Plants of the Punjab. 421 
Hmres, UNBRANCHED, WitH Opposite ExstipuLatE Simpte LEAvEs. 
. 
Androsace 
sempervivoides, 
PRIMULACES. 
eye sat Pare: his 
Kashmir, 
11,000 ft. 
Sind Valley 
(Collett). 
Erythreea 
Roxburghii, 
Charayatah. 
GENTIANACES. 
Pe Be ave 02: 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Erythrea Meyeri, 
GENTIANACEZ. 
BLBy Loivs 102: 
Kashmir, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Gentiana 
quadrifaria, 
Gentiana capitata, 
Gentiana venusta, 
Gentiana nubigena, 
GENTIANACEA. 
HOB lei. 116: 
Himalaya, 
16-18,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
PETALS UNITED. 
like the last species, but much smaller, bearing run- 
ners, plants forming rosettes $ in., nearly round, runners 
1-14 in., short, stout, naked ; leaves 4-4 in., ovate with a 
broad tip, spoon=shaped thicks, tip straight with short 
sharp point ; flowers pink, small, umbelled ona solitary 
scape 1-3 in., bracts linear-oblong, calyx broadly top- 
shaped, lobes 5, erect in fruit, corolla 5-lobed, salver- 
shaped, lobes ovate with a broad tip, tips rounded, stamens 
5, included in the tube; capsule 1-2-seeded, seeds larger, 
oblong, one side convex. 
small, annual or perennial ; leaves radical 1 by 4 in., 
ovate with a broad tip, many, persistent, stem leaves 
smaller, narrower ; flowers } in., pink, on long stalks, 4-4 
in., in the forks of widely branching clusters, calyx + in., 
tubular, teeth 5, lanceolate or linear, corolla tube. longer 
than the calyx, lobes 5, very small, spreading, stamens 5 
near the top of the corolla, short, linear, style linear, stigmas 
2; capsule oblong, equal to the calyx, nearly 2-valved, 
2-celled, seeds very small, net-veined. ‘The plant is very 
bitter and may be used as a tonic instead of chiretta.— 
like the last species, but radical leaves few, often 
2 or none, clusters not so much branched, corolla tube 
scarcely longer than the calyx, flowers white. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, Mar- 
gins Entire. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, Mar- 
gins Entire. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, annual or perennial ; leaves lower 24 by } in., 
stem leaves shorter, united at the base into a tube, oblong- 
linear ; flowers 14 by #2 in., 1 to 3 on each branch, 
calyx 4 in., teeth 5, 1 in., the space between two often 
folded, corolla funnel-shaped, lobes 5, $ in., short-pointed, 
stamens 5, stigmas 2; capsule 1 by 4 in., enclosed in the 
calyx, seeds very many, small. 
