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Plants of the Punjab. 
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| Heres, Erect, with Opposite EXstIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES 
Halenia elliptica, 
GENTIANACES. 
F. B. L. iv. 180. 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Mashobra, 
Mahasu, in woods 
(Collett). 
Trichodesma 
indicum, 
Chota kupha, kallra 
buti, ratmandu, 
nila krav. 
BorAGINACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 153. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Nurpur, Kangra, 
Rawalpindi, Hazara, 
Choa Saidan Shah 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Orb: Clarke). 
Trichodesma 
africanum, 
BorAGINACE. 
FP. B. I. iv. 154. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Buchnera hispida, 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
ee to medium size, stems 4-sided, angles narrowly 
winged ; ee ; 
pee: es oe by - 4 In., ovate, blunt, sessile, 
ee eee etn hc eaves 1 by 3} in., short-pointed, lower 
often stalked ; flowers 4 in. diam., pale blue axillar 
and forming a loose terminal branching raceme cal ot 
nearly down to the base into 4 segments, } in een 
corolla bell-shaped, divided more than half Ss Pi a“ 
into 4 lobes, the pit at the base of sack \obane 
prolonged into a hollow spur 4-3 in. long, upturned, stame : 
4, joined to the base of the corolla, style oe chen i 
dric, stigma 2-lobed, small ; capsule 14 in., sessile a fs 
splitting nearly to the base, seeds 5, Saige os = ti 
yellow, fewer and larger than in most of the Swertias ee 
small, annual, rough with hairs on tubercles and 
elsewhere ; leaves 1-4 in., sessile, lanceolate tone 
ing, lower opposite, upper often alternate, short- oint © 
flowers 3-1 im. across, pale blue turning to ar nae 
white, solitary on drooping axillary ie ee: 
terminal racemes by the lessening number of floral lea a 
calyx 4 in., conical, divided into 5 lobes, ahich ance 
longed below into 5 recurved tails, lobes lanceolate enel 
long-pointed, covered with grey or white silly hare 
corolla tube 4 in., lobes 4 in., ovate, abruptly beneeine t 
a fine point, a yellow glandular spot at the base ofa 
stamens 5, short, woolly, anthers lanceolate jane 
form a woolly cone, tips bare, twisted, style heraniniel : 
divided, stigma small; fruit oblong with rounded pa 
4-ridged, separating into 4 rough nutlets, 4 in. - 
__ small, annual, very like the last, but rougher with 
‘ ye « , 
stiff hairs, leaves ovate-oblong, long stalked, racemes 
oener: ‘ Pe ¢ iwidine 17 ; 
gt coped lateral and dividing into two, flowers slightly 
smaller, nutlets with prominent margins fringed with 
barbed hairs. . | 
STAMENS FOUR. 
seo Herbs, Erect, Opposite, IExsti : 
Fonte pposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
