Plants of the Punjab. 



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Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, inner tubular, outer ligulate. 



Carthamus lanatus, 



Composite. 

 F. B. Liii.386. 

 Kashmir, 

 5-6.000 ft. 



small to medium size, annual, stiff, cobwebby, cot- 

 tony or nearl}^ smooth ; leaves ^-1| in., hairy, hard, green, 

 radical pinnately lobed, end lobe largest, stem leaves 

 ovate, half stem-clasping with a forked toothed base strong- 

 ly 3-nerved, spinescent ; flowers pale yellow in heads l-l-g- 

 in. diam., outer br cts of heads 1-2 in., spreading, project- 

 ing beyond the flowers, lanceolate, leafy, prickly on the 

 sides, lower hnear brown, thin, tip spinescent, bristles of 

 the floor of the heads very long, anther- bases forked, tails 

 fringed, pappus longer than the achenes of swordshaped 

 scales, silvery or bronze-coloured ; achenes | in., thick, 

 4-angled, pitted above, pale yellowish or grey. 



Brachyactis 

 umbrosa, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Conyza stricta, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. ■ 



Inula Royleana, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Vicoa auriculata, 



Vicoa vestita, 



Glossocardia 

 linearifolla, 



Sen. 



(JOMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 308. 

 The Plains, east of 

 the Sutlej, Delhi. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



small, annual, smells like fennel, much branched from 

 the base, often prostrate ; leaves |-2 in., pinnately divided, 

 stalk long, slender, blade broadly ovate, segments thread- 

 like ; flowers yellow, in shortly stalked heads ^ in. long, 

 bracts of heads few, inner oblong with thin broad margins, 

 outer one to three, slender, floor of heads flat, scales few, 

 flat, inner corollas 4-toothed, outer ligulate, 'ligule 2- 

 tootlied, anther bases blunt, entire, pappus of 2 stiff 

 bristles ; achenes | in. long, narrowly oblong, flattened, 

 faces bearded. 



Achillea millefolium, see Herbs, Unbrauched, Alternate", Exstipulate, Lobed. 



