Plants of the Punjab. 449 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH Opposite ExstipuLATE LoBep LEAVES, 
Gerbera lanuginosa, 
Kapasi, sung. 
Compositm. 
He Bale 390: 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree. 
Kashmir. 
Gerbera Kunzeana, 
CoMPOSsITa. 
F. B. I. iii. 890. 
Himalaya, 
7-12,000 ft. 
Hattu (Collett), 
Kashmir, 
Crepis sibirica, 
Crepis tenuifolia, 
Crepis Stoliczkai, 
Pterotheca 
Faleoneri, 
Taraxacum, 
officinale, 
Dandelion, 
Dudal, kanphut, 
shamukei. 
CompositTm. 
H. Bove 401: 
Himalaya, 
1-18,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Mashobra, Mahasu. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS. 
INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
small, perennial, silky woolly ; leaves radical 24-6 by 
3-3 in., ovate or lanceolate with a broad tip, lobulate to- 
wards the base, or pinnately divided with a large end lobe, 
smooth, shining above, densely cottony below ; flowers 
white, in solitary heads on long leafless stalks, 4-12 in. long, 
bracts of heads many, erect, inner slightly longer than the 
pappus, outer shorter, floor of head flat, naked, pappus 
abundant, white, barbed, corolla tube slender, 2-lipped, 
inner 3-4-toothed, outer 3-toothed, anther bases divided, 
long-tailed, style-arms blunt ; achenes rough, flattened, 
ribbed, narrowed at the tip. The white felt on the back 
of the leaves is used for tinder, to stop bleeding, also for 
weaving into a coarse cloth. 
like the last species, but with thread-like bracts on 
the flower stalks, pappus chestnut-brown. 
ALL LIGULATE. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, perennial, juice milky, root woody, upright ; ) 
leaves all radical, 2-8 in., narrowly oblong, pinnately divid- 
ed, lobes linear or triangular, pointing back, sessile ; 
flowers yellow, in smooth solitary heads on a leafless hollow 
stalk, 2-8 in. long, bracts of the head, inner linear, erect, 
almost equal, margins often white, tips usually thickened 
or hooked, outer short, ovate, erect or recurved, floor of 
head flat, naked, pappus abundant, white, soft, not 
feathery, ligules long, spreading, 3-5-toothed, often brown 
on the back, style-arms long ; achenes smooth, flattened, 
ribbed, narrowed to the base, minutely spiny above the 
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