PLANTS GATHERED IN AND ABOUT AlDSSOOniE. 489 



Nieandia phy$aloi<i?s. 



Datura stramonium. 



LV.-SCROPHU- 

 L^RINE^. 



Sorophularia himaleii- 

 tii. 



Mazui rugosut. 



Torenia roraifoUa. 



Leptorhabdoa bentfia- 

 mianx. 



Pedicularis carnosa. 

 LVI-GESNERA- 



Chirita bifolla. 



Platytlemma mohnden. 



LVIL-ACANTHA- 



CEiE. 



StrithiJanthes dalhousl- 

 anus. 



Strohilanthet alatua. 



Justieia gimplex. 



Adhatoda vasica 



Is a very common roadside plant and bears showy 

 blue flowers during the rains and fruits in October. 



The thorn apple is common on all waste places 

 chiefly near houses ; flowers during the rains. Variety 

 • tatula " bearing purple flowers is also found. 



Common : flowers during the rains. 



Common in shady damp spots, flowers throughout 

 the rains, a prettj' little plant bearing light blue 

 flowers. 



Foimd in old fields below Mussoorie. In flower 

 during the rains. 



Found on Gentian hill, in flower during Septem- 

 ber. 



Is very common, growing in grass ; Flowers during 

 September. 



Is found in Mussoorie on i ocks in shade, but it is 

 very common on the Rtijpur Road below Jherri- 

 pani. A pretty annual, bears long purple-blue 

 Gloxinia like flowers. 



This pretty little plant is very common here 

 covering all large moss-grown rocks, bears during the 

 rains dark-blue violet shaped flowers, 



Is very common and flowers annually August to 

 October. 



So far I have found this in the old Botanical 

 Gardens, in flower in September. 



A very common roadside weed on sunny or dry 

 aspects. 



In all the warmer valleys up to 4,000 feet ; verna- 

 cular *' Bansa" or " Pia-bansa." The leaves are 

 considered medicinal. The wood is burnt into 

 charcoal for gunpowder. 



