Plants of the Pimjah. 



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Herbs, Erect with Alternate Exstiphlate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Sonchus arvensis, 

 Corn sow thistle, 



Sahadevi han. 



COMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 414. 

 The Plains to 

 8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all ligulate. 



very like the last species, but flowers in the autumn, 

 rootstock creeping, leaves with the lobes pointing back- 

 wards, heads and stalks glandular hairy. This plant is 

 considered mildly sedative, the milky juice when dry looks 

 like opium. 



Sonchus maritimus. 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 414. 



N.-W. F. Province, 



Peshawar 



(Stewart). 



Baluchistan 



(Stocks). 



very like the last species, but leaves linear-oblong, 

 entire or toothed with the gaps rounded, heads few, 

 smooth, achenes with thick end margins, faces with a thick 

 middle rib and two slender lateral ones. 



Launsea 

 aspleniifolia, 



Composite. 

 F.B.I, iii. 415. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, biennial or perennial, juice yellow, 

 smooth, flowering stems many from the root ; leaves 3-6 in., 

 narrowly ovate with broad tip, lobed or pinnately divided, 

 lobes minutely toothed, stem-leaves few ; flowers yellow, 

 in smooth terminal heads, \ in. diam., on bracteate stalks, 

 forming branching racemes, bracts of heads green, outer 

 small, inner linear, margins thin, floor of head flat, naked, 

 anther-bases forked, style arms slender, pappus \ in., 

 copious, hairs white, not feathery, united into a ring ; 

 achenes -^ in., narrow, angled, ribs 4-5, very stout, not 

 winged. 



Launsea 

 chondrilloides, 



Composite. 

 F. B.I.iii. 415. 

 The Plains west of 

 the Eavi, Multan. 

 Eawalpindi. 



like the last species, but leaves more divided, stem- 

 leaves sessile, forked at the base, heads rather larger. 



Launaea secunda, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Lobed. 



