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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 

 Flowers small, in heads. 



Bidens Wallichii, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 309. 

 Var. bipinnata. 

 The Plains to 

 8, 000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Dewal (Douie). 

 Dharmpur. 



Glossogyne 

 pinnatifida, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 310. 

 The Plains. 



very like the last species, but the leaves are twice 

 pinnatifid, segments cut and lobed variously, ligules 

 yellow. 



small, perennial, root spindle-shaped, woody, stem 

 and branches slender, forked, sparingly leafy ; leaves 1-2 

 in. with the stalk, triangular, divided into linear- pointed 

 segments, few, often turned down, leathery, flowering 

 branches 6-12 in., straight, stiff, grooved ; flowers small, 

 yellow, in few small heads, ^ in. diam., arranged in flat- 

 topped clusters, heads with flowers, all tubular or central 

 ones tubular and outer ligulate, receptacle small, flat, 

 scales thin, bracts in 2-3 series, | in., blunt, narrow, joined 

 below, pappus (calyx) of 2 bristles, rough from reversed 

 hairs, corolla tubular, 5-toothed, anther-bases blunt, style- 

 arms with long hairy tips ; achenes |-| in., deeply grooved, 

 black. 



Flowers not in heads. 



Stamens four. 



Scrophularia lucida, 



SOROPHULARIACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 256. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



medium size, perennial, stout, stems somewhat 

 4-angled, smooth or glandular, velvety ; leaves 1-2 in., 

 singly or doubly pinnately divided, segments spreading, 

 very unequal, oblong, ovate or lanceolate, margins deeply 

 cut or toothed, horizontal ; flowers small, dingy green- 

 purple in opposite stalked loosely spreading clusters, 

 forming terminal branching racemes, bracts linear, calyx 

 5-fid, lobes half as long as the corolla, rounded, margin 

 thin, corolla tube J-| in., broad, very short, lobes 5, 2 

 upper longer than the others, lowest spreading, stamens 4, 

 in unequal pairs, turned downwards, hardly projecting 

 out, staminode round or kidney-shaped ; capsule round, 

 few- seeded, seeds oblong, deeply pitted. 



