Plants of the Punjab. 861 
; : 
‘Herss, Erucr, wits ALTERNATE Exstiputarr Losep Leaves, 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
-Dichrocephala 
latifolia, 
CompositTz. 
F. B. I. i. 245. 
Himalaya, 
1-9,000 ft. 
‘Simla (Collett). 
Dichrocephala 
‘ehrysanthemifolia, 
Composit. 
BeBe En. 945: 
Himalaya, 
6-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Cyathocline lyrata, 
Composit. 
Bebo lle 240. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). , 
Blumea laciniata, 
CoMPOSIT. 
F: B. I. mi. 264: 
The Plains. 
medium size, annual, velvety or hairy ; leaves 14-4 in., 
stalked, pinnately divided lobes, irregularly coarsely 
toothed, terminal lobe broadly ovate; flowers minute, 
inner yellow, outer white, in heads, + in. diam., discoid on 
slender stalks forming branching racemes, pappus of inner 
flowers none, of outer 2 minute bristles, corollas, outer 
very slender, 2-3-toothed, inner 4 or 5-lobed; achenes 
smooth, flat. 
like the last species, but the leaves are smaller, stem- 
clasping, heads ¢ in. diam., usually solitary on thick, 
diverging stalks, corollas turning dull purple before wither- 
ing. 
small to medium size, annual, velvety, sweet scented ‘ 
leaves 1-5 in., sessile, pinnately divided, lobes narrow, 
sharply toothed ; flowers very minute, rose purple white in 
discoid heads % in. diam., arranged in small rounded branch- 
ed flat-topped clusters, floor of heads elevated, concave, 
naked, bracts of heads in 2 series, lanceolate margins 
transparent, pappus none, inner ‘flowers 2-toothed, outer 
5-toothed, anther-bases not tailed: achenes (seeds) minute 
oblong, smooth. This plant usually grows on the borders 
of rice fields and the banks of streams and ditches. 
large, annual, stout, velvety or woolly ; leaves large, 
membranous with lobes pointing back or with a large ter- 
minal lobe or almost pinnately divided, toothed ; flowers 
minute, yellow, in many heads, }-} in. diam., on sepals in 
flat-topped open clusters, floor of head flat, naked, velvety, 
bracts of head outer few short, inner many, narrow, short- 
pointed, slightly longer than the flowers, pappus white, 
inner flowers 5-toothed, outer 2-8-toothed, anther-bages 
forked, tails small, slender; achenes minute, ribbed, 
silky. 
