Plants of the Punjab. 



475 



HeBBB, UNBRiLNCHED WITH ALTERNATE ExSTIPULATE SiMPLE LeAVHS. 



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Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all (tubular. 



Jurinea eeratoearpa, 



Composite. 

 F. B. L iii. 878. 

 Kashmir, 

 9-16,000 ft. 



small to large, perennial, slightly rough, stemless 

 or stem up to 2 ft., with stout branches ; leaves 2-5 in., 

 linear-oblong or lanceolate, entire or pinnately divided . 

 green on both sides, or white beneath, radical and lower 

 stem leaves often have the lobes pointing back, stalked, 

 upper stem leaves sessile, base forked ; flowers | in., purple 

 in sessile or stoutly stalked heads, 1-1| in. diam., with 

 linear leaves as bracts, receptacle bracts lanceolate, long- 

 pointed, in many rows, overlapping each other, inner- 

 most slender, erect, or recurved, outer shorter, linear green, 

 receptacle (floor of head) flat, densely bristly, bristles 

 longer than the achenes, anther-bases forked, anther tails 

 long, divided, style-arms short ; pappus hairs in several 

 rows, outer bristly rough, inner ^ in., very slender, white ; 

 achenes i in., rough, brown, 4-5-angled, angles ending in 

 erect spines. 



Serratula pallida, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 879. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-8 000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



large, perennial, smooth or slightly rough, sometimes 

 branched from below, branches ending in long leafless one- 

 headed stalks ; leaves chiefly radical, stalked, broadly 

 ovate or oblong, 8-12 by 2-6 in., toothed, all of this charactei 

 in the autumn, or 1-6 in. long, deeply pinnately lobed, stem 

 leaves few or none ; flowers | in. long, purple, violet or 

 whitish, in discoid heads 1-1 J in. diam,, on long stalks, 

 receptacle bracts smooth, in several rows, inner narrow, 

 long ^\-ith blunt tips, outer ovate, short-pointed, recept- 

 acle bristly, bristles longer than the achenes, anther- 

 bases forked, tails short, undivided, styles hairy, pappus 

 hairs ^ in., brown, stiff ; achenes | in., oblong-ovoid, broad, 

 flattened, pale, quite, smooth. 



Ainsliaea pteropoda, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 388. 



Himala3'a, 



east of the Sutlej, 



5-6,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Kasauli. 



medium size, perennial, felted, cottony or hairy, the 

 flowering leafless stems appear in March and April, 1-2 ft. 

 high, bearing many heads in spikes, after fruiting the 

 stems disappear, in Juno the loaves appear 2-5 by l|-8 

 in., ovate or heart-shaped,, short- or long-pointed, narrow- 

 ed into a broadly winged stalk, finely toothed, during July 

 to September a new stem bearing leaves, many closed heads 

 and buds appear, at the end of October the heads open and 

 shod many seeds, but the corollas are concealed in the 

 pappus, the leaves drop off in the winter and the buds 

 produce perfect flowers in the spring ; heads are discoid. 



