Plants of the Punjab. 



865 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Artemisia vulgaris, 

 Mugwort, Flea bane, 



Chambra, ajsantin, 



buimadaran. 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 325. 



Himalaya, 



5-12,000 ft. 



medium size to large, perennial, aromatic, shrub-like, 

 grey velvety or felted, stems leafy, much branched, leaves 

 lower 2-4 in. long, stalked, ovate, much divided, grey felted 

 beneath, stipule-like lobes at the base, stem leaves often 

 sessile, linear-lanceolate, entire or 3-fid, heads 



i.i 



8 6 



in. 



ovoid or rounded, clustered or seriate, in nearly one-sided 

 branched racemes, brownish, yellow, bracts round, heads 

 wooly or nearly smooth, outer green, inner thin ; for other 

 characters see the last species. 



Artemisia 

 Roxburghiana, 



C0MP0SIT.E. 

 F. B. I. iii. 326. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



very like the last species, but rootstock creeping, 

 not shrubby, leaves smaller, more finely cut, flowers nearly 

 always purple. • 



Artemisia vestita, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 326. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir, 

 Salt Eange. 



Artemisia laciniata, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 326. 

 Kashmir, 

 9,000 ft. 

 (Clarke). 



very like the last species, but more shrubby, leaves 

 still more finely divided, upper surface green, white-felted 

 beneath. 



very like the last specie?, but leaves smaller, both 

 surfaces alike, heads larger, flowers more numerous. 



Artemisia 

 Moorcroftiana, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 327. 

 Kashmir, 

 9-13,000 ft. 

 Spiti. 



very like Artemisia Eoxburghiana above, but the heads 

 form long interrupted spikes or racemes with spaces of 

 |-f ill. between the sohta'ry heads or clusters of 2-3 heads. 



