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Plants of the Punjab. 
PrRostRATE HERBS WITH ALTERNATE EXXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Ceesulia axillaris, 
ComposiItz. 
Ts dew Oks 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley, in rice 
fields (Collett). 
Pulicaria 
angustifolia, 
Cotula aurea, 
Centipeda 
orbicularis, 
Nakkchikm, 
pachittie. 
ComMposITa&. 
ft B.A dit, Obl. 
The Plains, in moist 
places. 
Saussurea Atkinsoni, 
CoMPOSIT. 
F. B. I. ii. 867, 
Himalaya, 
10-13,000 ft. 
Kashm yr, 
small, annual, smooth, stems 6-12 in., stout, branched, 
prostrate or almost erect ; leaves 2-6 in., sessile, narrowly 
lanceolate, long-pointed, tapering to the forked base, teeth 
small, far apart; flowers blue, in axillary sessile round 
heads, 4-2 in. diam., each head consisting of minor heads 
with one flower, bracts 2 to each flower, opposite, surround- 
ing it, keeled and winged at the back, tips erect, free 
pappus scales with a sharp point, corolla tubular, 5-toothed ; 
achenes -1-4 in., flattened, a promiment ridge down the 
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centre of each face, with scattered hairs. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire, Flowers in heads, Inner Tubular, Outer Ligulate. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 
very small, annual, smooth or rather woolly, stems 
spreading from the root, very many, 4-8 in. long, slender, 
leafy ; leaves 4-4 in. long, oblong-ovate with a broad tip, 
teeth few; flowers yellow, very minute in round solitary 
axillary almost sessile heads, ,*-4 in. diam., corollas bell- 
shaped, 4-fid, floor of head naked, bracts of the head in 
2 series, spreading in fruit, pappus none ; achenes 4-angled, 
tip blunt, angles hairy, hairs simple. 
stemless, rootstock undivided, smooth, 0. mid-ribs of 
leaves beneath velvety, leaves 3-5, 24-4 by 1}-3 in., stalked 
or sessile, spreading flat on the ground, broadly ovate 
with a broad tip, or oblong with rounded ends, thin, toothed, 
net-veined ; flowers 4 in. long, bluish purple in a sessile 
solitary head, ?-1 in. long, inner bracts of head linear-oblong, 
thin, outer ovate-lanceolate, erect or recurved, smooth, 
or margins velvety, corollas all tubular; achenes smooth 
pappus } in, brown, outer bristles few, roughish, 
