Plants of the Punjab. 



505 



Herbs, Unbranohed, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Saxifraga 

 odontophylla, 



Saxifragace^, 

 F. B. I. ii. 390, 

 Himalaya, 

 10,000 ft. 

 Kulu, Lahul. 



Saxifraga sibirica, 



Saxifragace^. 

 F, B. I. ii. 390. 

 Himalaj'-a, 

 9-14,000 ft. 

 Hazara, Kashmir^ 



Adoxa 



Moschateilina, 

 The Moschatel, 



Caprifoliace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 2. 

 Kashmir (Falconer). 

 Pir Panjal 

 (C. B. Clarke). 



small, perennial, hairy, stem 6-10 in., leafy ; leaves 

 radical kidney-shaped, stalked, with 7-12 shallow rounded 

 lobes, stem leaves triangular, short-pointed ; flowers 3-6, 

 white, clustered on a main stalk, bracts 2, unequal, at the 

 base of the main flower stalk, calyx lobes 5, joined to the 

 base of the ovary, overlapping, calyx tube short, bell- 

 shaped, calyx lobes ovate-linear approaching each other, 

 petals 5, longer than the calyx lobes, stamens 10, carpels 

 2, united below, narrowed upwards into a style, stigma in- 

 ternal, almost round, ripe carpels dry, opening at the top, 

 seeds small, oblong with rounded ends. 



very like the last species, but the flowers and the 

 carpels are smaller, stem leaves usually entire. 



small, perennial, rootstock short, creepmg, stem 

 B-6 in., simple, terminating in a solitary flower stalk ; leaves 

 radical |-2 in. diam., divided into 3 portions, each portion 

 divided again into segments, stem leaf usually solitary, 

 divided into three ; flowers small, green, inodorous, in a 

 stalked head ^ in. diam., calyx lobes 5, corolla lobes 5 

 in the central flower of the head with 4 or more lateral 

 flowers with 6 cah^x lobes and 6 corolla lobes, calyx tube 

 united to the ovary, stamens 8-12, in pairs on the corolla, 

 alternating with the lobe-, styles 3-5 ; drupe ^ in. diam., 

 nearly round, pyrenes 4-5, flattened, seeds ovate, with a 

 broad top, flattened. The plant in England has a musky 

 scent. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Tanacetum 

 senecionis, 



Purkar. 

 Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 319. 

 Himalaya, 

 11-14,000 ft, 

 Lahul. 



small, perennial, felted or woolly, root stout, woody 

 stems few or many, 4-10 in. ; leaves radical 1-3 in., pal- 

 mately divided, segments i hort or long, linear blunt; 

 flowers yellow, in heads |-|^ in., forming a flat-topped woolly 

 cluster, biacts of the head broadly ovate with a woolly 

 disk, margins broad, dry, brown, floor of head convex 

 naked, corollas stout, cyhndric, 5-toothed, anther-bases 

 blunt, entire ; achenes flattened, 5-angled, ovoid with 

 a broad top, pappus hairs none. The roots are somet'mes 

 used for fuel. The English representative of this genus 

 is Tanacetum vulgare — Common Tansy. 



