Plants of the Punjab. 425 
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Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH Opposite ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVEs, 
Plantago major, 
Greater plantain, 
Luhuriya, wafgol. 
PLANTAGINACER. 
Be Bal. ivs 10a: 
The Plains to 
10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Peshawar. 
Rawalpindi. 
Kashmir. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Plantago lanceolata, 
Rib-wort plantain, 
Baltanga. 
PLANTAGINACER. 
BBs be ivs-406. 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
Salt Range. 
Plantago tibetica, 
PLANTAGINACEA, 
i. Bet. iv. 706: 
Himalaya, 
4-11,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Plantago 
brachyphylla, 
PLANTAGINACER,. 
BOB Ave 0G: 
Himalaya, 
9-13,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, perennial, smooth or hairy, rootstock stout : 
leaves 2-5 in., erect, oblong or oblong-ovate, 8-7-ribbed, 
nearly entire or toothed, leaf stalks sometimes 4 in. long ; 
flowers small, green, crowded or scattered in long spikes, 
3-15 in. long, on short stalks, bracts equal in length to the 
calyx, calyx 4-fid, segments § in., smooth, keeled, corolla 
4-lobed, stamens 4, style thread-like ; capsule small, en- 
closed in the calyx, 2-celled, cells 4-8-seeded, seeds very. 
minute, black. This plant is used as an _ astringent 
in dysentery for which it is an excellent remedy. 
like the last species, but leaves are only shortly stalked, 
narrower, 3-5-ribbed, 1-2 in. long, axils woolly, spikes 
short, main flower stalks long, deeply furrowed, sepals 
bristly, corolla smooth, capsules 2-cells, only 1-2-seeded. 
This plant is used as an astringent. 
very like the last species, but the leaveg are not 80 
long, axils of leaves not woolly, spike slender, bracts oblong, 
blunt. : 
like the Plantago major, but smaller, and the seeds 
are only 1-2 in each cell and not angular. 
