Plants of the Punjab. 371 
Heres, Erect, with ALTERNATE ExstipuLATE LoBep LEAVEs. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Serratula pallida, 
Tricholepis elongata, 
Tricholepis tibetica, 
Volutarella 
divaricata, 
Badaward. 
CoMPosiITz. 
EE. Belin. 388; 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Sargodha, Shahpur 
District. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Zoegia purpurea, 
CoMPOSITA. 
B. B. I. ii. 384. 
Hills between 
Kashmir and 
Waziristan 
(Stewart). 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Centaurea Cyanus, 
Corn Flower or 
Blue bottle, 
CoMPoOsITz. 
FE. B. on 384: 
The Plains, west of 
the Jhelum. 
Baluchistan. 
(Hughes-Buller). 
see Herbs, Erect, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 
Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. : 
am > 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
medium size, annual, straggling, stiff, branches long, 
angled ; leaves 1-2 by }-2in., rarely 6 by 8 in., oblong, 
pinnately divided, lobes rounded with an abrupt point, 
crisped or waved ; flowers $in., pale purple in hard spiny 
heads, 4-1 by 1-3 in., bracts of heads with a long spread- 
ing or recurved spine, bristles of floor of head short, pappus 
hairs roughish silvery brown, corollas $ in. long, lobes 5, 
linear, anther-bases forked; achenes in., 4-5-angled, 
dotted, top broad. A troublesome weed. 
small, annual, slender, smooth ; leaves radical pin- 
nately divided, stem leaves undivided ; flowers purple, 
in long-stalked heads, floor of head densely bristly, bract 
of heads many, thin, bristly, tips bright purple, pappus 
of outer chaffy scales, middle long smooth bristles, inner 
short bristles, corollas 5-lobed, slender, anther-bases forked ; 
achenes ovoid, shining, obscurely ribbed, with concentric 
ridges below the top. 
medium size, annual or biennial, branched or not, 
slender, cottony ; leaves narrow, radical pinnately lobed 
with the terminal lobe largest or simple, stem-leaves 
linear ; flowers blue, in solitary or clustered heads, bracts 
of the heads oblong, cottony, blunt, broad tip with tooth- 
ed edges, floor of head densely bristly, outer corollas 
larger than inner, anther-bases forked, achenes oblong, 
somewhat 4-angled, grey, silky. 
BQ 
