510 



Plants of the Punjab, 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Launaea secunda, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 416. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley 

 (CoUett). 

 Hazara, 



Androsace 

 rotundifolia, 



PRIMULACEiE. 



F. B. I. iii, 496, 

 Himalaya, 

 5-11,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 

 (Collett). 

 Murree, Kahuta, 

 Sakesar (Douie). 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all ligulate. 



medium size to large, aimual or perennial, smooth, 

 juice yellow, stems nearly solitary, leafless, stiff, unbranch- 

 ed or sparingly so ; leaves radical many, 4-8 by 1-3 in., 

 oblong, pinnately divided, margins of old leaves set with 

 miuute sharp hard teeth, stem leaves none or few ; flowers 

 yellow, in narrow heads -|-| in. long, shortly stalked, soli- 

 tary or in small clusters of 2 or 3, forming long one-sided 

 racemes, bracts of the head many, green, margins white, 

 inner long, narrow, equal, outer shorter, floor of head 

 flat naked, pappus soft, white, not feathery, united 

 below ; achenes narrowly oblong, strongly ribbed. 



Flowers not in heads, 



small, perennial, velvety-glandular or hairy ; leaves 

 all radical, |-1| in. diam., stalk 1-4 in., rounded-heart- 

 shaped, lobed, lobes very shallow, round-toothed, blade 

 shorter than the stalk ; flowers deep to pale pink, in umbels 

 at the end of slender erect stalks, bracts round, umbels 

 wedge-shaped, toothed, sessile or stalked, calyx tubular, 

 5-lobed, lobes short-pointed, enlarged and spreading in 

 fruit, corolla salver-shaped, J-| in. diam., tube shorter 

 than the calyx, narrowed, wrmkled at the mouth, lobes 5, 

 spreading, entire or slightly notched, stamens 5, included 

 T the corolla, style short, stigma round; capsule ovoid, 

 splitting from the top in 5 valves, smaller than the calyx, 

 feeds few, usually 2, minute, rounded, granulate. 



Petals united. 



Cortusa Matthioli, 



PRIMULACE-ffi;. 



F.B. I.iii. 501. 

 Kashmir, 

 Lahul, 7-9,000 ft. 



Celsia 

 coromandeliana, 



small, perennial, velvety ; leaves 1-4 in. diam., rounded- 

 heart-shaped, 7-9-lobed, lobes shallow, round-toothed, 

 leaf stalk 4-6 in.; flowers |-| in. diam., purple, in 6-10- 

 flowered umbels at the end of slender stalks much longer 

 than the leaf stalks, bracts |-| in., lanceolate, calyx bell- 

 shaped, 5-lobed, small, lobes ovate, corolla tube very 

 short, deeply cleft into 5 lobes, throat naked, lobes oblong, 

 blunt, anthers 5, nearly sessile at the base of the corolla, 

 forked, nearly meeting above, style thread-like, protrud- 

 ing ; capsule ovoid, 5-valved, many-seeded. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



