Plants of the Punjab. 



367 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Echinops cornigerus, very like the last species, but stem undivided below, 



Composite. very leafy, leaves much larger, balls much larger, often 



F. B. I. iii. 358. without spines, flowers much larger. 



Himalaya, 

 6-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 -Kashmir. 



Echinops niveus, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 359. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-6,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



very like the last species, but the leaves are much 

 more divided, often curved back. 



Cousinia minuta, 



Lakhtei, handiari. 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 359. 

 The Plains, west of 

 the Jhelum. 

 Salt Eange. 

 Sakesar. 

 Eawalpindi. 



small, annual, branches spreading, thistle-like ; leaves 

 sessile, oblong or lanceolate, pinnately divided, somewhat 

 spinecent, grey, cobwebby on both surfaces ; flowers yellow, 

 in small numerous heads, round, terminal or in the forks of 

 the branches, floor of heads with smooth bristles, bracts 

 round heads, 15-20, triangular-lanceolate, stout, spread- 

 ing, turned back, tips spinous, pappus hairs in one series, 

 rough, soon falhng off, corollas tubular, slender, unequally 

 5-fid, anther-bases forked ; aclienes smooth, ovoid with a 

 broad top, flattened, 5-7-angled, abruptly ended with 

 minutely toothed ring. This plant when young is eaten 

 as a vegetable in the Salt Eange. 



Cousinia Thomsoni, 



CoMPOSITyE. 



F. B. I. iii. 360. 

 Himalaya, 

 10-14,000 ft. 

 Lahul. 



large, biennial, stout, cottony, stem not winged, 

 branched, leaves radical, 5-10 by f-lj in,, stalked, linear, 

 deeply pinnately divided, segments horizontal, triangular, 

 with a stiff long spine, cobwebby above, white felted be- 

 neath, stem leaves ovate-lanceolate, sessile or forked at 

 the base, flowers |-| in. long, in terminal stalked heads, 

 l|-2 in. diam., bracts of heads many, woolly, |-1| in. long, 

 floor of heads with rough hairs, f in. ; for other characters 

 see the last species. 



