terminal leafy cluster, drooping in fruit, 
bracts of the heads many, narrow, stiff, short-pointed, 
outer shorter, green, often recurved, inner as long as the 
flowers, pappus white, corollas as in the last species ; 
achenes small, hairy. 
