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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Jurinea 

 ceratocarpa, 



Jurinea 

 macrocephala, 



Dhup, gugal, 



sliangar. 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 378. 



Himalaya, 



11-14,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



Serratula pallida. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



medium size, perennial, root woody, stemless ; leaves 

 6-18 by l|-7 in., oblong-lanceolate, pinnate or pinnately 

 divided, lobes contiguous, lobulate or pinnately divided, 

 sometimes crisped, finely toothed, teeth short-pomted or 

 with a large stiff point on a nearly straight margin, cob- 

 webby or cottonj' above, white-felted beneath, flowers 

 1-1 J in., purple, in many sessile or shortly stalked heads 

 3-30, |-1 in. diam., stalks of head stout, cottony or felted 

 at the base, bracts of the head |-H in., outer ovate-lance- 

 olate, inner oblong-lanceolate, long-pointed, rough or 

 smooth, erect, bristles of floor of head short, veiy stiff, 

 united into cups ; achenes |-| in., curved, flattened, 4-5- 

 angled, ashy grey, tubercled, pappus hairs abundant, 1 in., 

 brown, united at the base. The roots called Dhup are 

 used as incense in Thibet, and exported to the Plains as a 

 medicine. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Inner tubular, outer ligulate. 

 Tridax procumbens, see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Achillea Millefolium, 

 Milfoil or Yarrow, 



MomadriL 



chopandiga 



(Kashmir). 



Buimaderan 



(Pushtu). 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 312. 



Himalaya, 



6-11,000 ft. 



Mahasu, Hattu 



(Collett). 



Kashmir. 



small to medium size, perennial, velvety, root bear- 

 ing runners, stems 6-18 in., grooved, leafy ; leaves 2-6 in., 

 narrowly oblong-lanceolate, pinnately divided and re-divid- 

 ed, segments close set, Imear, short-pointed, radical stalked, 

 stem leaves sessile ; flowers, inner yellow, outer white or 

 pinkish, in ovoid, shortly-stalked heads | in. diam., crowd- 

 ed in compound flat-topped branching racemes, bracts of 

 head few, erect, outer shorter, floor of head flat, covered 

 with thin oblong scales, nearly equal to the corollas, inner 

 flowers 5-toothed, outer ligules rounded, reflexed, anther- 

 bases blunt, style-arms tipped with long brushes of hairs, 

 pappus none ; achenes oblong, flattened with 2 hard wings, 

 shining. This plant was used in Europe as an aromatic, 

 stimulant and is still used in India. 



