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Piants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Erect, with Orrosite Exstiputate SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Barleria cristata, 
Tadrelu, bansa siyah. 
ACANTHACEA., 
i, Be 1. 488. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Hazara (Douie). 
Martynia diandra, 
Nelsonia campestris, 
ACANTHACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 894. 
The Plains to 
4 000 it. 
-« ygrophila 
polysperma, 
Andrographis 
echioides, 
ACANTHACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 505. 
The Plains. 
Lear Maroins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMENS TWO. 
large, hairy, branching; leaves 2-4 by 1 in., 
shortly stalked, ovate-lanceolate, short-pointed ; flowers 
1j-13$ in. long, purplish blue or white, in short crowded 
head-like, nearly sessile, axillary spikes, bracts none, 
bracteoles 4- in., linear-lanceolate, toothed, sepals 4 in 
2 pairs, outer sepals ? in., toothed, nearly spinous, corolla 
14-14 in. long, 5-lobed, lobes 4 in., ovate, tube funnel- 
shaped, stamens 2, 2 aborted much smaller, style long; 
capsule $ in., oblong with a short point, seeds 4 or less, 
silky. The seeds are supposed to cure snake-bite, the 
leaves and roots to reduce swelling. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS TWO. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
small, annual, woolly, with trailing flower stems 
1-3 ft. long; leaves of the main stem 4-8 in. long, oblong 
with rounded ends, stalked, flowering stem leaves nearly 
sessile, 4-2 in.; flowers } in., purple or white, in crowded 
ovate or cylindric mostly sessile spikes 4-2 in. long, ter- 
minal on lateral branches, bracts é-} in., ovate, blunt, 
woolly with glands, green, calyx $ in., green, marked with 
longitudinal lines, hairy or nearly papery, corolla % in., tube 
slender, 2-lipped, lobes 5, blunt, spreading, stamens 2, 
attached above the middle of the tube, style 2-lobed ; 
capsule }-4 in., oblong, short-pointed, seeds 8-12, yellow- 
ish with brown granular marks, roundly oblong with 
rounded ends. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
smull to medium size, annual, velvety and with 
spreading white hairs; leaves 24 by 1in., oblong, blunt, 
sessile, base narrowed ; flowers 4-4 in., pink or white with 
purple, in dense hairy sticky axillary racemes about the 
length of the leaves on very short flower stalks, bracts 
small, bracteoles minute or none, calyx deeply 5-lobed, 
lobes 4-1 in., linear, in fruit sometimes } in., corolla }-} in., 
tubular, 2-lipped, white or pink with dark purple lower 
lip, velvety, stamens 2, filaments hairy, anthers protruding, 
