Plants oj the Punjab, 



385 



Hekbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



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



Erigeron 

 bellidioides, 



Composit.e. 

 F. B. I. iii. 256. 

 Himalaya, 

 5.10,005 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Erigeron 

 multiradiatus, 



Conyza japonica, 



Conyza stricta, 



Composit.e. 



F. B. I. iii. 25R. 



Himalaya, 



l-6.000lt. 



Simla (CoUett). 



Hazara. 



Kashmir. 



Inula racemosa, 



COM^OSIT^. 



F. B. I. iii. 292. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 

 Spiti. 



Inula Royleana, 



Composite-. 

 F. B. I. iii. 292. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-11,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



like the last species, but perennial, slender, sparingly 

 branched, smooth, radical leayes lanceolate, stem leayes 

 sessile but not half stem-clasping, heads ^ in. diam., long- 

 stalked, few, ligules 3 times as long as the red pappus 

 hairs ; achenes slightly silky. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



medium size, grey yelyety or rough, leafy, much branch- 

 ed ; leayes |-2 in., narrowly hnear to oyate Anth a broad 

 tip prolonged into a short stalk, often entire or rarely pin- 

 nately lobed ; flov.ers in heads | in. diam., long-stalked, 

 in flat-topped clusters, bracts of heads narrowly lanceolate, 

 pappus Jg. in., reddish, corollas yellow, outer minutely 

 Hgulate, inner 5-toothed, anther-bases blunt, entire, style- 

 arms flattened ; achenes -^^J in., flattened. 



medium size to large, rough, stem stout, grooved ; 

 leaves radical, 8-18 by 5-8 in., oblong-lanceolate, narrowed 

 into a stalk as long as the blade, upper oblong, half 

 stem-clasping, felted beneath, round-toothed ; flowers all 

 yellow, in many large heads, 1^-2 in. diam., in racemes, 

 bracts of heads, inner linear, short-pointed, outer broad, 

 green, with triangular turned-back points, outermost usually 

 leafj^ pappus hairs |in., reddish, corollas, inner long, 5-tooth- 

 ed, outer with ligules ^ in., slender, 3-toothed, anther-bases 

 forked, tails simple or branched, style-arms linear, broader 

 above, blunt : achenes | in., smooth, slender. This plant is 

 closely allied to Inula Helenium Linn. Elecampane, once 

 much used in Europe. 



like the last species, but smaller, stem velvety or hairy 

 and glandular, leaves 6-10 by 4-6 in., minutely toothed, 

 radical ovate or oblong with a long winged stalk, stem leaves 

 . lobed, base forked, heads 3-4 in. diam., solitary, on a stout 

 erect woolly stalk, inner bracts of head slender, long- 

 pointed, pappus hairs paler. 



