Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, EReotT, with Opposite ExsTipULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Asperula 
brachyantha, 
RUBIACE. 
F. B. I. in. 209. 
Himalaya, Kashmir, 
7-12,000 ft. 
Valerianella 
dentata, 
Valerienalla 
Szovitziana, 
Seabiosa Olivieri, 
Seabiosa speciosa, 
Spilanthes Acmella, 
Anagallis arvensis, 
Pimpernel, 
Jonkmart. 
PRIMULACEA. 
F, B. I. iti. 506. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla in fields 
(Collett). 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Cynanchum 
Vineetoxicum, 
ASOLHPIADAOH/. 
F, B. L. iv. 22. 
Himalaya, 
7-11,000 ft. 
Shali, Sangri, 
Patarnala (Collett). 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
_ very like the last species, but with shorter leaves 
in pairs, shorter blunter bracts, and longer woolly corolla, 
flowers more in heads. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Hrect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simpl 
Toothed. : oe 
small, annual, slender, branches square, growing 
from the base ; leaves $-14 in., ovate or lanceolate, short- 
pointed, dotted with glands; flowers bright blue, rarely 
searlet, $-4 in. diam., open in sunlight on solitary axil- 
lary slender stalks, longer than the leaves, erect in flower, 
bent down in fruit, calyx segments 5, narrow lanceolate, 
long-pointed, nearly as long as the corolla, corolla wheel- 
like, segments 5, with a few hairs, stamens 5, very hairy, 
ovary one-celled, style thread-like ; capsule size of a small 
pea, round, opening by a circular slit round the middle, 
seeds many, minute, 3-angled. This plant is used by In- 
dians to cure cerebral diseases. 
small, perennial, velvety or smooth, juice milky ; 
leaves 2 by 1} in., broadly ovate, shortly stalked, point- 
ed ; flowers 4 in, diam., yellow, in sessile or stalked branch- 
ing racemes or flat clusters, axillary, calyx segments 5 
corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5, smooth, a ring of 5 ere 
triangular oblong or rounded scales (corona) united to the 
staminal tube, stamens 5, united, flattened, anthers 2- 
celled, projecting over the stigmas, forming a 5-angled disk 
carpels 2; follicles 2-4 in. long, smooth, slender, tapering, 
seods many, flattened, winged, and crowned with a brush 
of fine hairs. 
