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Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, ERECT, with ALTERNATE STIPULATE LOBED LEAVES. 
Spirza vestita, 
RosacEm. 
EB. 1. 1.328. 
Himalaya, 
7-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Hattu (Collett). 
Geum urbanum, 
Geum elatum, 
Lavatera 
kashmiriana, 
MALVACER. 
Pe 154..519. 
Kashmir. 
Hazara, 
7-8,000 ft. 
Malva verticillata, 
MALVACER. 
En B;.124. $20. 
The Plains to 
12,000 ft. 
Simla, Matiana 
(Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, shrubby, root perennial, stems velvety, 
very like Meadow Sweet, Spireea Ulmaria; leaves 2-12 
in., irregularly divided into lobes, lateral lobes few or 
many, sharply toothed, small, or one or two pairs 14 in. 
long, terminal lobe 2-6 in. diam., deeply cut into 8 
to 5 sharply-toothed, long-pointed segments, upper 
Surface smooth, lower white-felted, stipules half circular, 
large, sharply toothed, persistent ; flowers 1} in. diam., 
white, in large oblong much-branched terminal clusters, 
calyx 4-5-lobed, very small, lobes blunt, persistent, petals 
4-5, oblong-rounded, stamens many, styles many, nearly 
terminal, carpels many, ununited, woolly, 2-seeded. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
PETALS UNITED. 
stems covered with down, branching; leaves lower 
5-lobed, circular, heart-shaped at the base, round-toothed, 
smooth above, downy beneath, stalk as long as the blade, 
upper 38-5-lobed, lobes short-pointed, central longest, 
stipules linear-lanceolate ; flowers 8 in. diam., pink, on 
axillary stalks, bracteoles 8, united below, broadly ovate, 
shortly pointed, sepals 5, lanceolate, longer than the brac- 
teoles, petals 5, united below, wedge-shaped, deeply bifid, 
stamens united into a column, woolly, styles many ; carpels 
many, separating from the axis, kidney-shaped, smooth, 
shorter than the axis, seeds one in each carpel. 
large, annual or perennial, branched, downy ; leaves 
2-6 in. diam., nearly round, lobes 5-6, shallow, downy, 
stalks 6-7 in., stipules lanceolate, hairy ; flowers small, 
pale pink, crowded in nearly sessile axillary clusters, brac- 
teoles 3, ununited, linear, sepals 5, united below, triangu- 
lar-lanceolate, petals 5, united below, twice the length of 
the sepals, margin notched, stamens united into a tube, 
styles 10-12 ; carpels 10-12, enclosed in the enlarged calyx, 
netted on the sides, ribbed at the back, each carpel one- 
seeded. ‘This plant is sometimes used as a pot herb, 
