Plants of the Punjab. 931 
HERBS, ERECT, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lear Marans Tootuen. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
Impatiens like the last species, but winged leaf stalks prolong- 
micranthemum, ed down the stem, flowers white with red and yellow 
GERANIACER. spots, much smaller, $+ in. long, spur also 4 in, 
Boi By Isi-48l. straight. 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Edgeworth). 
Hattu (Collett). 
Changlagalli (Dowie). 
Impatiens medium size, stem not winged, slender, smooth, 
brachycentra, branched, leaves 2-5 in., ovate-lanceolate, round-toothed, 
GERANIACE. teeth tipped with a glandular bristle, long-stalked, long- 
F. B. 1.1. 481. pointed, stipular glands often present, flowers } in. long, 
Himalaya, white, in racemes or umbel-like clusters in the axils of upper 
8-12,000 ft. leaves, lip boat-shaped, spur minute or none, capsule 
Murree (Fleming). —_ narrow, oblong, } in., nearly cylindric, tapering to a point ; 
otherwise like the rest of this genus. 
Psoralea corylifolia, medium size, branches annual, dotted with glands ; 
Babchi. leaves 1-8 in., roundish, with a widely round-toothed 
LEGUMINOS#. margin, firm, covered with black dots above and below ; 
Reba 103: flowers 1 in., yellow or white, tipped with purple, 10-80 
The Plains. crowded in long-stalked head-like clusters, calyx $ in., 
nearly sessile, bell-shaped, teeth 5, lanceolate, the lowest 
longest, corolla projecting a little beyond the calyx, lower 
petal keel-shaped, blunt, tip slightly incurved, stamens 
10, upper stamens united or not with the others in a tube, 
style long, thread-like, incurved ; pod nearly round, small 
smooth, black. This plant is used as a tonic, and as an 
internal and external medicine in leprosy. 
PETALS UNITED. 
Althea officinalis, large, perennial, downy, stem 24-86 in. ; leaves ovoid 
Marsh Mallow, simple or slightly lobed, toothed, stipules linear-awl shaped; 
Gul-khairo, kaira- flowers 1-2 in. diam., pink, in axillary clusters on a main 
ka-jhor. stalk, bracteo'es 6-9, joined at the base, linear-lanceolate, 
F Bad. aoadg: half the length of the sepals, sepals 5, petals 5, stamens 
Kashmir. many, united into a tube, united to the petals, styles thread. 
like; carpels many, seed one in each carpel. The leaveg 
are used as a healing application and the seeds in gravel, 
