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 •PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



A BRIEF DESOEIPTIVE KEY TO THE FLORA OF THE PUNJAB, 

 NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE AND KASHMIR. 



By 



Colonel C. J. Bambee, f.l.s., 



Indian Medical Service. 



Part IX. 



(Continued from page llOid of Volume XX.) 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipxjlate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals United. 



Dipsacus inermis, 

 Teasel. 



DlPSACE^. 



F. B. L iii. 217. 

 Himalaya, 6-12,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 



(Collett). 

 Changlagalli (Douie). 



Dipsacus strictus, 



DiPSACBiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 217. 

 Himalaya, 7,000 ft. 

 Ohamba. 



Flowep.s Small, in Heads. 



large, stout, rough with stiff hairs, roughest 

 under the flower heads ; leaves 3-12 ins., lower 

 leaves deeply divided, end lobe largest, upper, 

 ovate or lanceolate or some divided into three 

 lobes, shortly hairy on both surfaces, stalks dilated, 

 united at the base ; flowers white, small, many, in 

 nearly round terminal long-stalked, solitary or 

 several heads, 1 in. diam., surrounded by 6-8 

 spreading, leaf-like bracts, bracteoles or scales on 

 the base of the head (receptacle) concave, abruptly 

 narrowed in long, fringed, spine-like points, pro- 

 jecting above the flowers when in bud, calyx 

 double owing to an epi calyx (involucel), calyx 

 proper cup-shaped, hairy, 4- angled, 4-lobed on the 

 achene, epicalyx 8-ribbed, surrounding the achene, 

 corolla velvety, unequally 4-lobed, stamens 4, 

 anthers protruding, stigma linear ; achene with the 

 8-ribbed epicalyx, crowned with the calyx, which 

 falls off later. 



very like the last species, but larger, more of the 

 leaves undivided, flowers cream coloured, and fewer 

 heads. 



