476 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herps, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVSS. 
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Ainslizea aptera, 
Aaron’s Rod, 
CoMPOSIT&. 
F. B. I. iii. 388. 
Himalaya, 
6-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Solidago 
Virga-aurea, 
Golden rod, 
CoMPOSITS. 
HB, Eeitis 245. 
Himalaya, 
5-9,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
sessile, narrow, ?-4 in. long, in spikes, bracts of heads many, 
erect, smooth, stiff, short-pointed, inner long, outer shorter ; 
flowers 1-4, white or pinkish, 3 ina head as a rule, pappus 
feathery brownish, corolla tube slender, unequally- 5-lobed ; 
achenes + in., softly silky, 10-ribbed. 
very like the last species but in habit as well as ap- 
pearance, but radical leaves not winged, flowering stalks 
longer, heads in clusters. 
INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
small to large, perennial, smooth or velvety, stem 
stout, rarely branched; leaves lanceolate, lower 4-5 in., 
stalked, toothed, upper smaller, sessile,. entire ; flowers 
all yellow, ray flowers few in one row, strap-shaped, disk 
flowers tubular, 5-fid, in many heads, ? in. long, crowded in 
a long, leafy terminal branching raceme, bracts of reeep- 
tacle unequal, narrow, short-pointed, receptacle naked, 
pappus long, rough, style-arms flattened ; achenes 8-12- 
ribbed, smooth or slightly velvety. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
Aster 
diplostephioides, 
CoMPOSIT®. 
BY B. i 10./251, 
Himalaya, 
8-11,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
medium size to large, stout, stem 12-18 in., leafy, 
leaves 2-8 in., lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, sessile, erect, 
short-pointed, entire, lower narrowed at the base ; flowers 
inner yellow, tubular, 5-cleft, outer blue, long, strap-shaped, 
in solitary heads 8 in. diam., bracts of receptacle lanceolate, 
leafy, outer long up to 1 in., pappus reddish, outer very 
short, white, style-arms flattened ; achenes } in., flattened. 
silky. 
