Plana of the Punjab. 



479 



Herbs, U^fBRANCHED with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



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



margins broad, thin, receptade flat, naked, corollas, inner 

 tubular, boll-shaped, 6-fid, outer ligulate, ligules conspicu- 

 ous, long, narrow, 8-toothed, style-arms blunt, tips minute- 

 ly hairy, pappus white copious, soft ; achenes nearly cylin- 

 drio, 5-10-ribbed 



Senecio alatus. 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii 853 

 Himalaj-a, 

 6-9,000 ft 



Narkanda (Collett). 

 The Chor. 



Senecio Kunthianus, 



Cenfaurea Cyanus, 



medium size to large, smooth, velvety or cottony, stem 

 short or long, stout, 1-4 ft., leaves 5-12 by 4-6 in., ovate- 

 heart-shaped, or ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, toothed, 

 thin, stalk long with broad toothed wings, stem beyond 

 the leaves long, simple or branched ; flowers yellow in 

 4-6-flowered slender, cylindric, shortly stalked heads |-^ 

 in. diam., in short racemes, forming large, ovate, terminal 

 branched clusters, bracts of receptacles 4-7, linear, blunt, 

 velvety, corollas, inner tubular, 5-fid, outer 2 ligulate, 

 ligules broad, conspicuous, minutely 8-toothed ; achenes 

 -J^ in. long, slender, smooth, or slightly velvety, ribbed, 

 pappus white, much shorter than the tubular corollas. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobod. 



Centaurea depressa, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all ligulate. 



Koelpinia linearis, 



COMPOSITJE. 



F. B. I. iii. 392. 

 The Plains, west of 

 the Jhehim, to 

 14,000 ft. 



Rawalpindi (Douie) 

 Kashmir. 



small, annual, smooth, or slightly velvety, root slender, 

 stem 6-12 in., leafy, sometimes branched ; leaves 2-6 by 

 ^t-J in., chiefly radical, linear, gradually narrowed at both 

 ends, quite entire ; flowers yellow, all ligulate in small 

 stalked heads l-l in. diam., bracts of receptacle 6-7, narrow, 

 nearly equal, thin, base keeled, outer very few, small, 

 receptacle naked, corollas all ligulate, ligules 6-tooth- 

 ed, anther-bases forked ; achenes |-f in. longer than 

 the bracts, narrowly hnear, incurved like birds' claws, 

 ribbed, dorsal ribs with hooked spines, terminal spinei 

 star-shaped. 



