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Plants of the Punjab. ' 
Herss, Erect, with Opposite ExstTipuLaTE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Stellaria crispata, 
CARYOPHYLLACES. 
Ber. 1.229. 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
The Glen. 
Simla, in shady 
places (Collett). 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Stellaria paniculata, 
CARYOPHYLLACE®. 
F. B. 1.1. 229. 
Himalaya, 
7-9,000 ft. 
Fagu, Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Stellaria media, 
Stellaria bulbosa, 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
F, B. I. i. 231. 
Himalaya, 
6-9,000 ft. 
Jammu to Murree 
(Jacquemont). 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Stellaria glauca, 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
“Teal yl By By ap 
Himalaya, Lahul 
(Jaeschke). 
Lear Margins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
large, straggling, slightly velvety above, stems quad- 
rangular, shining with a line of fine hairs, joints often 
hairy ; leaves 3-8 in. long, lanceolate or oblong, rather 
leathery, tips slender, margin more or less crisped, sessile, 
long-pointed ; flowers small, white, in much branched 
clusters, terminal, sepals 4 in., 5, oblong-lanceolate, long- 
pointed, margin narrowly thin and dry, often sticky, 
petals 5, 2-fid, as long as or twice as long as the sepals, 
stamens 10, styles 3; capsule short, 3-celled, seeds one 
or two, granulated. ; 
medium size, very like the last species but the stem 
is reclining and the leaves are not crisped, flowers are 
smaller, petals notched, shorter than the sepals, capsule 
equal to the calyx, seeds wrinkled. 
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see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, smooth, rootstock creeping, bearing small 
round underground branches with buds or eyes, stem 
slender, erect, unbranched with a line of hairs; leaves 
2-6 pairs, 1-14 in. long, ovate with a broad tip or un- 
equally lanceolate, almost short-pointed, rather fleshy, 
sessile or narrowed into a stalk, margins rarely hairy ; 
flowers of two kinds, the lower on the plant from slender 
stalks being minute without petals bearimg ripe seeds, 
the nearly large flowers, } in. diam., rarely producing 
seed, sepals 4 or 5, green, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 
1-2 in., shorter than the petals, petals 4 or 5, white, ovate- 
oblong, shortly 2-lobed, stamens 10, with purple anthers, 
styles 2, thread-like ; capsule 8-angled, valves 4, divided 
to the base, seeds few, large, furnished with excres- 
cences on the surface. 
medium size, perennial, slender, quite smooth, stem 
quadrangular ; leaves 1-2 in. long, sessile, oblong or linear- 
lanceolate, long-pointed, base rounded, margins thickened ; 
flowers 4-3 in. diam., white, on nearly solitary terminal 
rather stout straight stalks, bracts thin, sepals 4 or 5, 
more or less united at the base, linear-oblong, long- or 
short-pointed, green, petals 4 or 5, broad, 2-lobed, twice 
