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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, with ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Evolvulus alsinoides, 
Sankhpushpi. 
CONVOLVULACER. 
F. B. 1. iv. 220. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla. 
Syri (Collett). 
Kalka. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Breweria latifolia, 
Solanum coagulans, 
Solanum 
xanthocarpum, 
Solanum gracilipes, 
Kandiart. 
SoLANACER. 
Po. Law. 237. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Physalis minima, 
Tulati-pati, kaknaj. 
SOLANACE. 
F. B. I. iv. 288. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, perennial, spreading, usually prostrate, silky 
hairy more or less, white, yellow or rusty, annual, 
branches many ; leaves 4-1 in., rarely 1) by 3 in., linear 
or oblong, sessile or nearly so; flowers }-31in., blue or 
4 
white, 1-3 together, sessile or on minor stalks $ in. long, 
clustered on a main stalk, 4-14 in., bracts linear, hairy, 
calyx lobes 5, 3-4 in., lanceolate, hairy, corolla funnel- 
shaped, tube very short, barely 5-lobed, folding at the 
angles, stamens 5, attached near the bottom of the corolla 
tube, styles 2, branching into 2 linear stigmas; capsule 
4-1 in., round, 4-valved, seeds 4, smooth. This plant is 
used to strengthen the brain and memory, also as a tonic 
and febrifuge. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Petals United. 
gee Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
medium size, perennial, velvety with minute star- 
shaped hairs, stem prickly, prickles short, conical, partly 
curved back; leaves 14 in. diam., ovate or circular with 
a wavy edge, often nearly heart-shaped, not prickly ; 
flowers 2 in., sessile, on short axillary one-to three-flowered 
main stalks or on nearly terminal minor stalks, one to three 
together on very short lateral branches, calyx lobes 5, 
4 in., linear, in fruit 4 in., corolla tube short, deeply lobed, 
lobes 5, folded in bud, wheel-shaped, stamens 5, in corolla 
throat, tops meeting in a cone ; berry $1n., round, smooth, 
larger than the calyx lobes, seeds $in. diam., many, discoid, 
smooth. The fruit ig used to cure discharge from the ear, 
; medium size, annual, velvety, often spreading ; 
leaves 2 by 14 in., ovate, angular, short-pointed, stalk 
1 in.; flowers } in. diam., yellow or blue, single on axillary 
stalks, calyx 5-lobed, 4-4 in., lobes lanceolate in fruit, 
calyx 4-1 in., ovoid or round, 5-10 ribbed, loosely enclos- 
ing the fruit, corolla broadly bell-shaped, almost 5-lobed, 
folding at the angles, stamens 5; berry } in. diam., round, 
green, seeds -!; in. diam., very many, discoid, surface 
netted. The fruit is diuretic, purgative, and tonic. 
