Plants of the Punjab. 178 
Hares, Erect, witH Opposite EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Striga lutea, 
SCROPHULARIACE. 
Peels ive 299; 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Dharmpur 
(Bomford). 
Striga euphrasioides, 
SCROPHULARIACEA, 
Emeba be tv. 2299; 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Chakwal (Douie). 
Sesamum indicum, 
Hygrophila | 
salicifolia, 
ACANTHACER. 
BY. hw: 407. 
The Plains. 
LEAF Manems ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR. 
small, annual, rough or hairy, slender, branched 
or not ; leaves 3-1 in. long, linear, sessile, upper alter- 
nate, sometimes reduced to floral bracts; flowers 4% in. 
long, yellow, sometimes white, scarlet or purple, sessile, 
solitary, axillary, forming terminal spikes, calyx tubular, 
10-rarely, 15-ribbed, 5-toothed, corolla variable in size, 
tube slender, twice as long as the calyx, bent in at 
the top, 2-lipped, upper lip usually short notched or 
deeply cut, lower divided into three, stamens 4 in unequal 
pairs, within the corolla, anthers one-celled, vertical, 
fixed at the back portion of the stamen behind the anther, 
sometimes pointed, style thickened above, stigma un- 
divided ; capsule nearly round, splitting through the cells, 
seeds very many, netted. 
small, slender to stout, branched, rough or cover- 
ed with stiff hairs, leaves }-2 in., often 1- to 2-toothed, 
linear, flowers 3-3? in. long, white, at distant intervals 
in a terminal spike, calyx } in., 15-ribbed, lobes as long 
as the tube, bell-or funnel-shaped in fruit, corolla 4-3 in., 
2 
tube velvety at the bend ; otherwise like the last species. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed, Corolla 2-lipped, Stamens Four. 
small to medium size, found in wet places, near- 
ly smooth ; leaves 2$ by $-3 in., lanceolate, smooth, nearly 
sessile, narrowed at both ends, marked in lines by rap- 
hides ; flowers 4-2 in., pale purple, sessile, in bracteate 
and bracteolate axillary circles, bracts }-3, ovate or oblong, 
round at the end, bracteoles %-4+ in., lanceolate, short- 
pointed, half as long as the calyx, calyx 4-4 in., divided 
half way down in flower, all the way down in fruit, lobes 
5, linear, covered with bristly hairs, corolla-tube dilated 
near the mouth, 2-lipped, upper lip erect, concave, notched 
or 2-lobed, lower broad, 3-lobed, stamens 4, in equal or 
unequal pairs, style long, hairy, stigma linear, undivided ; 
capsule 4-2 in., narrowly oblong, 20-28-seeded, seeds ovoid, 
flattened, white hairs spring up when wetted, 
