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Plants oj the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Conyza japonica, 



Composite. 

 E. B. I. iii. 258. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



small, annual, silky or woolly, stem often unbranched ; 

 leaves 1-3 in. (radical often longer), ovate A^ith a broad 

 tip prolonged into the short stalk, or lanceolate, coarsely 

 sharp-toothed or round-toothed, upper leaves half stem- 

 clasping, oblong, or ovate-oblong, often entire ; flowers all 

 tubular, yellow, in globose heads \ in. diam., arranged 

 in terminal flat-topped clusters, bracts of heads narrowly 

 lanceolate, short-pointed with transparent edges, pappus 

 ^ in., 2 reddish, corollas 5-toothed, anther-bases blunt, 

 entire, style-arms flattened ; achenes ^^ in., nearly smooth, 

 margined. 



Conyza viscidula, 



Composite. 

 E. B. I. iii. 258. 

 Himalaya, 

 1-7,000 ft. 

 Mashobra (Collett). 



medium size to large, sticky with glands, much 

 branched above, leaves 2-4 in., lanceolate, narrowed at 

 both ends, nearly sessile, sticky on both sides, sharply 

 toothed, sometimes entire, heads in loose clusters, bracts 

 of heads long-pointed, pappus \-\ in. ; for other characters 

 see the last species. 



Blumea amplectens, small, annual, bushy, softly hairy; leaves \-\^ in. 



Composite. long, oblong or ovate with a broad tip, blunt or short- 



E. B. I. iii. 260. pointed, half stem-clasping ; flowers minute, yellow, in 



The Plains. solitary long-stalked heads, \-\ in. diam., bracts of heads 



EawalpincU (Douie). very slender, inner hair pointed, base of head (receptacle) 

 Eohtak. flat, naked, calyx hair (pappus) scanty, reddish, corollas 



Gurgaon, tubular, filiform, 2-3-toothed, inner slender, 5-toothed, 



anther- bases forked, tails small, slender, style-arms short ; 



achenes oblong. A common weed. 



blumea Wightiana, 



Composite. 

 F.B.I, iii. 261. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Yallej'^s below 

 Simla (Collett). 



small to medium size, silky or woolly, often sticky 

 with glandular hairs, leaves l|-2 by |-1 in., lower ovate, 

 stalked or nearly sessile, upper smaller, linear or lanceo- 

 late, sessile, flowers minute, purple or a few yellow, 

 in numerous heads, \ in. diam., forming stalked ter- 

 minal or axillary clusters, bracts of heads, outer few, short, 

 inner many, narrow, long-pointed, slightly longer than 

 the flowers, achenes minute, angled, slightly hairy ; for 

 other characters see the last species. 



