556 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heras, HRECT, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Abutilon graveolens, 
Barkanghi. 
MaLvAcEm. 
BB. f 1 827. 
The Plains. 
Gurgaon. 
Baluchistan 
(Masters). 
Abutilon Avicenne, 
American Jute, 
MALVACES. 
Be... 327. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Plumbago zeylanica, 
Chitrak. 
PLUMBAGINACE®. 
iB: 21.480: 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Giri and Sutlej 
Valleys (Collett). 
Koti. 
Choa Saidan Shah. 
Mator near Kahuta 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Lear Maroins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
large, perennial, fresh leaves smell unpleasantly, 
branches covered with velvety glands and hairs; leaves 
2-34 in., round-heart-shaped, sometimes lobed, abruptly 
long-pointed, velvety on both surfaces, leaf stalk almost 
as long as the blade, stipules linear, sickle-shaped, 
turned back, soon falling eff; flowers large, orange with 
dark centre, pink and turned back when old, on axillary 
and terminal stalks, as long as the leaf stalks, and 
jointed above the middle, calyx of 5 sepals, ovate, long- 
pointed, tubular below, densely velvety, petals 5, broadly 
heart-shaped, united together below and with the 
staminal-tube, staminal-tube dividing above into many 
filaments, styles 20 or more; fruit of 20 or more ecarpels 
rounded, hairy, about equal in length to the calyx, which 
is enlarged in fruit, not bristle-pointed, separating from the 
central column, each carpel 2 or more seeded, seeds kidney- 
shaped. ‘The flowers open in the evening; a fibre is ob- 
tained from the stem; the roots, leaves and seeds are 
used as a demulcent. 
medium size, annual, leafy, softly felted, leaves 3-4 
in., round-heart-shaped with a long point, leaf stalk 3 in. 
long, flowers yellow, scarcely longer than the sepals on 
solitary, axillary stalks 1 in. long, sepals nearly divided 
to the base, ovate, short-pointed, staminal tube very short, 
carpels 15-20, much longer than the sepals, oblong, hairy 
or velvety with 2 long spreading bristles, seeds soft with 
scattered hairs ; otherwise like the last species. This plant 
supplies an excellent fibre. 
large, perennial, stems several, rambling ; leaves 2-8 in., 
ovate, shert-pointed, smooth, abruptly narrowed into 
the stalk, leaf stalk 3 in., stem-clasping, stipules round, 
flat, soon falling off; flowers # in. long, bluish-white in 
bracteate, often branched, glandular spikes, 4-12 in. 
long, bracts + in., ovate, short-pointed, calyx 4-4 by 7; 
in., tubular, covered with stalked glands, 5-ribbed and 
toothed, teeth very short, corolla flat-topped, circular, tube 
Zin. long, lobes 5, 4 in., nearly equal, round, spreading, 
stamens 5, free from the corolla, opposite the lobes, dilated 
at the base, anthers protruded, style one, slender, with 5 
branches above; capsule thin, enclosed in the persistent 
calyx, opening transversely near the base, seed one. This 
plant is used as a vesicant, also as a sudorific, and as a 
poison. 
