Plants of the Punjab. 179 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite Exstipunate SimpLeE LEAvEs. 
Stellaria media, 
Ammannia 
pentandra, 
LYTHRACES. 
Boba. ie56s: 
The Plains, in moist 
places. 
Ammannia baccifera, 
Dadmari. 
LYTHRACER, ~ 
Be Be US W0.569; 
The Plains, in moist 
places. 
Ammannia 
salicifolia, 
LYTHRACER. 
BeBe 1. 569, 
The Plains. 
Ammannia 
senegalensis, 
LYTHRACES. 
BL 1..570. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Common in rice 
fields. 
Ammannia 
multiflora, 
LYTHRACER. 
He Bak 1. 710: 
The Plains. 
Lear Maroins ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, annual, smooth, much branched with many 
flowers; leaves 1 in. long, oblong with rounded ends, 
sessile, floral leaves bract-like, oblong, broad-based ; 
flowers small, solitary, sessile in the axils of leaves, brac- 
teoles awl-shaped, as long as the calyx, calyx teeth 10, 
5 of which are accessory, lanceolate, long-pointed, petals, 
if any, pink, 5, stamens 8, inserted about the middle of 
the calyx tube, style thread-like or short ; capsule round, 
depressed, 8-celled, seeds many, black, half round, hollowed 
on the flat side. 
small, annual, rarely large, smooth; leaves 2-5 in, 
long, narrow, but blunt-pointed, narrow at the base ; 
flowers small in dense clusters forming knots on the 
stem, bracts thread-like, shorter than the flower stalks, 
calyx widely bell-shaped, teeth 4, broadly triangular, 
accessory folds or teeth very small, petals none, or very 
minute, stamens and style as in the last species ; capsule 
like the last, but opening all round, about the middle, 
seeds like the last. The leaves are used for blistering. 
medium size, annual, smooth, branched, leaves 2 
by 4 in., lanceolate, rounded at the base, sessile ; other 
characters like the last species. 
medium size, annual, smooth, branches 4-angled ; 
leaves 1-2 in. long, lanceolate, sessile, nearly forked at the 
base, flowers minute in small shortly-stalked clusters, 
calyx bell-shaped, 4 short teeth, petals, if any, 4, pink, 
stamens 6 or 8; capsule 1, in. diam., round, larger than 
the calyx tube, red when ripe, seeds, as in the last 
species. 
very like the last species, but the flowers and capsule 
are smaller. 
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