PgLiCABiA.] COMPOSITE, 465 



Dehra Dun, Siviralik range, and in the Sub -Himalayan tracts of Eohil- 

 khand and N. Ou^, Distrib. Drier parts of India from the 

 Punjab eastwards to Bengal, and south to the Konkan; also Skardu 

 in W. Tibet extending to Afghanistan. A shorter and stouter plant 

 fhan the preceding and with more ^ numerous and narrower ligules. 

 The achenes and pappus are similar in both. 



21. PULICARIA, Ggertn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 297. 



Annual or perennial herbs, nsually woolly or villous. Leaves 

 alternate, sessile, often amplexicaul. Reads solitary, radiate and 

 heterogamous or disciform and homogamous, yellow. Ttay^flowers 

 female, 1-2-seriate ; ligules narrow, or minute or 0. Dish-Jlowers 

 2-sexual, fertile, slender ; limb elonp:ate, shortly 5-fid. Involucre 

 hemispheric or obeonio ; bracts in few series, narrow, acuminate 

 or awned. Receptacle flat or subconvex, pitted. Anther -ha ses 

 sagittate ; tails capillary, simple or branched. Style-arms of female 

 flowers linear, obtuse. Achenes terete or ribbed. Pappus double ; 

 outer of short jagged teeth ; inner of smooth scabrid or bearded 

 filiform or flattened hairs. — Species about 24, in Europe, Asia, and 

 Africa. 



Eay-flowers tubular, achenes hairy . , 1. P. foliolosa' 



Eay-flowers ligulate, achenes glahrate. 



Leaves flat, entire or serrulate . . 2. P. angusUfolia, 



Leaves cottony beneath, margins recurved 



toothed and crisped . . . . 3. P. crispa. 



1. P. foUolosa, DC. Prod, v, 480; F. B. I. iii, 298; Watt E. D.; Cooke 

 Fl. Bomh. ii, 34. Blumea senecionidea, Edgew. Fl. Banda 16. 



A copiously branched annual, 1-2 ft. high, suhglabrous below, gland" 

 pubescent or tomentose above. Leaves sessile, 1-6 in. long, linear oblong 

 or oblanceolate from a broad or contracted l-amplexicaul base, entire. 

 Heads on slender peduncles, woolly and glandular. Invol-hrads sub- 

 setaceous, woolly and glandular outside. Ray-fiorets filiform, tubular. 

 Achenes very small, minutely hairy. Inner ipappus-hairs few, white ; 

 outer a minute cup with serrate edges. 



Beds and banks of rivers, and in open waste ground, but not common, 

 Bundelkhand (Edgeworth). Distbib. Eastwards to Bengal and the 

 Sikkim Terai, and south to the C. Prov. and Bombay ; extending also 

 through the Punjab to Afghanistan and Baluchistan, where it is suffi- 

 ciently abundant to be used as fodder for camels. 



2. P. angustifolia, DC. Prod, v, 479; F. B. I. iii, 299; CooTce Fl, 

 Bomb, ii, 34. P. saxicola, Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix, 323. 



A very variable herb, glaucous and softly pubescent. Stems usually 

 procumbent, 3-9 in. long, sometimes woody at the base. Branches 



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