PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Herbs, ekect with Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals United. 

 Flowers, Minute, in Heads. 

 Flowers all Tubular. 



Carthamus oxyacantha, 



Kantiari, poll. 



COMPOSITJE. 



F. B. I. iii. 386. 

 The Plains. 



West of the Eavi. 

 Gujar Khan (Douie). 

 Rawalpindi. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Carthamus lanatus, 



medium size, annual, stem and branches white ; 

 leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, lower shortly 

 spinous-toothed, upper half stem-clasping, very 

 spinous ; flowers orange-yellow, outer bracts of head 

 longer than the flowers, white below the contracted 

 portion, green above it, with yellow spines ; for 

 other characters see the last species. This plant 

 may be the wild form of the last species. An illu- 

 minating oil is expressed from the seeds. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed 



Inner Flowers Tubular, Outer Ligulate. 



Myriactis nepalensis, 



Composite, 



F. B. I. iii. 247. 



Himalaya 4-10,000 ft. 



Simla (Collet). 



Kashmir. 



Myriactis Wallichii, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 247. 

 Himalaya, 4-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Rynchospermum verti- 



ciliatum, 

 Aster amellus, 



Aster Pseudameilus, 



Aster molliusculus, 

 Aster Tliomsoni, 



COMPOSITJE. 



F. B. I. iii. 252. 

 Himalaya, 7-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



medium size to large, annual, velvety or roughly 

 hairy, much branched ; leaves 1-3 in., lanceolate, 

 shortly stalked, stalks winged; flowers minute, outer 

 white, inner yeUow in heads ^-^ in. diam., in 

 clusters on diverging stalks, bracts of heads in 3-4 

 series, short-pointed, narrow, margins thin, after- 

 wards reflexed, floor of heads convex, broad, naked, 

 pappus none, corollas inner 4-5 toothed, outer 

 entire, short, anther-bases entire, style-arms nar- 

 row, flattened, lanceolate ; achenes flat, smooth, 

 margined. 



very like the last species, but more slender, less 

 hairy, heads smaller on slender stalks. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



medium size to large, annual, hairy, branches 

 bending at the joints ; leaves 2-4 by 1-2^ in., 

 broadly ovate, long-pointed, nearly sessile, base 

 narrowed, half stem- clasping, coarsely sharply 

 toothed; flowers, inner yellow, outer lilac or purple 

 in long-stalked solitary heads, 1^-2^ in. diam,, 



