PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 819 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Flowers, Minute, in Heads. 



Siegesbeckia owentalis, medium size, sticky with crisped hairs, a common 



Composite. weed near cultivation, much branched, often pur- 



F. B. I. lii. 303. plish ; leaves 1-5 in. long, triangular ovate, deeply 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. toothed, upper leaves almost without teeth, leaf 



Simla (Collett). stalks winged, flowers yellow, rarely white, radiate 



Murree. with ray flowers, in heads \ in. diam., arranged in 



leafy branching racemes, bracts sticky in 2 rows 



outer five long, narrow, spreading, inner shorter 



erect, receptacle flat covered with small concave 



scales, calyx hairs (pappus) none, outer corollas 



with rays (ligules) 2 or 3-lobed, inner corollas 3-5 



lobed, achenes curved, angled, blunt at the base. 



B la^nv illea latifolia, or medium size, stiff, much branched, roughly hairy 



rhomboiaea. annual ; leaves stalked, 2-4 in. long, ovate or ovate 



mpositje. lanceolate, hairy on both surfaces, short or long 



• U1 " pointed, slightly round toothed, upper leaves some- 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. timeg a i ternate . flowers yellow or white, outer 



Below Sipi (Collett). rayed in heads J~§ in. diam., terminal at the end 



of branches or axillary, bracts few in two rows, 



outer broad, leaf-like, inner passing into scales, 



receptacle covered with rigid concave scales each 



holding a flower, pappus of 2-5 unequal bristles 



joined into a ring, rays of outer flowers 2 or 3- 



toothed, corolla of inner (disk) flowers 5-toothed ; 



achenes 3-angled, inner ones often flattened. 



Schlerocarpus africanus, medium size, annual, roughly hairy, leaves l|-3 

 Composite. in., ovate, short pointed, toothed, stalked ; flowers 



F. B. I. iii. 305. yellow in sessile or stalked heads in the forks or at 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. the end of branches, heads j-J in. diam., bracts 

 Valleys below Simla in few, leaf-like, outer spreading, receptacle covered 

 cornfields (Collett), with large ribbed scales, rays of outer flowers broad, 

 notched, spreading, corolla of disk flowers 3-5 tooth- 

 ed, pappus (calyx hairs) none ; achenes curved, 

 ribbed, enclosed by the rough boat-shaped scales 

 of the receptacle. 



