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Plants of the Punjab. ah ~ 
Herss, Erect, with Oppositr ExstreuLtatE SIMPLE LEAVEs. 
Leuc ashyssopifolia, 
LABIATA. 
Boab Le ry. OU. 
The Plains at the 
foot of the 
Himalaya 
to 3,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Leucas aspera, 
Chota-hal-kzsa. 
LABIATA. 
F. B. I. iv. 690. 
The Plains. 
Silene apetala, 
JARYOPHYLLACE®. 
3; 2.1. 218. 
The Plains. 
Peshawar (Vicary, 
Stewart). 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR. 
OUTER PAIR LONGEST. 
small, perennial, hairy, rootstock stout, woody, 
branches many ; leaves 1-24 by 4 in., linear, blunt, often 
stiff, margins turned in ; flowers # in. long, white, in small 
axillary and terminal circular clusters, 3-? in. diam., 
bracts few, slender, awl-shaped, calyx + in., an inverted 
cone, smooth, mouth wide, abruptly cut off, smooth, 
teeth 10,.very minute, erect, corolla tube cylindric, within 
the calyx, 2-lipped, upper lip erect, hood-like, very hairy, 
lower much longer, 3-lobed, mid-lobe the largest, not tooth- 
ed, stamens 4, in unequal pairs, under the upper lip, outer 
or anterior pair longer, style awl-shaped, undivided ; 
nutlets 4, ovoid, blunt, 3-cornered. 
small, annual, stem stout, hairy or bristly, much 
branched ; leaves 1-3 in., linear or oblong, sometimes larger 
and 2 in. broad, also minutely toothed ; flowers 2-1 in., 
white, in terminal and axillary clustered circles, often 1 
in. diam., hairy, bracts long, linear and thread-like, calyx 
4-2 im., tubular, curved, smooth below, green, rough, 
ribbed above, teeth 10, short, triangular, upper lp pro- 
duced ; corolla, stamens, style and nutlets as in the last 
species. ‘T'he plant is fragrant and used as a pot herb, 
in chronic skin diseases and painful swellings the juice 
is useful, 
PETALS NONE. 
medium size, annual, stem branched or not, grey= 
velvety ; leaves 1-14 in., linear-oblong, long-pointed ; 
flowers }-4 in., long, green (as the petals, if present, are 
enclosed within the green calyx), in irregular clusters 
in one-sided racemes, bracts sharp-pointed, calyx 4-4 
in., bell-shaped base, a reversed cone with 5 short teeth, 
and 10 green hairy ridges, petals none or if any, minute, 
red, stamens 10, styles 3 (rarely 5) ; capsule round, shortly 
stalked, 3-6-valved, seeds flat, grooved with a double cor- 
rugated margin, 
