Plants uf the Punjab. 375 
Hures, Ersot with ALTERNATE HixstipULATE LoBED Leavss. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
Senecio graciliflorus, 
CoMPOSIT A. 
HS. an ose 
Himalaya, 
8-13,000 ft. 
Mahasu, Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Patarnala, 
Kashmir. 
Senecio 
chrysanthemoides, 
CoMPosiITA. 
HB. iio. 
Himalaya, 
8-138,000 ft. 
Simla, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Senecio 
coronopifolius, 
ComMposiItTaé. 
Pye. inodeh. 
Northern Kashmir, 
8-17,000 ft. 
(Thomson). 
Senecio Thomsoni, 
Senecio 
pedunculatus, 
Composit a. 
F. B. I. iii. 342. 
Himalaya, 
9-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir, 
large, annual, smooth, stem round, zigzag, sometimes 
angled and grooved; leaves 4-6 by 2-4 in., thin, stalked 
at the base, not lobed at the base, pinnately divided into 
oblong, short-pointed, coarsely toothed segments, upper 
leaves linear, sessile ; flowers yellow, in numerous, often 
drooping, 5-8-flowered narrowly cylindric, 3 in. long, heads, 
in small clusters, forming terminal flat-topped branching 
racemes, bracteoles many, narrow, bracts of heads 5-7, 
linear, floor of heads naked, corollas inner 5-toothed, outer 
of 3-5 ligules deeply toothed, pappus white, 4; in., anther- 
bases blunt ; achenes ;, in., ribbed. 
like the last species, but stem not zig-zag, leaves 
larger, terminal lobe much the largest, ovate, irregularly 
lobed and toothed, stem-clasping with basal lobes, deeply 
toothed, upper leaves with many lobes, leaves often 
purple beneath, bracts of heads 10-12, oblong, ray flowers 
8-12, ligules 3-toothed. 
small, annual, much branched from the base, slender, 
smooth, leaves 1-2 in., scattered, all on the stem, fleshy, 
narrow, pinnately divided, lower stalked, upper stem- 
clasping, lobed at the base, heads 3 in. diam., few, many- 
flowered, on long bracteolate stalks forming loose flat 
topped branching racemes, bracts of heads 15-20, narrow, 
short-pointed, ray flowers 8-12, ligules rolled up, inner 
flowers very slender, achenes rough, pappus white; for 
other characters see the last species. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
small to medium size, annual, slender, much-branched 
from the base; leaves all stem ones pinnately divided, 
lobes linear, base simple or dilated and half stem clasping, 
flowers yellow in many-flowered narrowly bell-shaped, long- 
stalked heads 4 in. forming loose, flat-topped clusters, 
bracts round heads, 10-16 linear, long-pointed, ligules 
very short, achenes slender, pappus white ; for other cha- 
racters see the last species. 
