Plants of the Punjab. 157 
a 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite Exstieputate Simpue Leaves. 
Hoppea 
dichotoma, 
GENTIANACEA. 
FB. IT. iv. 100: 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Enicostema 
littorale, 
Chota kirayata. 
. GENTIANACES. 
BeBe avelol: 
The Plains to 
1,500 ft. 
Erythreea 
ramosissima, 
GENTIANACER. 
Pp letvs 100. 
The Plains, 
1-2,000 ft. 
Ludhiana, 
Hoshiarpur 
(Thomson). 
Baluchistan 
(C. B. Clarke). 
Erythrea 
Roxburghii, 
Erythrea Meyeri, 
Lear Marains ENTIre. 
PETALS UNITED. 
very small, annual, smooth, stem square, much 
branched ; leaves $ in. long, ovate, sessile; flowers 2 
in., white, in sessile 2-3-flowered dense or loose ehistens: 
calyx 4; in., bell-shaped, lobes 4, ovate, long-pointed, 
thin, marginal nerve green, corolla bulging on one side, 
shorter than the calyx, tube 4; in., lobes short, triangular, 
stamens 4, 1 perfect, 3 barren, in the throat of the corolla, 
style short, stigma hardly divided ; capsule nearly round, 
very small, seeds very many, minute, nearly black. 
small, annual, smooth, stem round or square, branch- 
ed, spaces between leaves short; leaves 2 by 4 in,, 
or smaller and nearly linear, ovate-lanceolate, sessile ; 
flowers tin. long, white or bluish in sessile axillary clusters, 
calyx ;4,m., deeply divided into 5 lobes, which are narrowly 
oblong and blunt, corolla funnel-shaped, tubular, tube 4 
in., lobes 5, 5 in., spreading, oblong with rounded ends, 
stamens 5, in the upper part of corolla tube, scales at the 
base, anthers oblong, short-pointed, within the tube, 
style short, linear, stigma round ; capsule 3-2 in., oblong 
with rounded ends, seeds many, nearly round, larger than 
those of the last species. This plant is bitter and used in 
place of quinine or chiretta. 
small, branched, very leafy ; leaves 14 by 2 in., sessile, 
stem leaves oblong, short-pointed or with rounded ends ; 
flowers % in., pink, in sessile bracteate clusters, calyx 4 
in., tubular, teeth 5, lanceolate or linear, with a promi- 
nent ridge, equal to the corolla tube, corolla tube 2 in., 
lobes 5, spreading, stamens 5, near the mouth of the corolla 
tube, short, linear, style linear, stigmas oblong; capsule 
3 In., oblong, nearly 2-celled, seeds very small. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Exstipulate, Simple. 
