PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Herbs, erect with Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple LEAvr.s 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Flowers, Minute, in Heads. 



Inner Flowers Tubular, Outer Ligulate. 



Erigeron asteroides, 



COMPOSIT.E. 



F. B. I. iii. 254. 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. 



Erigeron beliidioides, 



Composure. 



F. B. I. iii. 256. 



Himalaya, 5-10,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



Erigeron multiradiatus, 

 Conyza Japonica, 



Conyza stricta, 



Composite.. 

 F. B. I. iii. 258. 

 Bimalaya 1-6,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Hazara. 

 Kashmir. 



Inula racemosa, 



COMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 292. 

 Himalaya 6-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 

 Spiti. 



medium size, annual, velvety or hairy, with 

 sticky glands ; leaves 1-2 in., oblong or ovate with 

 a broad tip, stalked, often lobulate, stem leaves 

 f-1 in. half stem clasping ; flowers in neads \-^ in. 

 diam., stalked solitary or nearly clustered, ligules 

 very narrow, blue rather longer than the reddish 

 or dirty-white pappus, bracts of the heads very 

 narrow with hair points, much shorter than the 

 pappus, achenes -^ in. nearly smooth — ; for other 

 characters see the last described species. 



like the last species, but perennial, slender spar- 

 ingly branched, smooth, radical leaves lanceolate, 

 stem leaves sessile but not half stem-clasping, heads 

 I in. diam., long-stalked, few, ligules 3 times as 

 long as the red pappus hairs, achenes slightly 

 silky. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



medium size, grey velvety or rough, leafy much 

 branched ; leaves |-2 in., narrowly linear to ovate 

 with a broad tip prolonged into a short stalk, often 

 entire or rarely pinnately lobed ; flowers in heads 

 i in. diam., long-stalked in flat-topped clusters, 

 bracts of heads narrowly — lanceolate, pappus in., 

 reddish, corollas yellow, outer minutely ligulate 

 inner 5-toothed, anther-bases blunt, entire, style- 

 arms flattened ; achenes Jjj in., flattened. 



medium size to large, rough, stem stout, grooved; 

 leaves felted beneath, round-toothed, radical 8-18 

 by 5-8 in., oblong-lanceolate, narrowed into a stalk 

 as long as the blade, upper oblong, half stem- 

 clasping ; flowers, all yellow, in many large heads, 

 1^-2 in. diam., in racemes, bracts of heads, inner 

 linear short-pointed, outer broad, green with 

 triangular turned-back points, outermost usually 

 leafy, pappus hairs ^ in., reddish, corollas inner 

 long 5-toothed, outer with ligules | in. slender, 

 3-toothed, anther-bases forked, tails simple or 

 branched, style-arms linear, broader above, blunt ; 

 achenes i in.^ smooth, slender. 



