150 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Ereot, with Oppositn ExstieputatH SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Hypericum 
perforatum, 
Common Si. John’s 
Wort, 
Bassant, dendlu. 
HYEPRICACER. 
HB i 2a. 
Himalaya, 
8-8,000 ft. 
Simla, in shady 
forest (Collett). 
Hypericum 
elodeoides, 
HyPpERICACEs. 
HB. Aa. 225, 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Simla, Narkanda, 
in shady forest 
(Collett). 
Vahlia viscosa, 
SAXIFRAGACEA, 
F. B. 1. ii. 899. 
The Plains. 
Ammannia 
pentandra, 
Ammannia 
baccifera, 
Ammannia 
salicifolia, 
Ammannia 
senegalensis, 
Lear Maroins Entire. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, perennial, stem 2-angled, lowest branches 
rooting ; leaves $ in. long, oblong or ovate, blunt, dotted 
with translucent glands, pale below with black dots, 
sessile ; flowers 1 in. diam., yellow, in terminal or axillary 
short-stalked clusters, sepals 5, 4 in. long, united at the 
base, linear, short-pointed, petals 5, persistent, with 
black glandular edges, stamens many, in 8 bundles, an- 
thers black-dotted, styles 8, as long as the stamens, 
ovary 3-celled ; capsule } in. long, ovoid, seeds many, 
small. This plant was used in Arabic medicine. A red 
dye can be obtained from the flowers. 
medium size, perennial, stems round, lowest branches 
rooting, leaves 1-1} in. long, ovate, blunt or lanceolate, 
short-pointed, base stem-clasping, margins black-dotted, 
flowers # in. diam., in clusters of branching racemes, 
sepals 5, $ in. long, narrowly lanceolate, black-dotted 
and streaked, margins with gland-tipped teeth, petals | 
5, persistent, black-dotted and streaked ; in other charac- 
ters like the last species. 
small, annual or biennial, velvety with sticky glands ; 
leaves 3-1 in. long, nearly sessile, oblong, narrowed at 
both ends, short-pointed ; flowers 4 in. long, white, nearly 
sessile, in pairs or solitary in nearly all the axils of the 
upper leaves, calyx tube united to ovary and above it, 
lobes 5, ovate and short-pointed, persistent in fruit, 
petals 5, $ in. long, ovate with a broad tip united to the 
ovary, stamens 5 and styles 2, both 4 in. long; capsule 
# in. diam., one celled, nearly round, splitting at the top 
between the styles, seeds minute, many, smooth. 
see Herbs, Hreet, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire, Petals none. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire, Petals none. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
Entire, Petals none. 
seo Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire, Petals none, 
