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Plants of the Punjab. 
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Heres, HrRectT, with ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Echinospermum 
barbatum, 
BoRAGINACE®. 
BEB. av. 163. 
Himalaya, 
7-12,000 ft. 
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Eritrichium strictum, 
BoraGINACES. 
Heb. Lv. 164. 
Himalaya, west of 
Sutlej, 7-15 
Kashmir. 
Eritrichium . 
basifixum, 
BorRAGINACE, 
BB. i: iv..465. 
Himalaya, 
18-15,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Rochelia stylaris, 
BoRAGINACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 166. 
The Plains above 
1,000 ft. 
Kashmir Valley. 
Bothriospermum 
tenellum, 
13.000 ft. 
Lear Marains EnTIR#&. 
PETALS UNITED. 
like the last species, but leaves oblong, }-2 in., ra- 
cemes longer, bracts smaller, usually none at the top o!. 
the racemes, calyx lobes ;', m., oblong, nutlets ;1,-}1n., 
forming a pyramid of which the nutlets can be separated, 
2 rows of hooked bristles on the margins. 
small, perennial, 
white silky, stiff; 
rootstock woody, stems many, 
leaves 14 by $ in., linear, lower stem 
leaves larger, hardly stalked, radical eae es stalked, 
withered when flowering; flowers } yin. diam., blue, on stalks 
1-1 in., in branched racemes, 1-3 in. , bracts minute in the 
upper part of the racemes, calyx lobes 5, oblong, corolla 
tube short, throat with 5. scales, lobes 5, blunt, Spree 
stamens 5 in corolla tube ; nutlets 4, erect ao int, pyra- 
midal, margins thin with the minute hooked ae ‘s which 
are united at their bases, apices of most nutlets divided, 
hooked. ° 
annual, stems one or two, leaves 2 by 4 in., broadly 
lanceolate, with long weak hairs, sessile, lower tufted, upper 
apart, flowers purplish blue, racemes 12 in., with many 
bracts, } in. long, nutlets ;!; in., thin, smooth; otherwise 
like the last species. 
small, annual, with long weak hairs pressed to the 
plant surface; leaves 1 by % in., narrowly oblong, pro- 
longed into the very short stalk ; flowers } by +o in., blue 
or white, on stalks bent down in fruit, in racemes 2 to 12 in. 
long when fruiting, bracts ae smaller upwards, calyx 
he 5, linear, 5/5 in., in fruit } in., corolla tube with or 
without scales, lobes 5, small, eee stamens 5 within 
the corolla tube, style much longer than the nutlets : 
nutlets 2, white, rough with minute processes. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, [xstipulate, Simple. 
