416 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH OpposiTE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Valeriana Wallichii, 
Bala mushk. 
VALERIANACES. 
Fh OBo4an/ P18. 
Valerianella 
dentata, 
Narrowfooted 
Cornsalad, 
VALERIANACER. 
ees O14: 
Kashmir. 
Valerianella 
Szovitziana, 
VALERIANACEA. 
Hee Po 2 1A: 
Kashmir, 
5-6,000 ft. 
Adenostemma 
viscosum, 
CoMPOSITm. 
F. B. 1. in. 242. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
Saussurea 
obvallata, 
Saussurea Schuitzii, 
Saussurea Atkinsoni, 
Saussurea 
sorocephala, 
PETALS UNITED. 
like the last species, but the radical leaves are sharp- 
pointedly toothed; fruit hairy, stem leaves sometimes 
compound. The root is used in Indian medicine as an 
anti-spasmodic. 
small, oe branching, smooth or minutely velvety ; 
leaves 1-14 by }-}in., oblong, entire or somewhat toothed ; 
flowers white, in small heads forming flat-topped branching” 
clusters, bracts small, narrowly lanceolate, calyx obliquely 
abruptly cut across, toothed, much shorter than the fruit, 
corolla-tube short, plese 5, spreading, stamens 3, style~ 
minutely 3-fid; fruit ; im., ovoid, velvety, barren cells 
reduced to thread- like ridges, the 2 thread-like cells 
forming a rim round an ovate-oblong slight depression. 
small to medium size, annual, minutely velvety, ‘i 
2 by } in., oblong-linear, somewhat toothed, fruit $-} in., 
ovate-oblong, scarcely curved, velvety or hairy, ‘barren 
cells as large as the fertile, calyx shortly cylindric, with 
one long horizontal linear tooth ; for other characters see 
the last species. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS. 
ALL TUBULAR. 
medium size, annual, sticky and velvety, or smooth, 
robust or slender ; leaves 6 by 38 in., lanceolate or ovate, 
coarsely toothed, narrowed into the stalk, uppermost 
eel - flowers minute, white, all tubular in discoid heads 
Fy forming flat-topped branching clusters, bracts round, 
et ereen, in 2-series, pappus of 3 or 4 short club- like 
scales, corollas } in., 5-lobed, dilated upwards, style-arms 
long, thick ; achenes } in., 8-4 angled, sticky. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
