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Herbs erect with Opposite Stipdlate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed 



Petals None. 



Pilea PePloides, small, stem and branches 3-5 ins., tufted, succulent, 



Urticace^. smooth ; Ifeaves ^-f in. long, round, ovate, tip rounded, 



F. B. I. V. 554. margin toothed above the middle, rarely smooth, 3- 



Upper Himalaya, Lahoul. nerved, base wedge-shaped, stalk H in. long, stipules 



minute ; flowers minute, green sessile in clusters on the 

 slender branches of stalked spreading, axillary racemes 

 2-4 ins. long, male and female flowers on the same 

 plant, male sepals 4, stamens 4, anthers white; female 

 sepals 3, unequal, stigma of a tuft of hairs ; carpel 

 nearly round, minute, smooth. 



Filea umbrosa, 



UBTICACEiB. 

 P. B. I. V. 556. 

 Himalaya, 4-9,000 ft. 

 Simla in shady places 

 (Collett). 



large, hairy, leaves 3-5 by 2-3^ ins., ovate, broadly 

 toothed, base wedge-shaped, tip tail-like, sharp- 

 pointed, stalk 1-3 ins., stipules nearly persistent, large ; 

 flowers as in the last species, but dorsal female sepal 

 much the longest, achenes minute ^^ in., pale, with a 

 raised intramarginal ridge. 



large, smooth, branched ; leaves 3-10 by 1-3 ins., 

 lanceolate narrowed to both ends, tip tail-like, teeth 

 small, shallow, stalk *-2 ins. long, stipules short ; 

 flowers like the last species, carpels rough. 



?ilea scripta, 

 Urticace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 556. 

 Himalaya, 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, in shady places 

 (Collett). 



Elatoatemxua 

 surculosum, 



Herbs erect with Opposite Stipulate Lobed Leaves 



see Herbs, Prostrate, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 



Fagonia arabiea 



or 



cretica, 



Jowaia. 



ZYGOPHYLLACE.a:. 



F. B.T. i.425, 

 Tbe Plains. 

 Commoa in fields. 

 Rawalpindi. 



Petals Ununited, 



small, annual, green, spiny with glandular woody 

 branches ; leaves small one to three lobed, leaflets 

 linear, short pointed, stalk often leaf -like, stipules of 

 two spines longer than the leaflets ; flowers pale rose- 

 coloured, small on solitary stalks between the spines, 

 sepals 5, soon falling ofl:, oblong-lanceolate, half the 

 length of the petals, petals 5, closed, soon falling off, 

 stamens 10, style and stigma undivided ; capsule 

 velvety, 5-cornered, 5-celled, two seeds in each cell. 



Fasonia Bru^nieri, 



see Herbs, Prostrate. Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 



