Plants of the Punjab. 



327 



Herbs, Ekect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 

 Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Biumea lacera, 



Kalxwiida, jangli 

 muli. 



Composite. 

 E. B. I. iii. 263. 

 The Plains to 

 2,000 ft. 



very like the last species, but smelling of turpentine, 

 flowers yellow, achenes smooth, not hairy. The root is 

 used as a febrifuge and an astringent in Indian medi- 

 cine. 



Biumea hieracifolia, 



COMPOSIT.E. 



F. B. L iii. 263. 

 The Plains to 

 2,000 ft. 



like the last species, but often unbranched or mth a 

 stout stem, heads |-f in. diam., in tuft-like or spike-like 

 long brandling racemes. 



Laggera flava, 



CoMPOSITtE. 



P. B. I. iii. 270. 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. 



small to medium size, annual, slender or shghtly 

 velvety, stem cylindrical, branched at the top or not, 

 grooved ; leaves 1-3 in. long, lower stalked, upper ovate- 

 lanceolate or with a broad tip, half stem-clasping, not 

 prolonged down the stem, sharply toothed ; flowers minute, 

 bright yellow, all tubular, on few heads, | in. diam., on 

 slender branches of loose clusters, bracts of heads, outer 

 ovate, short-pointed, inner lanceolate, long-pointed, all 

 smooth or with scattered bristles on the margins, corollas, 

 inner tubular, 5-toothed, outer thread-like, minutely 

 toothed, anther-bases 2-lobed or forked, style-arms as 

 in Biumea above, pappus white ; achenes very minute, 

 smooth. 



Laggera alata, 



COMPOSIT.95. 



F. B. I. iii. 27L 



Himalayi^, 



1-6, 000 'ft. 



Simla. 



Sutlej and Giri 



Valleys (Collett). 



medium size to large, perennial, much branched, 

 velvety or felted, sometimes glandular, stem with broad 

 entire wings ; leaves 1-4 in. long, narrowly oblong, short- 

 pointed, rough above, woolly beneath, sessile, prolonged 

 down the stem ; flowers minute, purplish, in main heads 

 I in. diam., in axillary racemes, on mnged branches often 

 forming a large terminal leafy cluster, drooping in fruit, 

 ])racts of the heads many, narrow, stiff, short-pointed, 

 outer shorter, green, often recurved, inner as long as the 

 flowers, pappus white, corollas as in the last species ; 

 achenes small, hairy. 



