Plants of the Punjab. 



483 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Tragopogon 

 porrifolium, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I.iii. 418. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Scorzonera 

 Stewartii, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 419. 

 The Plains, west of 

 the Jhelum, Harru, 

 Peshawar. 



Epilasia ammophila, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 419. 

 The Plains, west of 

 the Jhelum. 

 Sat Eange. 

 Rawalpindi. 

 Baluchistan. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all ligulate. 



like the last species, but flowers purple, flower stalk 

 much thickened above. 



Wahlenbergia 

 gracilis, 



Sphenoclea 

 zeylanica, 



Phyteuma 

 Thomson!, 



Campanulace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 438. 

 Himalaya, west of 

 the Chenab, 

 6-8,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



i-mall, annual, stemless ; leaves 3-8 by j'^-J in., grass- 

 like, linear or slightly dilated beyond the middle, woolly 

 or almost smooth below ; flowers j^ellow, in solitary, felted 

 or almost smooth heads ^-1 in. long, on naked stalks, usually 

 shorter than the leaves, bracts of receptacle shorter fhan 

 the flowers, outer ovate short-pointed, inner oblong- 

 lanceolate ; achenes ^ in. long, linear-oblong with 3 broad 

 or 3 narrower white wings, ribbed, ribs with an irregular 

 row of spinules, pappus reddish, as long as the achenes. 



small, annual, smooth, stemless or with stout leafy 

 stem 6 in. high ; leaves 1-4 by ^-| in., very narrowly linear 

 or dilated about the middle, tip blunt, hard ; flowers bluish, 

 in solitary bell-shaped heads, ^-|- in., on stout naked hollow 

 stalks, one or more, 2-G in. long, bracts of receptacle few, 

 inner ovate-lanceolate, blunt, outer leafy, spreading, often 

 projecting far above the heads ; achenes i in. long, short, 

 10-20-ribbed, ribs minutely toothed, pappus dark brown, 

 silky, hairs mostly feathery. 



Flowers not in heads. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 

 Toothed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



small to large, perennial, nearly smooth, stems 6-48 

 in. ; leaves, lower nearly circular stalked, stem leaves 3 

 by 1| in., stalked, ovate-lanceolate, shghtly round- 

 toothed ; flowers blue, small, many in loose branching 

 racemes, branches 6-12 in., naked, minor flower stalks 

 |-| in., calyx teeth, I in., 5, awl-shaped, corolla wheel- 

 .shaped, lobed nearly ~to the base, lobes 5, 1-}^ by ,'^-|- in., 

 hnear-oblong, stanions 5, very short, velvety, stigma 2- 

 lobed ; capsule 2-celled, seeds minute, oblong with rounded 

 ends. 



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