Plants of the Punjab. 407 
UNBRANCHED HERBS. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH OpposiTE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEaVEs. 
Monsonia 
heliotropioides, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate. 
Simple. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, with OpposiTE StipuLATE LoBEeD LEAVES. 
Alchemilia vulgaris, 
Lady’s Mantle, 
RosacE&. 
Ab Sti oU. 
Kashmir, 
8-9,000 ft. 
Moliugo nudicaulis, 
FIcoIpEz. 
F. B. I. ii. 664. 
The Plains. 
Polygonum 
islandicum, 
Elatostemma 
surculosum, 
URTIOBACH. 
15 Wpagl 5 Pel EA ae pa 
Himalaya, 
4-7,000 ft. 
Simla, on damp 
rocks (Collett). 
PETALS NONE. 
small to medium size, covered with silky hairs, root- 
stock perennial, creeping, stem 6-18 in., unbranched ; 
radical leaves 2-3 in. diam., circular heart-shaped, 7-9- 
lobed, basal lobes overlapping, leaf stalks 6-18 in., stipules 
united into a funnel-shaped tube with short broad spread- 
ing toothed lips ; flowers } in. diam., yellow-green, in loose 
or crowded flat-topped clusters, calyx 4-5-lobed, petals 
none, stamens 1-4, on the mouth of the calyx ; achenes 1-2, 
enclosed in the membranous calyx-tube. 
small, annual, smooth, slender, stems many, leafless, 
scapes rising from a tuft of radical leaves ; leaves 1-2 in., 
oblong, blade prolonged, tapering to the base, stipules soon 
falling off ; flowers green, in clusters on branching stalks, 
sepals 5, ; in., oblong or oval, with thin margins, point 
blunt, petals none, stamens 3 or 5, stigmas 8, very small ; 
capsule 3, in., round, many-seeded, seeds minute, black, 
netted, shining, a small process at the hilum. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Simpie. 
small, annual, stems 2-8 in., slender, tufted, weak ; 
leaves 4-1 in., lanceolate, sessile, few, lower entire, upper 
toothed towards the tip, each leaf with a small oblong one 
opposite, which is often deflexed, stipules minute, cysto- 
liths many ; flowers minute, green, one sexual, mtermixed 
with minute bractleoles crowded in axillary, fleshy heads 
*!, in. diam., saucer-like, bordered by a circle of bracts, 
male and female on the same or different plants, male, 
sepals 4-5, stamens 4-5, female, sepals 8, unequal, persist- 
ent, stigma of a sessile tuft of hairs ; achenes ovoid, flat- 
tened. 
