Plants of the Punjab. 
Herps, Erect, with Aurernare Exsripunare Simpue Leaves. 
Aneilema 
nudiflorum, 
Aneilema 
Hamiltonianum, 
Cyanotis cristata, 
Cyanotis barbata. 
Juncus bufonius, 
Toad rush, 
JUNCACER. 
BB vi.8 92: 
The Plains to 
13,000 ft., 
in wet places. 
Polygala triphylla, 
Milkwort, 
PoLYGALACE®. 
BB has 201. 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Syree 
(Collett). 
Dharmpur. 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, annual, pale green, smooth, stems tufted, 
slender, branched from the base upwards; leaves bristle- 
like, few, channelled above, base sheathing, pale; flowers 
4-1 in. long, pale green in axillary or terminal clusters, 
sepals 8, with a thickened midrib, long-pointed with a 
broad thin margin, persistent, petals 3, like the sepals 
but without the midrib, stamens 6 or 3, half as long as 
the sepals, 6 in the open lateral flowers, 3 in the closed 
terminal flowers ; capsule ovoid with a broad top, blunt, 
pale, shorter than, and enclosed in the persistent sepals 
and petals, seeds very minute, finely net-veined, tips 
almost rounded. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, annual, slender, smooth; leaves 4-24 in, 
circular or oblong, contracted into the stalk, stalk often 
winged, membranous, smooth, blunt; flowers }1in., pink, 
in slender many-flowered terminal racemes 1$-2 in., bracts 
8, soon falling off, sepals 5, unequal 2 inner, petal-like, 
in colour equal to the petals, 3 outer smaller, green, falling 
off after flowering, petals 8, unequal, united at the base, 
2 upper small, the lowest (keel) longest, concave, 2-lobed 
at the tip, not crested at the tip with a frmged brush, 
stamens 8, united in two sets of 4.each, joined to the petals, 
style long, incurved; capsule 51-4 in., 2-celled, round, 
narrowly winged, membranous, seeds black, hairy, one 
in each cell, prolonged at the base by 2 minute append- 
ages. 
