Plants of the Punjab. 



287 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals united. 



Gnaphalium 

 indicum, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 289. 

 The Plains to 

 1,000 ft. 



Flowers minute in heads, all tubular. 



annual, slender, more or less covered with white 

 wool, stems many, leafy branches slender, leaves |-1| 

 in., linear-ovate with broad tips or oblong, narrowed 

 to the base with rounded tips and an abrupt point, woolly 

 on both surfaces, lower leaves shortly stalked, heads ^ 

 in. diam., in simple or branched leafy spikes or in ovoid 

 clusters, bracts of the heads linear-oblong, short-pointed, 

 pale, reddish-brown or yellow, inner nearly smooth, 

 achenes minutely rough ; for other characters see the last 

 species. 



Pulicaria foliolosa, 



Aramhu. 

 Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 298. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Lace). 



medium size, annual, velvety or felted, much branched ; 

 leaves 1-6 in., linear-oblong, or lanceolate with a broad 

 tip, tips recurved, short-pointed, base broad or contracted, 

 I stem-clasping ; flowers minute, yellow, all tubular in 

 solitary woolly glandular heads, I in. diam., on very slen- 

 der stalks, bracts of the heads narrow, almost bristle-like, 

 double pappus inner of hairs, very few, white, equal to 

 the achenes, outer consists of short-jagged teeth, outer 

 corollas 2-3 toothed, inner 5-toothed ; achenes hairy, 

 minute. 



Pulicaria 

 glaucescens. 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 300. 

 The Plains, west of 

 the Jhelumi. 

 The Salt Eange. 

 Waziristan. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Boissier). 



medium size, woody, saline, succulent, leaves 1-21 

 in., linear, fleshy, margins flat or rolled in, tips recurved, 

 flowers in heads | in. diam., shortly stalked, shining 

 from the pale yellow pappus, bracts of the heads lanceo- 

 late, smooth, «hort-pointed, stiff, pappus long, achenes 

 short, obloDg, silky ; for other characters see the last 

 species. 



Carpesium 

 trachelifolium. 



see Herl)S, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 

 Toothed. II 



