872 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herbs, Ergot, with ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE LOBED LEAVES, 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Centaurea depressa, 
CoMPOSIT A. 
F. B. I. in. 385. 
The Hills west of 
the Indus. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Centaurea 
Calcitrapa, 
Star-thistle, 
Composit ®. 
F. B. I. iu. 384. 
The Plains to 
8,500 ft. 
Kashmir, 
Rawalpindi, 
Choa Saidan Shah 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Centaurea iberica, 
CoMPOSIT® 
F. B. I. iii. 385. 
Kashmir, 
5-6,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
’ (Stocks). 
Centaurea 
polycephala, 
Composit &. 
F. B, I. iii. $85. 
The Plains, west of 
the Jhelum. 
Peshawar (Stewart). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
very like the last species, but the heads are larger 
and the leaves are broader. 
like the last species, but the branches angular, widely 
spreading, bracts narrow, terminating in a yellow spine, 
flowers purple, pappus none, achenes small, white. 
very like the last species, but heads smaller, flowers 
paler, pappus very short. 
like the last species, but the branches with round 
white stems, outer bracts green, leaflike, pappus scaly. 
