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Plants of the Punjab. 
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SHRUBS WITH OpposiTtn EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVHS. 
Petalidium 
barlerioides, 
ACANTHACER. 
Po Bit. 416. 
Himalaya, 
1-3,000 ft. 
Deedalacanthus 
nervosus, 
ACANTHACE. 
F. B. I. iv. 418. 
Himalaya, 
1-3,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
7Ecmanthera 
tomentosa, 
Patrang, banmaru. 
ACANTHACES. 
F, B. I. iv. 428. 
Himalaya, 
3-5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla, 
Subathu (Collett). 
Strobilanthes 
glutinosus, 
ACANTHACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 458. 
Himalaya, 
8-6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Strobilanthes 
Dalhousianus, 
AOANTHACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 460. 
Himalaya, 
6+8,000 ft. 
Simla, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, finely velvety, stems several, cylindric, bark 
peeling in long papery strips ; leaves 2-4 in. long, ovate, 
toothed, short- pointed ; flowers pale blue or white, tinged 
with yellow, solitary or in small clusters, bracts none, 
bracteoles 1 in. long, ovate, net veined, enclosing the lower 
part of the flowers, sepals 5, linear, corolla 14-12 in. long, 
tube cylindric, hairy within, corolla not 2-lipped, 5 
lobes, nearly equal, stamens 4; capsule 4 in., ovoid 
flattened, usually 2-seeded, seeds shaggy. 
medium size, roughly pubescent ; leaves 6 by 3 in., 
ovate, pointed; flowers deep blue, in short uninterrupt- 
ed crowded spikes forming clusters, bracts 4 in. long 
ovate, long-pointed, variegated green and white, concave, 
enclosing the lower part of the flower, corolla 14 in. long, 
tube cylindric, dilated near the top, corolla not 2-lipped, 
spreading, 5-lobed, stamens 2; capsule 4 in., solid, 
cylindric, seeds 4, finely hairy. 
small, stems hairy, grey or white ; leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., 
short-poited, shortly toothed, hairy above, white woolly 
beneath ; flowers come out at intervals of 4-5 years, pale 
blue or purple, sessile in small clusters along the spreading 
branches of a terminal raceme, bracts and bracteoles hairy, 
glandular, linear, equal to the calyx, corolla 1 in. long, 
tube cylindric, widened near the middle, lip } in. diam., 
lobes 5, rounded, stamens 4, style filiform, often divided ; 
capsule } in. long, linear, splitting to the base, seeded to the 
bottom, seeds 6-8, hairy when wetted. 
medium size, sticky, hairy ; leaves 3 by 14 in., ovate 
toothed, hairy on both sides; flowers pale blue on short 
spikes forming a round head or often the lowest flowers 
are separated, solitary in the axil of leaf-like bracts, upper 
ae 1-1 in., ovate, shorter than the calyx, bractecles 
4 in., oblong, calyx sticky, hairy, lobes linear, corolla 
2 in. long, tube lower half cylindric, upper dilated, lips 
spreading, lobes 5, stamens 4, style linear, -hardly bifid ; 
capsule ? in., oblong, sticky, velvety, seeds ovate, hairy. 
medium size, hairy ; leaves 3-6 by 14-2 in., rounded 
aut both ends, hairy, toothed ; flowers dark blue or purple 
in heads of three or very short spikes, bracts } in., orbicular, 
concave, smooth, whitish, bracteoles none, calyx slightly 
velvety, nearly smooth, corolla 14-2 in. long, tube yellowish, 
curved, gradually swollen from near the base, lip 4-3 in. 
diam., purple, lobes 5, rounded, stamens 4; capsule % in. 
long, oblong, velvety, seeds 4, ovate, silky. 
