Plants of the Punjab. 



338 



Herbs, Erect with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, inner tubular, outer ligulate. 



Myriactis Wallichii, 



COMPOSITJE. 



F. B. I. iii. 247. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Rhynchospermiim 

 verticillatum, 



very like the last species, but more slender, less hairy, 

 heads smaller on slender stalks. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Aster Amellus, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Aster Pseudameilus, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Aster molliusculus, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Aster Thomsoni, 



Composite.. 

 F. B. I. iii. 252. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Aster asperulus, 



COMPOSITE':. 

 F.B.I, iii. 252. 

 Himalaya, 

 east of the Eavi, 

 4-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



medium size to large, annual, hairy, branches bending 

 at the joints ; leaves 2-4 by 1-2^ in., broadly ovate, long- 

 pointed, nearly sessile, base narrowed, half stem-clasping, 

 coarsely sharply toothed ; flowers, inner yellow, outer 

 lilac or purple, in long-stalked solitary heads, 11-21 in. diam., 

 bracts of heads green, linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, 

 pappus hairs single, much shorter than the corollas and 

 achenes, reddish, corollas, inner 5-toothed, outer 20-30, 

 |--| in. long, entire or minutely toothed, anther-bases 

 blunt, entire, style-arms flattened ; achenes |-^ in., flat- 

 tened, hairy. 



very like the last species, but the stem is nearly smooth, 

 leaf stalks winged, pappus as along as the corollas. 



