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Plants of the Punjab. 
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ProsTRATE HERBS, WITH OPposITE STIPULATE CompouND LEAVES. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
than the calyx standard (upper petal) broadly ovate, 
spreading, keel (lower petals) imcurved, short-pointed. 
stamens 10, upper one free, others united, style incurved, 
tip hairy ; pod 4 in., enclosed in the calyx, seed one. The 
root is edible, the plant is said to be cultivated for the root ; 
it might be cultivated with advantage as it has a pleasant 
flavour like Arachis hypogea. 
Prostrate Herss witn Opposite ExsTipuLATE SIMPLE LEAvEs. 
Frankenia 
pulverulenta, 
FRANKENIACER. 
f. B: T. 1. 212, 
The Plains 
on sola land. 
Baluchistan. 
Gypsophila 
cerastiodies, 
CARYOPHYLLACEZ, 
Bi bnd. bel. 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Mashobra, Matiana 
Narkanda (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Cerastium trigynum, 
CARYOPHYLLACES. 
i ss i PR 
Himalaya, 
11-17,000 ft. 
Kulu, Kashmir. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, annual, slender, much branched, branches leafy, 
wiry, jointed, 6-18 in. long; leaves %-} in., ovate with a 
broad tip, broadly notched, grey beneath, very shortly 
stalked ; flowers minute, pink, solitary in the forks of 
the branches, calyx 4-6-fid, persistent, smooth, strongly 
ribbed, cylindric, petals 4-6, small, stalk with a scale, sta- 
mens 4 or more, free or united at the base, style slender 
stigma 2-5-lobed ; capsule enclosed in the persistent calyx, 
seeds many, oblong or ovoid. 
small, perennial, velvety, stems several, 4-8 in., slender, 
spreading ; leaves 4-2 in. by 4-$in., ovate with a broad 
tip or spoon-shaped, radical stalked, stem leaves sessile, 
all slightly bristly ; flowers 3-3 in., white with faint purple 
streaks, sessile or shortly stalked in branching clusters 
or rarely solitary in the forks, calyx } in., bell-shaped, 
velvety, 5-toothed, teeth blunt, with strong curved hairs, 
petals 5, spoon-shaped, notched, stalked, stamens 10, 
style; 2-8; capsule 4-valved, seeds few or many, broad, 
black, rough. 
small, perennial, tufted, stems :preading with alter- 
nating hairy lines or smooth ; leaves }-} in., oblong-lan- 
ceolate, «mooth, scattered, blunt, often curved down ; 
flowers 4 in. diam, white, in 1-3-flowered dividing clusters, 
bracts green with thin edges, sepals 5, rarely 4, linear- 
oblong, spreading, petals as many as the sepals, deeply 
2-fid, stamens 10, styles usually 3; capsule oylindric, seeda 
with 8 rows o! knobs. 
