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Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals United. 



Scabiosa Olivieri, 

 Scabious, 



DlPSACE.E. 



F. B. I. iii. 219. 

 The Low Hills of 

 Peshawar (Vicary) 

 Rawalpindi. 

 Hazara (Stewart). 

 The Park, Rawalpindi. 

 Baluchistan (Stocks). 



Flowers Small, in Heads. 



small, annual, branched, hairy, stem leaf}' : leaves 

 2 by J in., narrowly oblong, slightly toothed, or 

 4 by 2 in., deeply divided into pointed lobes ; 

 flowers purple, small, in few-flowered small terminal 

 heads, bracts J in., oblong-lanceolate, surrounding 

 the heads, calyx of 2 portions, epicalyx (involucel) 

 7} in. diam., 1(5-20 ribbed, calyx proper with short 

 teeth and bristles ,\ in. barbed, brown, corolla 

 tubular, 4-5 lobed, all equal, much shorter than the 

 calyx-bristles, hairy without, stamens 4, style 

 filiform ; achenes crowned by the epicalyx and 

 calyx-bristles, silky. 



Scabiosa speciosa, 



Dipsace.e. 



F. B. L iii. 219. 



Himalaya, 7-9,000 ft. 



Kashmir 



Kagan (Douie). 



medium size, branched, rootstock perennial ; 

 leaves 2 by ] in., obhmg, pinnatifid at the base 

 with small lobes ; flowers mauve, small, in many- 

 flowered large terminal, stalked, radiate heads, 

 bracts ^-ft in., narrowly oblong, involucel i in.^ 

 nearly bell-shaped, calyx-bristles nearly black, 

 corolla with ray f in., corolla without ray in the 

 centre of the flower f in.; achenes | in., silky 

 below, upper S-ribbed, deeply pitted within the 

 ribs ; otherwise like the last species. 



Bidens tripai^tita, 

 Bur-Nfarigoict. 



OoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 309. 

 Himalaya, 3-o,000 ft. 

 Dharmpur. 



medium-size, annual, smooth, velvet}' above ; 

 leaves 8-0 in., digitately 3-o-lobed, lobes lanceolate, 

 toothed, terminal longest ; flowers yellow, small in 

 discoid heads, % in. diam. on short, erect stalks, 

 bracts longer than the flowers, in 2 or 3 series join- 

 ed below, outer green, longer than the flowers,, 

 inner thin ; receptacle with narrow flat scales nearly 

 as long as the flowers ; calyx (pappus) of two barbed 

 bristles on the achene, corolla-tubes narrow, dilated 

 at the top, o-toothed ; style arms hairy ; achenes ^ 

 in., smooth, wedge-shaped, barbed along the sides,, 

 bristles very short, two. 



