Plants of the Punjab. 828 
Heres, ERECT, with ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Chorispora tenella, 
Impatiens 
Balsamina, 
Balsam or 
Touch-me-not, 
Gulmendi, tuphar. 
GERANIACER. 
Beeb ale. 459% 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below 
Simla (Collett). 
Impatiens racemosa, 
Impatiens 
brachyeentra, 
Sedum Rhodiola, 
Sedum 
heterodontum, 
CRASSULACER. 
Hee win ALT 
Himalaya, 
8-14,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Sedum tibeticum, 
Lear Marains Tooruen. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Hxstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. : 
small to medium size, annual, succulent, velvety ; 
stems usually hollow, joints more or less swollen ; leaves 
14-23 in., narrowly lanceolate, stalked, narrowed to the 
base, deeply toothed, stalk glandular; flowers 4 in. 
long without the spur, pink or nearly white, soli- 
tary on axillary, usually clustered stalks, sepals 3, 
2 upper small, flat, usually green, the lower forming the 
lip, much larger, petal-like, more or less tubular, produced 
at the base in a hollow spur, $ in. long, curved, slender, 
cylindric, petals 8, upper broad, somewhat concave, tipped 
with a small green point, 2 lower smaller, forming wings, 
deeply 2-lobed, stamens 5 clasping the ovary, anthers 
round the 5-toothed sessile stigma ; capsule 4-$ in. oblong 
narrowed at both rounded ends, densely felted or woolly, 
bursting open when ripe, touched or not, by 5 valves 
which curl up and jerk away the many small rounded seeds. 
This plant is much cultivated for its beauty. It is emetic 
and purgative in its action. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, Tooth- 
ed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, Tooth- 
ed. 
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see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
small to medium size, rootstock perennial with a crown 
of scales, stems annual, leafy ; leaves 1-1} in. long, base 
ovate, deeply toothed, overlapping, base broad, sessile, 
heart-shaped or forked, margin white ; flowers small, pink, 
in terminal compound clusters, calyx 4-5-lobed, lobes 
narrow, oblong, petals 4-5, much longer than the calyx lobes, 
stamens 10-8, long protruding, styles short, 4-5 ; follicles 
4-5, seeds many, oblong with rounded ends. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
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