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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Blumea 

 membranacea, 



Composite, 

 F. B. I. iii. 265. 

 The Plains. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



very like the last species, but more slender, more 

 branched, flower stalks slender, glandular, floor of head 

 very narrow, smooth, bracts slender with scattered bristles 

 on the margins. 



Laggera pterodonta, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 



Toothed. 



Laggera aurita, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Carpesium 

 trachelifolium, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Xanthium 

 strumarium. 

 Bur weed, 



Chota dhatura, 



han-okra, wangan 



tsuru^ 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 303. 



The Plain^ to 



5,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



medium size to large, annual, rough, coarse ; leaves 

 long-stalked, heart-shaped, lobed, toothed, triangular, 2 

 by 1 in., or circular, 4 in. diam., ; flowers male and females 

 in separate heads, combined in axillary or terminal clus- 

 ters on the same plant, male heads highest, lound, \ in. 

 diam., bracts few, short, narrow, in one series, floor of head 

 cjdindric, flowers many, each in a transparent scale, 

 pappus none, corolla white or green, 5-toothed, female 

 heads ovoid, | in. long, outer bracts few, short, inner 

 many, in one series, narrow, united, covered with hooked 

 bristles and crowned with 2-hooked beaks, flowers 2, 

 pappus and corolla none, style branches long, protruding 

 between the beaks, achenes ovoid, thick, enclosed in the 

 hardened bracts. This weed is common round villages, it 

 is a good diuretic, useful in irritability of the bladder, in 

 gleet and leucorrhcea. An oil is expressed from the seeds. 



Matricaria 

 chamomilla, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, Inner, 

 flowers tubular, Outer ligulate. 



Cotula anthemoides, 



Bahuna. 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F.B.I, iii. 316. 

 The Plains. 



leaves ^-|- 



small, annual, hairy or almost smooth, often prostrate ; 

 in., much divided, segments lobed, lobes trian- 

 gular-lanceolate, stalks half stem-clasping ; flowers minute, 

 yellow, in solitary terminal heads |-^ in. diam., on thread, 

 like naked stalks, floor of heads nearly flat, tubercled, bracts 

 of heads nearly in 2 series, margins transparent, inner 



