374 
Plants of the Punjab. 
SSS Eee 
Huerss, Erect, with ALTERNATE ExsTipULATE LOBED LEAVES. 
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PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
Anthemis 
odontostephana, 
CoMposITm. 
FB. B. I. iu. 312. 
N.-W. F. Province, 
Peshawar (Vicary). 
Baluchistan 
(Griffith). 
Allardia tomentosa, 
CoMPosIT. 
F. B. I. in. 313. 
Himalaya, 
13-16,000 ft. 
Kasbmir. 
Matriearia 
Chamomilla, 
Persian Chamomile, 
Babuna, suteigul. 
GomPposiTs. 
BB. 1. m2 SLs. 
The Plains. 
Matricaria preecox, 
CoMPoOSsIT&. 
F. B. I. iii. 316. 
N.-W. F. Province, 
Peshawar. 
small, perennial, stems many, from the root, grey 
velvety ; leaves 3-2 in. long, ovate, pinnately divided, 
segments entire or 3-5-lobed ; flowers and heads like the 
last species, but the floor of the heads covered with awl- 
shaped scales ; achenes crowned with blunt short teeth. 
small, perennial, tufted, covered with white wool, 
branches long, ascending, leafless upwards ; leaves 14-3 in. 
long, pinnately divided, oblong or linear-oblong, segments 
various ; flowers white, rosy or pink in terminal stalked 
heads, 2-3 in. diam., bracts of heads woolly, floor of head 
flat, naked, ligules 1 in. long, very many, entire, linear, 
disk-flowers tubular, 5-fid; achenes smooth, 5-angled, 
grooved and wrinkled, pale, pappus 4-} in. long, consist- 
ing of stiff purplish bristles, tips whitish or yellowish. 
small, annual or perennial, aromatic, much branched, 
smooth ; leaves 2-3 in, twice pinnately divided, segments 
thread-like ; flowers, inner tubular, yellow, outer ligulate, 
white in solitary, long stalked heads, $-? in. diam., bracts 
of heads oblong, margins white, floor of heads bare, pappus 
none, corolla inner tubular, 4-5-toothed, outer ligulate, 
ligule long, rarely short, anther-bases blunt, not divided ; 
achenes small, grey, 4-5 ribbed on one side. The flower 
heads and oil are used instead of true Chamomile (An- 
themis nobilis) as a tonic, febrifuge and in an infusion as an 
anodyne. 
like the last species, but not aromatic, leaves only 
once pinnately divided, bracts of heads with red margins, 
achenes ribbed on both sides, crowned with a lobed cup. 
This plant, when dry, may be mistaken for Anthemis 
odonto-stephana. 
