Plants of the Punjab. 275 
Herss, Ereci, with ALTERNATE ExsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Physorhyneus 
brahvicus, 
Chorispora tenella, 
CRUCIFERS. 
eRe: p66: 
The Salt Range, 
Kashmir, 5-6,000 ft. 
Cleome papillosa, 
CAPPARIDACEA. 
BaBet: 1.7168. 
The Plains, west of 
the Ravi. 
Karana Hills 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Cleome 
quinquenervis, 
CAPPARIDACE. 
HW Bed. 1. 168: 
The Plains, west of 
the Ravi. 
Linum 
usitatissimum, 
Flax, linseed, 
Alsi. 
LINACE. 
ye sage eats e: ut 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, annual, hairy or rough glandular, rarely 
smooth, much branched ; leaves oblong-lanceolate er 
broad, narrowed to the base, shortly stalked, lower leaves 
sometimes lobed; flowers small, purple, on short stalks 
in long bractless racemes, sepals 4, erect, lateral pouched 
below, petals 4, stamens as in the last species ; pod 14 
in., hardly constricted, ascending, curved, slender, cylin- 
dric, seeds many, 2-series. 
small to medium size, strongly scented, hairy, often 
glandular; leaves 3-14} in., ovate-heart-shaped, penni- 
nerved, blunt, with nipple-shaped projections and flat- 
tened stiff hairs, lower long-stalked, upper nearly sessile ; 
flowers very small, pinkish to dirty yellow in racemes 
lengthening in fruit, with oblong small bracts, sepals 4, 
spreading, petals 4, stamens 6, sessile, style short; cap- 
sule 1-11 in., nearly sessile, very slender, 2-valved, seeds 
many, kidney-shaped, granular. 
small to medium size, woody, stiff, sticky, strongly 
scented ; leaves 1 in. diam., nearly circular, blunt or short- 
pointed, base heart-shaped or rounded, stalks and edges 
elandular, softly velvety, palmately 5-nerved; flowers 
small in racemes, lengthened in fruit, bracts leafy, nearly 
sessile, sepals and petals as in the last species, stamens 4 
or 6; capsules 1-14 by } in., sharp at both ends, narrow- 
ly oblong, sessile, hairs short, stiff, with broad bases with 
soft black glandular hairs, seeds minute, smooth. 
medium size, annual, stem cylindric ; leaves narrow, 
nearly 8-nerved ; flowers 1 in. diam., blue, in broad terminal 
clusters, sepals 5, ovate, long-pointed, 3-nerved, margins 
white, without glands, petals 5, twisted, soon falling off, 
stamens 5, alternating with 5 small staminodes, united 
below, styles 5; capsule 5-celled, scarcely longer than 
the sepals, seeds 10, brown, flattened, polished. This 
plant is widely cultivated for its seeds, from which linseed ° 
oil (alsi ka tel) is extracted. In India it is not grown for 
the fibre, flax, from which in Europe linen is woven. 
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