362 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, with ALTERNATE ExstipuntATE Lossp Lzavzs. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Blumea 
membranacea, 
Composit”. 
F, B. I. iu. 265. 
The Plains. 
Laggera pterodonta, 
Laggera aurita, 
Carpesium 
trachelifolium, 
Xanthium 
strumarium, 
Burweed, 
Chota dhatura, 
ban-okra, wangan 
tsurue 
ComposiTH. 
F. B. I. iu. 308. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Matricaria 
chamomilla, 
Cotula anthemoides, 
Babuna. 
ComMposiTa. 
A Re re hes 
The Plains. 
very like the last species, but more slender, more 
branched, flower stalks slender, glandular, floor of head 
very narrow, smooth, bracts slender with scattered bristles 
on the margins. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 
Toothed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
medium size to large, annual, rough, coarse ; leaves 
long-stalked, heart-shaped, lobed, toothed, triangular, 2 
by 1 in., or circular, 4 in. diam., ; flowers male and females 
in separate heads, combined in axillary or terminal clus- 
ters on the same plant, male heads highest, round, 4 in. 
diam., bracts few, short,‘narrow, in one series, floor of head 
cylindric, flowers many, each in a transparent seale, 
pappus none, corolla white or green, 5-toothed, female 
heads ovoid, $ in. long, outer bracts few, short, inner 
many, in one series, narrow, united, covered with hooked 
bristles and crowned with 2-hooked beaks, flowers 2, 
pappus and corolla none, style branches long, protruding 
between the beaks, achenes ovoid, thick, enclosedin the 
hardened bracts. ‘This weed is common round villages, it 
is a good diuretic, useful in irritability of the bladder, in 
gleet and leucorrheea. An oil is expressed from the seeds. 
gee Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, Inner, 
flowers tubular, Outer ligulate. 
small, annual, hairy or almost smooth, often prostrate 5 
leaves 4-4 in., much divided, segments lobed, lobes trian- 
cular-lanceolate, stalks half stem-clasping ; flowers minute, 
yellow, in solitary terminal heads 4-4 in. diam., on thread. 
like naked stalks, floor of heads nearly flat, tubercled, bracts 
of heads nearly in 2 series, margins transparent, inner 
