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Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH OpposiTE ExsTIPULATE SIMPLE LBAVES. 
Justicia Betonica, 
Justicia pubigera, 
Adhatoda Vasica, 
Bhekar, bansa, 
vasaka. 
ACANTHACES. 
B.A. iv. 540. 
The Plains to 
9,500 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Rhinacanthus 
communis, 
Palak-juhi. 
ACANTHACE®. 
Pp. d.iv. 541. 
The Plains, 
in gardens. 
Graptophyllum 
hortense, 
AOANTHACE. 
EF. B. 1. iv. 545. 
The Plains. 
Clerodendron 
serratum, 
Banbakri, barangi. 
VERBENAOCBA. 
FE. B. I. iv. 592. 
The Plains, east 
of the Sutlej river. 
PETALS UNITED. 
CoROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
see Herbs, Krect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
large, with a fetid smell, not eaten by goats ; leaves 
4-8 by 13-3 in., oblong, rounded at both ends, minutely 
velvety, stalk 1 in. ; flowers white in short dense bracteate 
spikes of 2-4 in. in length, bracts ? by 4 in., green, ovate, 
sessile, practeoles ? by + in., corolla 2-lipped, 14 in. long, 
lower lip with pink streaks, tube short, barrel-shaped, 
stamens 2; capsule ? in., velvety, 4-seeded, seeds + in. 
diam., warty. The leaves are used tocure bronchitis. 
medium size; leaves 8-4 by 3-14 in., rounded at 
both ends, margins wavy, stalk 4 in.; flowers white in 
large spreading terminal clusters, bracts and “bracteoles 
zz In., linear, corolla 1 by ;3 in., tube very long, 
narrow, cylindric, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3- 
lobed, stamens 2; capsule 4-seeded, seeds ovoid, flatten- 
ed, slighty warty. The leaves are used as a cure for 
Dhobies’ itch, rhinacanthin is like chrysophanie acid. 
medium size, smooth, often variegated ; leaves 44 by 
12 in., shortly stalked, oblong, narrowed at both ends, 
margin smooth ; flowers crimson in terminal ovate clusters, 
bracts and bracteoles narrow, very small, corolla tube 
curved, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, stamens 
2 large, 2 small (staminodes); capsule contracted into 
a long stalk, oblong, hard, seeds 2, flat, orbicular, pitted. 
hardly woody, stems annual from a woody rootstock, 
as itis usually burnt down in jungle fires; leaves 4-8 by 
14-23 in., sometimes in circles of three, oblong, toothed, 
smooth, shortly stalked ; flowers bluish-white in terminal 
branching racemes, when almost linear 6 by 1 in., when 
almost pyramidal 10 by 5 in., bracts }-14 in., often colo- 
ured, corolla tube 4-4 in., narrow, cylindric, mouth ob- 
lique, 2-lipped, lobes 4-4 in., oblong, stamens 4, far pro- 
truding ; drupe }in. diam., black, succulent, 1-4 stones, 
The root is used in Indian medicine as a febrifuge. 
