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Plants of the Punjab. 303 
Heres, Erect, wrvH ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Gastrocotyle 
hispida, 
BorAGINACER. 
KY. B. f. 1v. 168: 
The Plains at 
1,000 ft. 
Baluchistan. 
(C. B. Clarke). 
Lycopsis arvensis, 
BoRAGINACEA. 
Bed eiv. 168. 
Himalaya, 
3-8,000 ft. 
Near Peshawar. 
Kashmir. 
Nonnea pulla, 
BoRAGINACER. 
BOB iv. 169. 
The Plains. 
Mertensia elongata, 
BoRAGINACER. 
eectivy., 1 HO: 
Kashmir, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Luar Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, spreading with bristly hairs; leaves 1-2 in. 
oblong, lowest prolonged into the stalk; flowers small, 
solitary and shortly stalked or in small axillary racemes, 
calyx lobes 5, 4-4 in., coarsely bristly, corolla 1-5 in. 
diam., tube short, closed with scales, lobes 5, blunt, spread- 
ing, stamens 5 within the corolla tube ; nutlets 4, 3-4 
in., ovoid, ineurved, rouch, apex with 4 ridges. 
medium size, annual, bristly; leaves 2 by 1 in, 
oblong, short-pointed, upper stem-clasping, lower stalked ; 
flowers 4 in., white, less commonly blue, on stalks 1-5 in., 
in terminal racemes, bracts 4 in., lanceolate or lower leaf- 
like, calyx lobes 5, linear, bristly, § in., in fruit } in., 
corolla tube 4+ in., curved, lobes 5, nearly equal, 4 in., 
blunt, spreading, stamens 5, nearly at the bottom of the 
corolla tube ; nutlets 4, 3-4 m., ovoid, wrinkled. 
medium size, much branched, hairy and _ bristly ; 
leaves 2 by #4 in., oblong, short- oes upper nearly 
stem=clasping, lower stalked ; flowers { in., blackish-purple, 
on stalks 4-4 in., in racemes, dense- hie aech 2-5 in., bracts 
i in, lnc calyx }in., in fruit 4 in., nearly globular, 
enclosing the nutlets, lobes 5, long-pointed, corolla tube 
1 in., straight without scales at the mouth, lobes 5, 4 in., 
blunt, half-spreading, stamens 5, enclosed in the corolla 
tube ; nutlets 4, 4 in., curved inwards, ovoid, wrinkled in 
a network. 
small, perennial, rootstock stout, stems annual, 
hairy with the hairs laid against the stem and with broad 
bases ; leaves oblong, radical 2 by $in., long-stalked with 
the blade prolonged into the stalk, stem leaves 2 by 4 
in., sessile ; flowers } in., purplish blue on stiff nearly erect 
stalks 3 in. In racemes, many-flowe oe long- stalked, leng- 
ee in fruit to 34 in., calyx lobes 5, $1n., linear, in fruit 
1 in., corolla 4 in. n. diam., tube 4 in. long, lobes spreading, 
a little longer than the calyx, scales in the throat very 
small, stamens 5, included in the corolla tube, style thread- 
like, very long; nutlets 4, 4 in., ovoid, oblong, smooth, 
shghtly angular, white or pale, shining. 
