846 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Erecr, with ALTERNATE HxsTipULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Platystemma 
violoides, 
Lobelia trialata, 
CAMPANULACES. 
Hab: Tay. 425. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Naldera (Collett). 
Caltha palustris, 
Acroglochin 
chenopodioides, 
Chenopodium album, 
Whiie Goose-foot, 
Bathu, lunak. 
CHENOPODIACH ©. 
Byibesl.i vs 8. 
The Plains to 
12,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett), 
Kashmir. 
Baluchistan (Lace), 
Chenopodium 
Botrys, 
Lear Mareins ToorHeEn. 
PETALS UNITED. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 
Toothed. 
STAMENS FIVE. 
small to medium size, annual, smooth, stem 3-angled, 
winged ; leaves }-1 in., ovate or lanceolate, sharply toothed, 
or round toothed towards the tip, base wedge-shaped, 
entire, almost sessile; flowers }-+ in., pale blue or white 
on 1-flowered, slender axillary stalks, calyx 5-toothed, 
teeth linear, short-pointed, corolla 2-lipped, upper lip 2-fid, 
lower 3-lobed, stamens 5, anthers united, tipped with 
bristles, stigma 2-lobed; capsule 4-4 in., 2-valved, seeds 
flattened, blunt. 
PETALS NONE. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
medium size to large, pale green or mealy-white, stem 
angled, often striped green, red, or purple ; leaves 1-2 in., 
when cultivated often 4-6 in., stalked, lower ovate or oblong, 
margins more or less grooved, toothed, or entire, angled 
or lobulate, upper usually narrow, entire ; flowers minute, 
green, sessile, clustered in short axillary simple or branching 
clusters often forming large terminal branching racemes. 
sepals 3-5, keeled, petals none, stamens 1-5, styles 2-8, 
seed vessels (utricles) membranous, contained in the per- 
sistent sepals, seeds smooth. This plant is grown as a rain 
crop, the seed is as nutritious as buck wheat, the leaves are 
eaten as a pot herb, 
see Herbs, Mreet, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, } 
