Plants of the Punjab. 521 
pee eo ee. 
Prostrate Heres with Opposire Sripunare Simpre Leaveg 
Portulaca 
quadrifida, 
Chounlayi, lunak, 
PortTUuLACER. 
FE. Bal: & 247. 
The Plains. 
Zygophyllum 
simplex, 
Aletha. 
ZYGOPHYLLACEA. 
Hobe lol, 424. 
Southern Sandy 
Plains. 
Multan (Hdgeworth). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Hedyotis hispida, 
Hedyotis stipulata, 
RUBIACER. 
BL Bot, ii, 63. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Ravi, 
3-8,000 ft. 
Valleys below 
Simla (Collett). 
Dalhousie. 
Oldenlandia 
corymbosa, 
PETALS UNUNITED, 
annual, succulent, widely spreading, stems threade 
like, rooting at the joints ; leaves 57s in., ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, flat, very shortly stalked, very fleshy, stipules 
formed by a rig of long white hairs ; flowers small, yellow 
solitary, terminal surrounded by a circle of 4 leaves calyx 
of 2 sepals united below, free part soon falling off em- 
bracing lower half of ovary, petals 4, goon falling 
off, stamens about 8, style thread-like, divided to the 
middle into 4; capsule brittle, splitting transversely 
seeds flattened, kidney-shaped, minutely studded. A 
common weed. It is used as a pot herb and sometimes 
cultivated, the flower opens only for 2 hourg at midday, 
annual, small, smooth, prostrate, slender, much branch- 
ed; leaves small, cylindric, fleshy, blunt, sessile stipules 
lanceolate, short-poimted ; flowers white or yellow with red 
or purple spots at the base, 1 or 2 on short stalks 
among the stipules, calyx 4-5-lobed, hooded, ovate with a 
broad tip, persistent or deciduous, overlapping, petals 
4-5-stalked, spoon-shaped, overlapping, twisted. stamens 
8-10, longer than the petals with a divided scale at the 
base ; capsule 4-5-angled, 5 cells containing 2-8 spindle- 
shaped smooth seeds, which are eaten by the nomad tribes 
of the Punjab. . 
PETALS UNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple, 
perennial, widely spreading, smooth, stemg 12-24 in 
rooting at the joints, cylindrical, smooth ; leaves 3-2 i 
ovate or lanceolate, thin, short-pointed, stalk 1-1 a 
stipules frmged deeply with long bristles ; flowers small, 
white, in short stalks forming closely crowded sessile or 
shortly stalked axillary or terminal clusters, 3-+ in. diam.; 
calyx lobes 4, shortly pointed, persistent, lanceolate re. 
curved, longer than the fruit, corolla funnel- or bell- 
shaped, lobes 4, ovate or linear, stamens 4 in the tube or 
throat of the corolla, style thread-like, stigma 2-lobed : 
fruit thin, broadly globose, seeds many, small, angular, 
pitted. : : 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple, Entire, 
