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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



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



Inula acuminata, see Herbs, Erect, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 



Simple. 



Vicoa auriculata. 



Vicoa vestita, 



Composit.^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 297. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). 

 Dharampur. 

 Kangra Valley. 

 Lahore. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



small to medium size, annual, softly hairy or woolly ; 

 leaves 1-2 in., linear-oblong or oblong, base broadly bluntly 

 forked, half stem-clasping ; flowers bright yellow, in heads 

 |-1 in. diam., long-stalked, bracts of heads rough with 

 projecting processes, tips thread-like, recurved, corollas, 

 inner 5-toothed, outer with long narrow-spreading 2-3- 

 toothed ligules, pappus hairs few, anther-bases forked, 

 tails slender, style-arms flattened, broader upwards ; 

 achenes small, hardly ribbed, tip rounded. 



Pulicaria vulgaris, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Pulicaria 

 dysenteriea, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Pulicaria 

 angustifolia, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Pulicaria crispa, 



Burhna, hui, gidi. 

 Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 299. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, perennial, shrubby below, very leafy, 

 branches and leaves beneath densely cottony ; leaves |-1|- 

 in., linear-oblong, margins turned in and toothed, sessile, 

 lower half stem-clasping ; flowers yellow, in heads |-i in., 

 solitary, bracts of heads slender, bristle-like, pappus in 

 2 rows, outer of short jagged teeth, inner of white bearded 

 hairs, 3 times as long as the achenes, corollas, inner tubular, 

 5-toothed, outer minute or none, anther-bases forked, tails 

 hair-like, style-arms linear, blunt ; achenes smoothish. 



Guizotia abyssinica. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



