Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erecr, with ALTERNATE ExstIpULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Swertia alternifolia, 
GENTIANACEA. 
F. B. Lav. 128. 
Himalaya, 
11-12,000 ft. 
The Chor (Collett). 
Heliotropium 
zeylanicum, 
BoRAGINACE A. 
F. B. I. iv. 148. 
The Plains. 
Heliotropium 
dasycarpum, 
BoRAGINACEAS. 
F, B. I. iv. 148. 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Peshawar 
(Stewart). 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Heliotropium 
Eichwaldi, 
Nilkattei, bithua. 
BoRAGINACER. 
F., B. I. iv. 149. 
The Plains. 
Kashmir, Srinagar, 
Baluchistan 
(Lace). 
Lear Maroins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
medium size to large, rootstock only perennial, 
stems angled, hollow, + in. thick ; leaves 5 by 2 in., radi- 
eal, long-stalked, stem leaves oblong-lanceolate, ’ stem- 
clasping ; flowers 1} in. diam., bright grey, sometimes 
said to be yellow, in branching racemes, sepals 5, 4 by 
in., ovate, short-pointed, toothed, corolla lobes 5, 2 by 
in., oblong, narrowed to the base, short-poimted, 2 
glandular depressions at the base of each lobe, long-fringed, 
ee 5, style short, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule 2-2 by - 
4 in., sessile, oblong, seed 4 in. diam., smooth. 
oe 
medium size to large, annual, roughly hairy ; leaves 
14 by 1 in, narrowly apeaiaerleriene sessile, nearly entire ; 
flowers } in. diam., white, sessile in long bractless one-sided 
spikes 2-6 in., often branching in twos, curled up as it 
lengthens ; flowers 1-2-ranked, calyx 5-lobed, lobes 5 
in.. ovate, short-pointed, corolla mae é in., wider above, 
minutely bristly without lobes 5, 5", in.,, spreading, long- 
pointed, stamens 5 on the corolla tube, short, style longer 
than the stigma, stigma short, oblong, very hairy, not 
protruding; fruit =, in., of 2 wrinkled pitted 2-seeded 
nutlets. 
small to medium size, perennial, woody, stiff, rough- 
ly hairy, leaves ? by 4 in., wedge-shaped at both ends, 
nearly entire, sessile, flowers + in., whitish in short few- 
flowered spikes, calyx lobes 4, in., oblong-lanceolate, 
corolla 4 in., cylindric, stamens longer than those of the 
last species, style short, stigma rough, fruit small, some- 
times silky ; for other characters see the last species. 
branching from the base, 
softly hairy, leaves $-14 in., ovate with a broad tip or 
oblong with rounded ends, silky, nearly entire, stalks 4-1 
in., flowers 4 in., in 2 ranks on dense bractless spikes, 
2 in. long, calyx lobes J, in., ovate-lanceolate, hairy, nar- 
row, not covering the fruit, corolla lobes slightly toothed, 
round, style short, nutlets jy in., not spreading, 
forming an ovoid 4-pointed mitre-like fruit with a small 
hole at the top; for other characters see the last species. 
The leaves are applied to the bites and stings of rabid 
animals, snakes and scorpions, to ulcers, and used for their 
emetic action. 
small, perennial, woody, 
small, 
