PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



593 



Herbs, erect, with Alternate Exstipulate, Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Flowers, Minute, in Heads. 



Inner Flowers Tubular, Outer Ligulate. 



ronicum Roylei, 



Darunaj-akrabi. 



CoMPOSITxE. 



F. B. I. iii. 332. 

 Himalaya, 10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Senecio amplexicaulis, 



OOMPOSIT.E. 



F. B. I. iii. 348. 

 Himalaya, 9-13,000 ft. 

 The Ohor (Collett). 



Senecio Thomsoni 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 348. 



Kashmir, 7-10,000 ft. 



Senecio Ligularia, 



C0MPOSIT.E. 



F. B. I. iii. 349. 



Himalaya, 9-12,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



medium size to large, perennial, somewhat hairy 

 or woolly ; leaves 4-5 in. long, broadly ovate, 

 toothed with rounded notches, radical long-stalked, 

 upper half stem-clasping, leaf -stalks, 4-6 in. 

 flowers yellow in long slender stalked heads 1-2 m. 

 diam., with a top-shaped swelling on the stalk, just 

 below the head, floor of head naked, bracts of 

 head in two series, green, i-§ in. long, with fine 

 long points, papptis of inner flowers short, reddish, 

 pappus of outer flowers none, corollas, outer, 1, — 

 series, ligules long, entire, or 2-3-toothed, inner 

 tubular, 5-toothed ; anther-bases entire or nearly 

 forked, style-arms linear; achenes top-shaped and 

 oblong, deeply grooved, all smooth or outer slightly 

 hairy. This plant is used in Indian medicine as 

 an aromatic tonic. 



large, perennial, stem hollow, thick as the thumb 

 below, nearly smooth ; leaves 12 in. diam. or less, 

 circular-kidney-shaped, base forked or not, lower 

 leaf-stalks simple or partly winged, upper with a 

 broad stem-sheathing wing ; flowers yellow in 

 many-flowered heads, 1-2 in. diam., nodding in 

 large flat-topped clusters, becoming racemose in 

 fruit, branches of cluster velvety, bracts of heads 

 1-5 in., about 8 united below, smooth, oblong, 

 short-pointed, floor of head flat, naked, pappus 

 hairs many reddish, corollas, inner 6-toothed, 

 slender, outer 5-6, very long, anther-bases blunt, 

 style-arms recurved ; achenes 1-5 in., 5-10-ribbed, 

 smooth. 



like the last s^Decies, but more slender, smooth 

 below, smooth or cottony above, leaves not more 

 than 10 in. diam., leaf stalk of floral leaves 

 slender not winged, axils of clusters with long 

 linear bracts, heads 5-6 flowered, bracteoles linear 

 or thread-like, ligules 1-2 very long, achenes ^ in. 

 long. 



very like Senecio amplexicaulis abo?e, but the 

 flower-heads form an unbranched drooping termin- 

 al raceme, bracteles none, bracts at the base of 

 the main stalks small large and leafy, bracts of 

 heads ununited, ligules 8-10, ^-f in., achenes ^ in., 

 narrow, longer than the reddish pappus. 



