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106 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 50<br />
usually yellow-green and purple ;<br />
sometimes conspicuous from<br />
a petal-like border. The margins of the gland are rounded<br />
and entire, or crescent-shaped with projecting horns. In the<br />
same involucre there are many male flowers. Each male<br />
flower consists of one stamen without sepals or petals. In<br />
the centre of each involucre there is a female flower surrounded<br />
by the male flowers. The female flower consists only<br />
of a 3-celled ovary supported on a stalk and protruding from<br />
the involucre and from between the male flowers. The ovary<br />
is surmounted by 3 usually branched styles. The fruit is<br />
a 3-lobed capsule which splits into 3 cocci, each containing<br />
one seed.<br />
A. Leaves alternate.<br />
I. Glands of involucre kidney-shaped... E. Wallichit.<br />
II.<br />
Glands of involucre crescent-shaped.<br />
1. Glands also 2-horned.<br />
a. Leaves linear or oblong ... E. prolifera.<br />
b. Leaves inversely egg-spoonshaped<br />
... ... ... E. Maddeni.<br />
2. Glands not horned E. falcata.<br />
III. Glands of involucre rounded, entire.<br />
1. Styles united for about half their<br />
length ... ... ... ... E. pilosa.<br />
2. Styles free to the base E. helioscopia.<br />
IV. Glands of involucre with crisply<br />
wavy margin<br />
V. Glands of involucre transversely<br />
oblong.<br />
1. Involucre with 4 hairy lines within<br />
2. Involucre hairless within<br />
E. Jacquemontii.<br />
E. Thorn soniana.<br />
E. tibetica.<br />
B. Leaves opposite.<br />
I. Glands of involucre green. Styles<br />
short.<br />
1. Leaves -1 in. long<br />
2. Leaves J in. long<br />
II. Glands of involucre purple. Styles<br />
long<br />
E. hypericifolia.<br />
E. thymifolia.<br />
E. Emodi.
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