PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Hekbs, ekect, with Opposite Exstipitlate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals United. 



Ploweks Small, in Heads. 



Bidens pilosa, 



Oomposit.^. 



F. B. I. iii. 309. 



Var. pilosa proper. 



The Plains to 6,000 ft. , , • ,., n . 



,^ ,, , , o- 1 rousrn : otherwise like the last species 



Valleys below Simla ° ^ 



(Collett). 



Kasauli. 



small, hairy or smooth ; leaves o-o in., pinnate, 

 leaflets 3-5, ovate, toothed ; flowers tubular in the 

 centre, along the edge supplied with white ligules 

 or rays, pappus of 3 barbed bristles ; achenes linear 



very like the last species, but the leaves are 

 twice pinnate, segments cut and lobed variously, 

 and ligules yellow. 



Bidens Wallichii, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 309. 



Var. bipinnata. 



The Plains to 8,000 ft. 



Simla (Collett). 



Dewal (Douie). 



Dharmpur. 



Giossogyne pinnatifida, small, perennial, root spindle-shaped, woody, 



GoMPOSiTiE. stem and branches slender, forked, sparingly leafy; 



F. B. I. iii. 310. leaves 1-2 in., with the stalk, triangular, divided 



The Plains. into linear, pointed segments, few, often turned 



down, leathery, flowering branches 6-12 in., straight, 



stifl", grooved ; flowers j^ellow, small, in few small 



heads, \ in. diam., arranged in flat-topped clusters, 



heads with flowers all tubular or central ones tubular 



and outer ligulate, receptacle small, flat, scales 



thin, bracts in 2-3 series, J in. blunt, narrow, joined 



below, pappus (calyx) of 2 bristles, rough from 



reversed hairs, corolla tubular, 5-toothed, anther 



bases blunt, style arms with long hairy tips ; 



achenes ^—}^ in., deeply grooved, black. 



Stamens fouk. 



crophularia lucida, meditim-size, perennial, stout, stems somewhat 



ScBOPHULAKiACE^. 4-angled, smooth or glandular, velvety ; leaves 1-2 



F. B. I. iv. 256. in., siwgly or doubly pinnately divided, segments 



Himalaya, 8-10,000 ft. spreading very unequal, oblong, ovate or lanceolate 



Kashmir. margins deeply cut or toothed, horizontal ; flowers 



