Plants of the Punjab. 



187 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



Siegesbeckia 

 orientalis. 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 303. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Murree. 



Flowers, minute, in heads. 



medium size, sticky with crisped hairs, a common 

 weed near cultivation, much branched, often purplish ; 

 leaves 1-5 in. long, triangular ovate, deeply toothed, upper 

 leaves almost without teeth, leaf stalks winged ; flowers 

 yellow, rarely white, radiate with ray flowers, in heads 

 I in. diam., arranged in leafy branching racemes, bracts 

 sticky in 2 rows, outer 5 long, narrow, spreading, inner 

 shorter, erect, receptacles flat, covered with small concave 

 scales, calyx hairs (pappus) none, outer corollas with rays 

 (hgules)2or o-lobed, inner corollas 8-5-lobed ; achenes 

 curved, angled, blunt at the base. 



Blainvillea latifolia, 

 or rhomboidea, 



C0MP0SIT.E. 



F. B. I. iii. 305. 



The Plains to 



5,000 ft. 



Below Sipi (Collett). 



medium size, annual, stiff, much branched, roughly 

 hairy; leaves 2-4 in. long, stalked, ovate or ovatelan- 

 ceolate, hairy on both surfaces, short- or long-pointed, 

 slightly round-toothed, upper leaves sometimes alternate ; 

 flowers yellow or Avhite, outer rayed in heads i-| in. diam., 

 terminal at the end of branches or axillary, bracts few in 2 

 rows, outer broad, leaf-like, inner passing into scales, 

 receptacle covered with rigid concave scales each holding 

 a flower, pappus of 2-5 unequal bristles joined into a ring, 

 rays of outer flowers 2- or3-toothed, corolla of inner (disk) 

 flowers 5-toothed ; achenes 3-angled, inner ones often 

 flattened. 



Schlerocarpus 

 africanus, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 305. 



The Plains to 



5,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla, 



in cornfields 



(Collett). 



medium size, annual, roughly hairy ; leaves l-|-3 in., 

 ovate, short-pointed, toothed, stalked ; flowers yellow, in 

 sessile or stalked heads in the forks or at the end of branches, 

 heads -^-| in. diam., biacts few, leaf-like, outer spreading, 

 receptacle covered with large riblx'd scales, rays of outer 

 flowers broad, notched, spreading, corolla of disk flowers 

 3-5- toothed, pappus (calyx hairs) none ; achenes curved, 

 ribbed, enclosed by the rough boat-shaped scales of the 

 receptacle. 



