180 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, ERECT, WITH Opposite. EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Oxybaphus 
himalaicus, 
Punac, bhans. 
NYCTAGINACE. 
BY Beiivi708. 
Himalaya, 
6-9,000 ft. 
Kulu (Edgeworth). 
Boerhaavia elegans, 
Sant. 
NYCTAGINACES. 
BBE, rv./709. 
The Plains. 
Kahuta (Douie). 
Baluchistan. 
Cyathula tomentosa, 
AMARANTACE. 
PB? Lav. 122. 
Himalaya, 
9-6,500 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Cyathula ecapitata, 
AMARANTACE®. 
Be ob, 1.d¥e dome 
Himalaya, 
§-9,000 ft. 
Simla (@ollett). 
Lear Mareins ENtIire. 
PETALS NONE. 
large, glandular hairy, sticky, branched; leaves 
13-23 in., ovate, short-pointed, leaf stalk 3-1 in» long; 
flowers small, pink, solitary on long slender axillary stalks 
forming a loose cluster, one bract forming a_ 5-toothed 
cup, + in. long, surrounding the calyx, calyx pink, tube 
short-lobed, lobes soon falling off, stamens 4, united below, 
enclosed within the calyx tube; fruit + in. long, ovoid, 
rough, black. This plant is used for fodder. 
large, shrubby, much branched ; leaves 1-1} in. long, 
few, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, blunt, fleshy with 
a hoar-frostlike bloom; flowers minute, in very large 
two. or three times divided clusters on very long slender 
main and minor stalks, calyx funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, 
petals none, stamens 1-5, projecting; fruit 54, in. long, 
narrowly oblong with rounded ends, strongly ribbed, 
quite smooth. ‘The seeds are eaten. The leaves are used 
as a diuretic. 
large, felted or woolly, branches nearly 4-angled ; 
leaves 2-10 in. long, oblong, pointed at both ends, rarely 
round, shortly stalked, 4-} in.; flowers white, shining, 
in small clusters crowded in round heads forming ter- 
minal spikes, each cluster containing one or two perfect 
flowers and many imperfect ones consisting of hooked 
sepals, spikes 2-6 in. long, stalked, calyx 5-fid, segments 
narrowly lanceolate, 2 or all ending in hooked extremities, 
lengthening with age, stamens 5, alternate, with 5 fringed 
staminodes united below, style slender, stigma rounded ; 
fruit dry, bladder-shaped, 2-nerved, seed one, ovate, shin- 
ing. 
very like the last, only more slender and flowers col- 
lected in heads about one inch in diam. 
