Plants of the Punjab. 479 
Herss, UNBRANCHED WITH ALTERNATE ExstipuLATE Simpiy Luavas, 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTH, IN HEADS, INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE, 
Senecio alatus, 
CoMPosITm. 
BeBe it, 358 
Himalaya, 
6-9,000 ft 
Narkanda (Collett). 
The Chor. 
Senecio Kunthianus, 
Centaurea Cyanus, 
Centaurea depressa, 
margins broad, thin, receptacle flat, naked, corollas, inner 
tubular, bell-shaped, 5-fid, outer ligulate, ligules conspicu- 
ous, long, narrow, 8-toothed, style-arms blunt, tips minute- 
ly hairy, pappus white copious, soft ; achenes nearly cylin- 
dric, 5-10-ribbed 
medium size to large, smooth, velvety or cottony, stem 
short or long, stout, 1-4 ft., leaves 5-12 by 4-6 in., ovate- 
heart-shaped, or ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, toothed, 
thin, stalk long with broad toothed wings, stem beyond 
the leaves long, simple or branched ; flowers yellow in 
4-6-flowered slender, cylindric, shortly stalked heads 4-4 
in. diam., in short racemes, forming large, ovate, terminal 
branched clusters, bracts of receptacles 4-7, linear, blunt, 
velvety, corollas, inner tubular, 5-fid, outer 2: ligulate, 
ligules broad, conspicuous, minutely 8-toothed; achenes 
7, In. long, slender, smooth, or slightly velvety, ribbed, 
pappus white, much shorter than the tubular corollas. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
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see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobe 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL LIGULATE. 
Keelpinia linearis, 
CoMPOSITE. 
EB, hin, 392. 
The Plains, west of 
the Jhelum, to 
14,000 ft. 
Rawalpindi (Douie) 
Kashmir. 
small, annual, smooth, or slightly velvety, root slender, 
stem 6-12 in., leafy, sometimes branched; leaves 2-6 bys 
;5-t in., chiefly radical, linear, gradually narrowed at both 
ends, quite entire; flowers yellow, all ligulate in small 
stalked heads 3-4 in. diam., bracts of receptacle 5-7, narrow, 
nearly equal, thin, base keeled, outer ‘very few, small, 
receptacle naked, corollas all ligulate, ligules 5-tooth- 
ed, anther-bases forked; achenes 4-2 in. longer than 
the bracts, narrowly linear, incurved like birds’ claws, 
ribbed, dorsal ribs with hooked spines, terminal spines 
star-shaped. 
