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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstjpulate Simple Leaves, 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals united. 



Flowers minute in heads, all tubular. 



Carpesium 

 abrotanoides, 



Hukmandaz, 

 wotiangil 



COMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 301. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-6,000 "ft. 

 Kashmir, Valleys 

 below Simla 

 (Collett). 



Artemisia 

 Dracunculus, 



Arctium Lappa, 

 Burdock, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 359. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-9,000" ft. 



Saussurea candicans, 

 Saussurea albescens. 



large, velvety or smooth, branches leafy, long, 

 slender ; leaves 3-5 by |-1 in., lanceolate, long-pointed, 

 nearly sessile ; flowers yellow, in many heads, I in. diam., 

 along the branches or in short axillary racemes, strongly 

 scented, bracts of the heads manj^, inner broad, blunt, 

 outer green, leafy, margins white, corollas inner 5-toothed, 

 outer 3-toothed, pappus hairs none, anther-bases forked ; 

 achenes smooth, long, ribbed, beaked. The flowers are 

 used in Kashmir to dye silk. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



large, rough ; leaves 3-12 in. across, broadly ovate- 

 heart-shaped, margin wavy or wavy-toothed, smooth 

 or grey or wliite-cotton}'- beneath ; flowers purple in cot- 

 tony or smooth terminal globose clustered heads, |-1|^ in. 

 diam., bracts of the heads stiff, angled, spreading, hooked j 

 receptacle flat, very bristly, corollas 6-toothed, anther- 

 bases forked, style-arms white, united, pappus hairs many, 

 short, minutely barbed ; achenes large, smooth, finely 

 ribbed, angled. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipidate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Saussurea Jacea, 



COMPOSIT/E. 



F. B. I. iii. 375. 

 Kashmir, 

 9-15,000 ft. 

 (Falconer). 



large, stiff, stem cylindrical, not grooved, branches 

 very leafy ; leaves 3-4 by 1|-2| in., ovate or oblong, blunt 

 or short-pointed, sessile, half stem-clasping, rough on 

 both surfaces or pinnately divided, terminal lobe largest ; 

 flowers I in., purplish, in heads |-| in. diam. solitary, ter- 

 minal on straight rather slender stalks or in flat-topped 

 clusters, bracts of the heads few, stiff, broad, margins 

 purple, outer bracts ovate, blunt or short-pointed 

 inner lanceolate, receptacle flat with long flattened bristles, 

 curved, stiff, corollas 5-toothed, pappus hairs | in., brown, 

 anthers forked ; achenes J in., smooth, shining, ribs slen- 

 der, tops abruptly cut off. 



