PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Herbs, ekbct, with Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



Flowers, Minute, in Heads. 



Flowers all Ligulate. 



Tragopogon porrifolium, 



Scorzonera divaricata, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii, 418. 



Himalaya, 9-15,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



Scorzonera purpurea, 



Composite. 

 F. B. L iii. 418. ' 

 Kashmir, Banahal, 



8,000 ft. 



Cephalostigma hirsutum, 

 Wahlenbergia gracilis, 



Codonopsis ovata, 



Campanulace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 433. 

 Himalaya, 8-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Sphenoclea zeylanica, 



CAMPANULACEiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 437. 



The Plains in swamps. 



Phyteuma Thomsoni, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



small to medium size, perennial, smooth, root 

 woody, stem slender, rarely unbranched, grooved, 

 branches very divergent, leaves 2-6 by jg — J in., 

 linear, slender, curved, margins incurved ; flowers 

 yellow in large long-stalked cylindric heads 1-1^ 

 in. diam. 5-8 flowered, bracts of receptacles 4-8 in 

 several rows, outer short, broad, inner long, linear, 

 smooth or velvety, achenes § in., very slender, pale, 

 smooth, not winged, longer than the pappus, pap- 

 pus hairs feathery below. 



like the last species, but sometimes woolly, 



flowers purple, achenes angled, shorter than the 

 pappus. 



Flowers not in Heads. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



small, perennial, root woody, spindle-shaped 

 leaves J-f by ^-^ in., ovate, blunt or short-pointed, 

 hairy on both surfaces, stalk ^-f in. ; flowers sky- 

 blue, 1-lf by 5-§ in., on long, terminal stalks, 3-6 in 

 long, calyx lobes 5, ^ by g^ in., oblong with rounded 

 ends, minutely hairy ; corolla widely bell-shaped, 

 o-toothed, stamens 5, style 3-lobed ; capsules ^-^ 

 in. broad, depressed, conical with the broad base 

 above, beaks g in. long, seeds very many, slightly 

 flattened, smooth, brown. 



medium size to large, annual, smooth, branched, 

 or unbranched, stout; leaves 2-3 in., lanceolate, 

 narrowed at both ends, sessile or shortly stalked, 

 smooth, flowers small, greenish-yellow in dense 

 bracteate and bracteolate, spikes |-2 in. long on 

 stalks 1-2 in. long, calyx lobes 5, ^ in. in fruit/o 

 in., triangular, closely-bent in, corolla bell-shaped, 

 54obed, stamens 5, on the corolla and alternate 

 with its lobes, style short, hardly 2-lobed ; capsule 

 ^ in diam. wedge-shaped and angled below crown- 

 ed with the calyx-lobes, seeds minute, rough with 

 very minute pappillee or scales. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



