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Flants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 

 Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Laggera pterodonta, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. Liii. 271. 

 Himalaya, 

 east of Sutlej, 

 4,000 ft. 



like the last species, but more slender, smooth wings 

 of stem toothed or lobed, leaves, often lobed, heads § in. 

 diam., on slender stalks at the end of the branches, bracts 

 smooth, stiff. 



Laggera aurita, 



Composite. 

 F.B. Liii. 271. 

 The Plains. 



like the last species, but hairy, sticky, glandular, 

 stem not winged, leaves very little prolonged down the 

 stem, often lobed, heads J-| in. diam., in small, lateral or 

 terminal clusters, flowers pink, bracts soft, slender, silky. 

 This plant smells of turpentine. 



Sphseranthus 

 indicus, 



Mimdi, guruk.mundi. 



Composite. 



F. B. L iii. 276. 



The Plains to 



5;000ft.,indryrice 



fields. 



medium size, annual, glandular, softly hairy, aromatic, 

 branches mth toothed wings ; leaves 1-2 in. long, oblong- 

 ovate with a broad tip, narrowed to the toothed base, 

 prolonged down the branches, blunt or short-pointed, 

 toothed, teeth often bristle-pointed, glandular-hairy on 

 both surfaces ; flowers pink or purple in globose, terminal, 

 solitary, compound, bracteate heads |-in. diam., consisting 

 of very small crowded heads, each with 12 flowers, bracts 

 of small heads Hnear, hairy at the tip, as long as the flowers, 

 pappus none, outer corollas 10-12, 4-5-toothed, inner 

 2-3, slender, straight, 2-3-toothed, style-arms thread-Hke 

 or united; achenes oblong, stalked, smooth. This plant 

 is used to make a bitter tonic and a vermifuge in Indian 

 medicine. 



Phagnalon niveum, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Csesulia axillaris, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Pulicaria crispa, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed, flowers in heads, inner tubular, outer ligulate. 



