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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Artemisia 



Absinthium, 



Wormwood, 



Vilaijati ajsantin. 



CoMPOSITiB. 



F. B. I. iii. 328. 

 Kashmir, 

 5-7,000 ft. 

 (Thomson). 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



medium size to large, perennial, grey velvety, very 

 aromatic, stems angular, ribbed; leaves 1-2 in., ovate or 

 ovate with broad tips, two or three times divided into 

 spreading linear or lanceolate blunt segments, grey on 

 both surfaces, radical and lower stem leaves narrowed into 

 winged stalks ; heads |-^ in. diam., stalked, half round, in 

 drooping terminal one-sided racemes, bracts round, heads 

 oblong, grey, narrow thin margins, inner circular broad thin 

 margins, floor of heads covered with long strtiight hairs ; 

 flowers yellow, anthers long-pointed, achenes ^-^ in. long ; 

 for other characters see the last species. This plant is used 

 as a stomachic tonic and vermifuge. The oil is a narotic 

 poison, a French liqueur is prepared from it. 



Artemisia 

 Sieversiana, 



Ajsantin, dauna. 



COMPOSITJE. 



F. B. I. iii. 329. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 

 Lahul. 



very Hke the last species, but annual, heads much 

 larger, widely separated on long loose racemes, anthers 

 bristle-pointed, its properties are very similar to those of 

 the last species. 



Gynura angulosa, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Toothed. 



Emilia sonchifolia. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Sencio Levingii, 



Echinops echinatus, 



Composit.t;. 

 F. B. I. iii. 358. 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. 

 Rawalpindi. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Hughes- Buller). 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 

 Toothed. 



medium size, annual, thistle-hke, stiff, spreading, 

 much branched, white cottony ; leaves 3-5 in., oblong, 

 sessile, pinnately divided, lobes triangular or oblong, 

 spinous, spines often 1| in., heads in white balls 1-1 1 in. 

 diam., with many stout spines, each head contains one 

 flower, outer bracts 6-8, lanceolate, smooth, inner | in. 

 long, united, tips bristly, hardening round the silky achene, 

 pappus of short bristles, corolla tubular, slender, deeply 

 cut into 5 segments, anther-bases forked, style-arms thick. 



