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Herbs, ebect, with Alxbknate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



Flowers Minute iis Heads. 



Flowers all Tubular. 



Saussurea Jacea, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 375. 

 Kashmir, 9-15,000 ft. 

 (Falconer). 



JuHnea modesta, 



CoMPOSITuE. 



F. B. I. iii. 378. 

 N. W. F. Province. 

 Peshawar (Vicary). 



Volutareiia davaricata, 

 Centaurea Cyanus, 

 Centaurea depressa, 

 Centaurea polycephala, 

 Carthamus tinctorius, 



Oicomma tomentosa, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 387. 



The Plains. 



large, stiff, stem cylindrical, not grooved, bran- 

 ches very leafy ; leaves 3-4 by ]f-2i in., ovate or 

 oblong, blunt or short-pointed, sessile, half stem- 

 clasping, rough on both surfaces or pinnately divi- 

 ded, terminal lobe largest; flowers purplish % in., in 

 heads ^-f in diam. solitary, terminal on straight 

 rather slender stalks or in flat-topped clusters, 

 bracts of the heads few, stiff, broad, margins pur- 

 ple, outer bracts ovate, blunt or short-pointed, 

 inner lanceolate, receptacle flat with long flattened 

 bristles, curved, stifl', corollas 5-toothed, pappus 

 hairs ^ in. brown, anthers forked ; achenes \ in., 

 smooth, shining, ribs slender, tops abruptly cut 

 off. 



small, annual, cottony, branched from the base, 

 branches short ending in very long leafless slender 

 one-headed stalks ; leaves 2-3 in. lanceolate, short- 

 pointed, sessile running down the stem, sometimes 

 widely toothed ; flowers ^ in. purple in solitary 

 heads 1 in. diam., bracts of the heads in many 

 series, overlapping, inner narrow, erect, sometimes 

 red, outer shorter, ovate, long-pointed, green with 

 thin margins, bristles of the receptacle \ as long 

 as the flowers, corollas slender, 5-toothed, anther 

 bases forked, pappus hairs ^ in., white, shining, 

 inner hairs stiff, two much longer, flattened, ache- 

 nes ^ in. flattened angles thickened, pale, smooth, 

 shining. . 



Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



small to medium size, annual much branched, 

 covered with white cottony wool; leaves 1-3 in., 

 linear, blunt or short-pointed ; flowers \ in. white 

 or pale yellow, in many solitary, nearly axillary 

 and terminal heads §-1 in. diam., bracts of the 

 heads i-§ in. linear-lanceolate, spinous, shining, 

 tips yellow, stiff, corollas 5-toothed, anther-bases 

 forked, bearded, pappus hairs \ in., pale brown, 

 outer slender, inner lanceolate-awl-shaped, ribbed, 



