PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



975 



Herbs erect with Opposite Stipulate Lohed Leaver. 



Petals Ununited. 



Brodixun malacoides, 

 Geeaniace^. 

 P. B. I. i. 435. 

 The Plains. 

 Attock, Peshawaur, 

 Hazara (Stewart.;) 

 Rawalpindi. 

 Kot Fateh Khan (Douie). 



small, annual, softly haiiy, stem erect or widely 

 spreading ; leaves ovate oblong, blunt or sharp-point- 

 ed, velvety, cut into three lobes only, not again sub- 

 divided, stipules large, thin, dry, blunt or sharp- 

 pointed ; flowers small, lilac on three-to many flower- 

 ed stalks, bracts ovate, thin, dry, finely hairy, sepals 

 5, thin, two outer o-and three inner 3-nerved, the 

 bristle point hairy, petals 5, tip broad, 9-nerved, 

 stamens 5 with 5 staminodes ; carpels stalked, 3- 

 angled. beaks 4-5 times as long as the cell, with stiff 

 brown hairs for I of its length, pits on beaks with a 

 deep fold. 



CannaMs sativa, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



(To be continued.) 



