FLAISTS OF TRE PVJSJAB. 



685 



Hkrbs, erect with Alternate Exstipulate Sim.ple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Flowers, Minute, in Heads. 



Flowers all Tubular. 



Laggera fiava, 



Composite. 



F. B. 1. iii. 270. 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. 



Laggera alata, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 271. 



Himalaya, 1-6,000 ft. 



Simla. 



Sutlej and Giri. 



Valleys (Oollett). 



Laggera pterodonta, 



Composure. 



P. B. L iii. 271. 



Himalaya. 



East of Sutlej, 4,000 ft. 



Laggera aurita, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 271. 

 The Plains. 



Sphseranthus indicus, 



Mundi, gorakmundi. 

 Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 275. 

 The Plains to 5,000 ft. 

 in dry rice fields. 



small to medium size, annual, slender or slightly 

 velvety; stem cylindrical, branched at the top or 

 not, grooved ; leaves 1-3 in. long, lower stalked, 

 upper ovate lanceolate or with a broad tip, half 

 stem-clasping, not prolonged down the stem, 

 sharply toothed ; flowers minute, bright yellow all 

 tubular, on few heads J in. diam., on slender 

 branches of loose clusters, bracts of heads outer 

 ovate short-pointed, inner lanceolate, long pointed 

 all smooth or with scattered bristles on the mar- 

 gins; corollas, inner tubular, 6-toothed, outer 

 thread-like, minutely toothed; anther-basis 2-lobed 

 or forked; style arms as in Blumea above; pappus 

 white; achenes very minute, smooth. 



medium size to large, perennial, much branched 

 velvety or felted, sometimes glandular; stem with 

 broad entire wings ; leaves 1-4 in. long, narrowly 

 oblong, short-pointed, rough above, woolly beneath; 

 sessile, prolonged down the stem ; flowers minute, 

 purplish in main heads ^ in. diam., in axillary 

 racemes, on winged branches often forming a large 

 terminal leafy cluster, drooping in fruit; bracts of 

 the head many, narrow, stifi', short-pointed, outer 

 shorter, green, often recurved, inner as long as the 

 flowers; pappus white; corollas as in the last species; 

 achenes small, hairy. 



like the last species, but more slender ; smooth 

 wings of stem toothed or lobed; leaves often lobed, 

 heads % in. diam., on slender stalks at the end of 

 the branches; bracts smooth, stifi'. 



like the last species, but hairy, sticky, glandular; 

 stem not winged; leaves very little prolonged down 

 the stem, often lobed, heads ^-f in. diam., in small 

 lateral or terminal clusters: flowers pink, bracts 

 soft, slender, silky. This plant smells of turpentine. 



medium size, annual, glandular softly hairy, 

 aromatic, branches with toothed wings ; leaves 1-2 

 in. long, oblong-ovate with a broad tip, narrowed 

 to the toothed base, prolonged down the branches, 

 blunt or short-pointed, toothed, teeth often bristle- 

 pointed, glandular-hairy on both surfaces ; flowers 

 pink or purple in globose terminal solitary com- 

 pound bracteate heads ^ in. diam., consisting of 



