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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, wirn AvrerNAte ExstrpULATE SIMPLE Luaves. 
Polygala 
persicaricefolia, 
PoLYGALACH. 
BB. 11.202, 
Himalaya, east of 
the Sutle), 
5-9,000 ft. 
Valleys below 
Simla (Collett). 
Dharmpur. 
Polygala erioptera, 
PoLYGALACER. 
BB: L1.-208: 
The Plains. 
Polygala chinensis, 
Polygala sibiriea, 
PoLYGALACE. 
F. B. I. 1. 205. 
Himalaya, 
1-6,000 ft. 
Cotyledon Oreades, 
CRASSULACE. 
Bb .n1.-416, 
Kashmir. 
Pir Panjal 
(Jacquemont), 
Marbul Pass 
(C, B. Clarke). 
Vernonia cinerea, 
Conyza viscidula, 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, annual, slender, much branched, slightly 
velvety, leaves 1-2 in., linear or lanceolate-oblong with 
rounded ends, nearly sessile, flaccid, bracts awl-shaped, 
stalks curved, racemes 1-2 in., slender, loose flowered, 
terminal and extra axillary, flowers pink, wing sepals 
yellowish-grey, capsule notched, ovate, minutely fringed, 
narrowly winged near the tip, seeds woolly with the 2 
appendages ; otherwise like the last species. 
like the last species, but the leaves 4-1 in., racemes 
axillary or extra-axillary, wing sepals oblong with a strong 
green midrib. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small to medium size, velvety, stems many, slender 
from a perennial stock, leaves $-2 in., circular or lanceo- 
late-oblong with rounded ends or linear, shining, and net- 
ted above, margins turned down, wing sepals oblong or 
ovate with a broad tip, capsule broadly winged, smooth, 
seeds hairy with 8 appendages; otherwise like the last 
species described above. 
very small, annual, fleshy, smooth, stems many, 
curved, branches leafy; leaves } in., radical, arranged 
in a rosette, narrow, lanceolate, bristle-pointed ; flowers 
small, white, nodding in small clusters at the top of 
branches, sepals }in., oblong, short-pointed, petals 5, united 
at the base, a little longer than the sepals, stamens 5, 
styles 5; carpels 5, tapering into the thread-like styles, 
seeds many, oblong, with rounded ends, covered with 
minute tubercles. 
FLOWERS MINUTE IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
T'oothed. 
