Plants of the Punjab. 485 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE ExstTIpULATE SimpLE LEAVES. 
Onosma echioides, 
Ratanjot, laljart, 
koame. 
BoRAGINACES. 
Be bet. iv. 176: 
Kashmir, 
5-9,000 ft. 
Onosma Thomsoni, 
BoRAGINACEA. 
Rep. live 118: 
Kashmir, 
6,000 it. 
Banahal (Thomson). 
Onosma bracteatum, 
Gaozaban. 
BoraGINACEA. 
eB: balv. 179: 
Himalaya, 
5-9,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Verbasecum Thapsus, 
Great Muliein, 
SCROPHULARIACER. 
Hobe l.iv.-250; 
Himalaya, 
6-11,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Striga lutea, 
Striga euphrasioides, 
PETALS UNITED. 
small to medium size, biennial, hairy, stems 8-20 in., 
leaves oblong, stem leaves 24 by } in.; flowers 3 in., yellow, 
in one-sided, often forked, racemes, 1-6 in., bracts 4-1 in., 
leaf-like, calyx 5-lobed, lobes } in., narrowly oblong, in 
fruit 1 in. long sometimes, corolla } in. diam. at the top, 
smooth without, tubular, lobes 5, very short, stamens 5, 
attached near the middle of the corolla tube, linear, style 
longer than the stamens; nutlets 4, 4-4 m. long, stony, 
shining, white, smooth, often speckled. The root supplies 
a red dye for wool and is used for skin diseases, the leaves 
are used ag alteratives, the flowers as a cardiac tonic. 
like the last species, but perennial, leaves linear, white- 
woolly beneath, racemes small, bracts 4 in., linear, calyx 
not enlarged in fruit, nutlets smaller. 
like the lagt species, but stems much shorter, leaves 
much larger, lanceolate, rough above, silky white beneath, 
racemes short, round, calyx lobes enlarged in fruit to 1 in., 
flowers purple, nutlets rough. There is some doubt whether 
the gaozaban of the bazaars which comes from Persia is 
obtained from this plant. possibly the leaves are from 
one species and the flowers from another, it is much used 
in Indian medicine as a demulcent and alterative. 
large, densely covered with soft, yellow-grey star- 
shaped hairs, stem 38-6 ft., stout, winged with the pro- 
longed leaf-bases; leaves, radical and lower 4-12 in, 
stalked, ovate, upper 6-18 in., sessile, oblong-lanceolate ; 
flowers 3-1 in. diam., yellow, nearly sessile, crowded in 
terminal woolly spikes, bracts longer than the flowers, 
calyx 5-lobed, lobes overlapping, corolla concave, woolly 
outside, tube very short, lobes 5, spreading, nearly equal, 
broad, blunt, stamens 5, 3 short, hairy, 2 longer, smooth, 
style-top dilated, stigma simple; capsule ovoid, felted, 
seeds many, wrinkled, not winged. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Corolla 2-lipped, Stamens 4. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Corolla 2-lipped, Stamens 4. 
