686 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXII. 



HeBBS, ilRECT WITH AlXERNATE ExSTIPULATE SlMPLE LeAVES. 



Leap Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Flowers, Minute, in Heads. 



Flowers all Tubular. 



Phagnalon niveum, 

 Pulicaria crispa, 



Carpesium cernum, 



Oompositje. 

 F. B. I. iii. SOO. 

 Himalaya, 6-800 ft. 

 Simla, Mahasu, (Col- 

 lett.) 



Carpesium trachelifolium, 



Composure. 

 F. B. I. iii. 301. 

 Himalaya, 4-6,000 ft. 

 Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 

 The Glen, Simla. 



Carpesium abrotanoides, 



Adenocaulon bicolor, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 302. 

 Himalaya, 6-9,000 ft. 

 Narkanda (Collett). 



very small crowded heads, each with 12 flowers 

 bracts of small heads linear, hairy at the tip, as 

 long as the flowers; pappus none; outer corollas 

 10-12, 4-5-toothed, inner 2-3, slender, straight 2-3- 

 toothed, style-arms thread-like or united ; achenes 

 oblong, stalked, smooth. This plant is used to 

 make a bitter tonic and a vermifuge in Indian 

 medicine. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 

 Toothed, Flowers in heads, outer ligulate. 



medium size to large, annual, velvety to shortly 

 hairy ; leaves 2-5 by f-l-| in., lanceolate to ovate, 

 nearly sessile to long-winged stalks, sharply point- 

 ed, toothed ; flowers minute, yellow in terminal 

 solitary nodding heads ^-1 in. diam. with large 

 leafy bracts at the base or on long naked stiff 

 stalks; bracts of heads many, outer green, more or 

 less leaf-like, inner shorter, dry broad, oblong, 

 blunt, margin white; pappus none; corolla of outer 

 flowers 3-toothed, of inner, slightly larger, 6-tooth- 

 ed; anther bases forked; tails slender; style-arms 

 linear, blunt, converging at first ; achenes long- 

 ribbed, not hairy, tip beaked, glandular. 



like the last species, but more slender, more 

 hairy; leaves smaller, long stalked, sometimes lobu- 

 late-toothed with rounded notches, heads never 

 larger than \ in. diam., solitary or in clusters at 

 the end of long axillary stalks. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 

 Entire. 



medium size to large, perennial; stem and bran- 

 ches covered with grey cottony hairs ; leaves 2-4 

 in. diam., circular, toothed and angled with round- 

 ed margins, smooth above, white-felted beneath, 

 upper smaller, sessile, lower long-stalked, more or 

 less winged, wing often toothed; flowers small, 

 white or pale yellow in heads \ in. diam., in 

 loose branching racemes; branches slender, sticky 

 from glands towards the ends; bracts of heads, 5, 

 green, spreading, bent back in fruit; flowers about 



