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Plants of the Punjab. 
Herps, Erect, With ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lithospermum 
officinale, 
BorRAGINACER. 
EBM hey Sai. 
Kashmir, 
5-8,000 t. 
Arnebia 
hispidissima, 
BorAGINACESR. 
H.B. Tei. 176. 
The Plains, Lahore. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Arnebia Griffithii, 
The Prophet’s 
flower, 
Panjakka, 
paghambr-i-phul. 
BoRAGINACER. 
Bab. Liv. 176. 
The Plains, 
west of the Jhelum. 
Pindigheb. 
Fatehganj 
(Douie). 
Campbellpur. 
Peshawar. 
Baluchistan 
(C. B. Clarke). 
Arnebia Thomsoni, 
BoRAGINACEA. 
BOS iv. 176. 
Spiti Valley, 
Ladakh. 
Arnebia tibetana, 
BorAGINACES. 
Be BAG av. 1G: 
Northern Kashmir, 
7-12,000 ft, 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
medium size to large, perennial, roughly hairy, leaves 
2 by Fin., oblong-lanceolate, roughly hairy, nerves some- 
what prominent, flowers } in., white turning yellowish, 
on stalks } in., in racemes 1-4 in., bracts leaflike, smaller 
upwards, nutlets shining white, smooth; otherwise like 
the last species. The seeds, lubis firmun, are used as a cure 
for stone. 
small, annual or biennial, very roughly hairy as the 
specific name implies ; leaves 2 by + in., lanceolate, hairs 
white from prominent bases; flowers 14 in., yellow, 
nearly sessile, on one-sided spikes, 2-4 in. long, bracts 
1.1 in., linear, calyx lobes 5, linear, 1 in., stamens 5, in 
some plants short, includedin the corolla tube, in others 
long, just protruding, style long or short, the inverse to 
the length of the stamens; nutlets 4, ,',-;); in., conical, 
sharply pointed, prominences on all sides. 
very like the last species, but a little larger, hairs 
softer, calyx lobes 4-3 in., corolla tube ?-1 by 4-3 in., lobes 
yellow with a brown spot at the base of each, fading during 
the day, nutlets much larger, more triangular and blunter, 
prominences on all sides. 
very like Arnebia hispidissima above, but often peren- 
nial, softer, leaves narrowly oblong, bracts oblong, blunt, 
longer than the calyx, nutlets larger and smoother. 
very like the last species 
but hairs more bristly, 
spikes longer, nutlets rougher, 
