Plants of the Punjab. 525 
. Prostrate Harss with Opposite Stiputats LLopED LEAvzs. 
Fagonia Bruguieri, 
Damahan, dhama. 
ZYGOPHYLLACER. 
By Bole 420. 
Peshawar 
(Falconer). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Geranium 
nepalense, 
Bhanda. 
GERANIACER. 
Peek tei 45); 
Himalaya, 
. §-9,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Geranium pusillum, 
Small-flowered 
Geranium, 
GERANIACEA. 
Fy Be Io 482. 
Kashmir 
(Falconer) 
Geranium 
rotundifolium, 
Round-leaved 
Geranium, 
GERANIACER. 
FB. be 452. 
Himalaya, 
6-9,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Peshawar, 
Hoshiarpur, 
Baluchistan. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
like Fagonia arabica but lower leaves 8-lobed, upper 
simple, branches prostrate, leaflets ovate, fleshy, young 
branches almost 4-angled, grooved, spines longer than the 
leaflets. This plant is used locally ag a febrifuge and tonic. 
perennial, velvety or softly hairy, not glandular 
stems 6-18 in., prostrate, spreading, branches rooting at 
the swollen joints, rising ; leaves 14-3 in. diam., circular, 
palmately 3-5-lobed, lobes equal or nearly so, irregularly 
lobed, toothed, stipules 4 in., narrowly lanceolate ; flowers 
$-% in., pale purple in pairs on axillary stalks, reflexed 
after flowering, sepals 5, free, ending in a bristle-like tip, 
almost as long as the petals, usually silky, petals 5, free, 
slightly notched, stalked, alternating with 5 glands, sta- 
mens 10, 5 long alternating with 5 short, united at the 
base, base of flower prolonged upwards in a persistent 
5-grooved, tapering column, styles 5, united to the column, 
stigmas linear, simple, terminal; capsule 5-lobed, 5-celled, 
cells 1-seeded, at the base of the column, when ripe the cells 
and the lower part of the styles separate from the column, 
the styles coiling up with a jerk, ejecting the seeds, seeds 
small, smooth. This plant is used as an astringent, the 
root supplies a red dye. 
annual, very slender, velvety, prostrate, much branch- 
ed, leafy, glandular above, leaves $-1 in. diam., round, 
kidney-shaped, deeply 5-9-lobed, lobes wedge-shaped, 8- 
lobed, stipules short, flowers } in., blue-purple, petals 
heart-shaped with a broad tip, hardly longer than the hard 
point on the straight margin of the sepal, bristly at the 
base, as are the stamens, capsule 4 in. long, seeds smooth ; 
for other characters see the last species. 
almost erect with very slender spreading branches, 
glandular-hairy, leaves }-14 in. diam., kidney-shaped, 
7-lobed, lobes broad, bluntly lobulate, leaf stalks very 
slender, flowers 4 in. diam., red, petals wedge-shaped, 
entire, larger than the calyx, fruit ¢ in. long, seeds deeply 
pitted ; for other characters see the last species. 
