Plants of the Punjab. . > 241 
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Herss, Erect, with ALTERNATE STIPULATE LoBED L&EAvEs. 
Triumfetta 
rhomboidea, 
Corchorus 
acutangulus, 
Geranium pratense, 
Geranium collinum, 
Geranium palustre 
or grandiflorum, 
Geranium Tuberaria, 
Peganum Harmala, 
Harmal. 
ZAYGOPHYLLACES. 
Bri. 1) 486i 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Lourea vespertilionis, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
BB. wz 154; 
The Plains. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 
Toothed., 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 
Toothed, 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed, 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 
medium size, root perennial, stem and_ branches 
annual, bushy, smooth, pale green; leaves 2-8 in., much 
divided, lobes or segments linear, short-pointed, stipules 
bristle-like ; flowers 3-2 in. diam., white, solitary, sessile 
or stalked in the axils of branches, sepals 4-5, linear, short- 
pointed, persistent, usually longer than the petals, petals 
4-5, ob'ong, nearly equal, soon fall ng off, stamens 12-15, 
broad below, some without anthers, styles twisted, 2-8, 
keeled above; capsule 1-4 in. diam., depressed above, 
lobed, splitting into 3 valves, seeds many, angled. A red 
dye is obtained from the seeds and different parts of the 
plant are used in Indian medicine. The alkaloids Harma- 
line and Harmine are obtained from the seeds. 
small, annual, slender, stems finely downy; leaves 
3-1 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, divided into two equal linear 
lobes, apex of each broadly notched and bristle-tipped, 
rarely one leaflet on each side making a compound leaf, 
side leaflets smaller, obliquely triangular with the point 
inwards; flowers 4-2? in.. in simple or rarely branched 
racemes, 8-6 in., calyx } in., bell-shaped, teeth lanceolate, 
equal to the calyx tube, petals 5, standard broad, keel 
blunt, stamens 10, not all united, style thread-like, ineurv- 
ed; pod smooth, veined, joints 4-5, and each one-seeded, 
all included in the enlarged calyx. 
BR 
