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Plants of the Punjab. 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Exstipulatb Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 

 Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Csesulia axillaris, 



Composit-s:. 



F. B. I. iii. 291. 



The Plains to 



3,000 ft. 



Sutlej Valley, in rice 



fields (CoUett). 



small, annual, smooth, stems 6-12 in., stout, branched, 

 prostrate or almost erect ; leaves 2-6 in., sessile, narrowly 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, tapering to the forked base, teeth 

 small, far apart ; flowers blue, in axillary sessile round 

 heads, |-f in. diam., each head consisting of minor heads 

 with one flower, bracts 2 to each flower, opposite, surround- 

 ing it, keeled and winged at the back, tips erect, free 

 pappus scales with a sharp point, corolla tubular, 5-toothed ; 

 achenes -j-\^-| in., flattened, a prominent ridge down the 

 centre of each face, with scattered hairs. 



Pulicaria 

 angustifolia. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Flowers in heads, Inner Tubular, Outer Ligulate. 



Cotula aurea, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 



Centipeda 

 orbicularis, 



Nakkchikni, 

 pachittie. 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 317. 

 The Plains, in moist 

 places. 



very small, annual, smooth or rather woolly, stems 

 spreading from the root, very many, 4-8 in. long, slender, 

 leafy ; leaves ^-| in. long, oblong-ovate with a broad tip, 

 teeth few ; flowers yellow, very minute in round solitary 

 axillary almost sessile heads, ^-^-l in. diam., corollas bell- 

 shaped, 4-fid, floor of head naked, bracts of the head in 

 2 series, spreading in fruit, pappus none ; achenes 4-angled, 

 tip blunt, angles hairy, hairs simple. 



Saussurea Atkinsoni, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



P. B. I. iii. 367. 

 Himalaya, 

 10-18,000 ft. 

 Kashmr, 



stemless, rootstock undivided, smooth, o: mid-ribs of 

 leaves beneath velvety, leaves 3-5, 2|-4 by l|-3 in., stalked 

 or sessile, spreading flat on the ground, broadly ovate 

 with a broad tip, or oblong with rounded ends, thin, toothed, 

 net-veined ; flowers I in. long, bluish purple in a sessile 

 solitary head, |-1 in. long, inner bracts of head linear-oblong,, 

 thin, outer ovate-lanceolate, erect or recurved, smooth, 

 or margins velvety, corollas all tubular ; achenes smooth 

 pappus I in. brown, outer bristles few, roughish. 



