‘Plants of the Punjab. 151 
Heres, Erect, with Oprosite HxstipuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Ammannia 
multiflora, 
Epilobium 
angustifolium, 
Freneh Willow or 
Rosebay, 
ONAGRACEA. 
F. B. I. ii. 582. 
Himalaya, 
8-12,000 it. 
Epilobium 
latifolium, 
ONAGRACEA. 
BeBe 0583 
Himalaya, 
11-14,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Epilobium 
origanifolium, 
Rubia tibetioa, 
RUBIAOEA. 
F.-B.1..ii, 204. 
Himalaya, 
10-14,000 ft. 
Kulu (Hay). 
Lear MarGins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, 
Opposite, Exstipulate, 
Entire, Petals none. 
Simple, 
medium size, smooth; leaves 3-6 by # in., nearly 
sessile, short-pointed, margin even or minutely toothed ; 
flowers # in., rose purple, in spikes at the ends of branches, 
bracts narrow, soon falling off, calyx tube scarcely pro- 
duced above the ovary, covered with close white wool, 
linear, teeth 4, lanceolate, long-pointed, purplish, almost 
petal-like, petals 4, 4-8 in., ovate with a broad tip, stalked, 
stamens 8, on the ovary, bent on one side, 4 shorter, style 
cylindric, hairy above the base, stigmas 4, distinct, spread- 
ing; capsule linear, 4-celled, splitting from the apex, 
23-34 in., velvety, valves 4, recurved, seeds many, narrow- 
ly ovoid, smooth, crowned with a tuft (coma) of dirty 
yellow silky hairs. 
small, smooth, leaves 14-3 by }-? in., oblong, nar- 
rowed to both ends, margin even or minutely toothed, 
blunt or short-pointed, flowers on stalks in the axils of 
distant leaves, no bracts; for other characters see the 
last species. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, perennial, rough, root thick, woody, bundles 
of stems each 1 in. thick, stout, with glistening white 
bark, erect, annual shoots clustered together, simple or 
branching, nodes of the stems covered with thin bases 
of old leaves ; leaves 4-1 by 4-4 in., sessile, broadly ovate, 
round or lanceolate, often in a circle of 4 leaves, leathery, 
margins and midrib rough; flowers } in. diam., in axillary 
or terminal clusters, shorter than the leaves, or solitary 
on long axillary stocks, calyx tube ovoid or round, no teeth, 
corolla. bell-shaped, lobes 4-5, lanceolate, short-pointed, 
stamens 4-5, anthers round, style 2-branched, ovary 
Q-cellod ; fruit 4 in, diam., smooth, round or almost 2-lobed, 
seeds 2, small. 
