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Plants of the Punjab. 
a TE ee ee a ae a on ir re 
Heres, EREcT, witH Opposite ExstipuLAtE Simpie Leaves. 
Hygrophila spinosa, 
Talmakhana, gokula 
kanta, gokshura. 
ACANTHACESS. 
F. B. I. iv. 408. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Lepidagathis 
purpuricaulis, 
ACANTHACES. 
Me Siv 519. 
The Plains. 
Hoshiarpur 
(Aitchison). 
Lepidagathis hyalina, 
ACANTHACE®. 
PrBeLiiv.-b21; 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
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Lear Maroins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR 
medium size to large, found in wet places, stout, 
hairy, stems in clusters; leaves 8-7 in. long, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, nearly sessile, 
covered with scattered white hairs; flowers 1 in. long, 
pale blue or purple to white in large dense hairy axillary 
clustered circles with 6 straight shoe spines’ 4-12" in, 
bracts 4-1 in., lanceolate, bracteoles $-3 in., narrow, calyx 
4-lobed, lobes 4-4 in. , lanceolate, npaes one largest, lower 
blunt, toothed or divided into two, corolla 1 in. long, 
upper lip 2-lobed, stamens as in the last species ; capsule 
1in., shorter than the calyx, 4-8-seeded. The plant is 
used as a diuretic in Southern India with great success. 
small to medium size, leafy, branches many, smooth 
or hairy, often purple ; leaves 1-5 in., lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, sometimes in unequal pairs, larger narrowed 
at both ends, smooth, smaller nearly ovate, somewhat 
velvety ; flowers + in., white with brown spots at the base 
of the lower lip, sessile, in axillary sessile solitary or clus- 
tered oblong hairy spikes, $-13 in. long, bracts 1 by } in., 
marked with longitudinal lines, lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 
late with a bristle point, bracteoles $ in., linear curved, 
calyx nearly divided to ks base into 5 segments, one seg- 
ment large, }-} by 4 in. broad, the others } in. linear, 
corolla + in., ‘tubular, ieegldonls dilated in the middle, 
2-lipped, upper lip erect, notched, lower 3-lobed, longer, 
stamens 4, in unequal pairs, anthers 2-celled, cells oblong 
blunt, stigma round ; capsule + in., 4-seeded, oblong, seeds 
flattened, hairs rise upon being wetted. 
medium size, perennial; leaves 38 by 1} in., ovate 
or plone: stalked, upper narrow, hanging down, stalk 
1 in. ; flowers white with brown spots at the base of the 
lower lip, crowded in oblong or ovoid, one-sided, terminal 
or axillary spikes $-14 in. long, bracts nearly $ in., lanceo. 
late, long-pointed with an abrupt point, bracteoles 4 in., 
linear-lanceolate with an abrupt point, calyx nearly divid- 
ed to the base in 5 segments, segments linear-lanceolate, 
1 in., with scattered hairs, outer segment larger ; corolla, 
stamens, style, capsule and seeds as in last species, 
