Plants of the Punjab. 



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Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Serratula pallida, see Herbs, Erect, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 



Lobed. 



Tricholepis elongata, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



Tricholepis tibetica, 



see Shi'ubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Volutarella 

 divaricata, 



Badaward. 

 Composite. 

 F. B. Liii. 383. 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. 



Sargodha, Shahpur 

 District. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



medium size, annual, straggling, stiff, branches long, 

 angled ; leaves 1-2 by ^-f in., rarely 6 by 3 in., oblong, 

 pinnately divided, lobes rounded with an abrupt point, 

 crisped or waved ; flowers | in., pale purple in hard spiny 

 heads, |-1 by |-| in., bracts of heads with a long spread- 

 ing or recurved spine, bristles of floor of head short, pappus 

 hairs roughish silvery brown, corollas | in. long, lobes 5, 

 linear, anther-bases forked ; achenes in., 4-5-angled, 

 dotted, top broad. A troublesome weed. 



Zoegia purpurea. 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 384. 

 Hills between 

 Kashmir and 

 Waziristan 

 (Stewart). 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



small, aimual, slender, smooth ; leaves radical pin- 

 nately divided, stem leaves undivided ; flowers purple, 

 in long-stalked heads, floor of head densely bristly, bract 

 of heads many, thin, bristly, tips bright purple, pappus 

 of outer chaffy scales, middle long smooth bristles, inner 

 short bristles, corollas 5-lobed, slender, anther-bases forked ; 

 achenes ovoid, shining, obscurely ribbed, with concentric 

 ridges below the top. 



Centaurea Cyanus, 

 Corn Flower or 

 Blue bottle, 



Composite. 

 F.B.I, iii. 384. 

 The Plains, west of 

 the Jhelum. 

 Baluchistan. 

 (Hughes-Buller). 



medium size, annual or biennial, branched or not, 

 slender, cottony ; leaves narrow, radical pinnately lobed 

 with the terminal lobe largest or simple, stem-leaves 

 linear; flowers blue, in solitary or clustered heads, bracts 

 of the heads oblong, cottony, blunt, broad tip with tooth- 

 ed edges, floor of head densely bristly, outer corollas 

 larger than inner, anther-bases forked, achenes oblong, 

 somewhat 4-angled, grey, silky. 



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