Plants of the Punjab. 529 
ProstRATE Herps with Opposite ExstTipuLATE SIMPLE LEAVEs. 
Stel'aria aquatica, 
Water Starwort, 
CARYOPHYLLACE®. 
By Bele te 220: 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Narkanda, 
in wet places 
(Collett). 
Murree. 
Stellaria media, 
Common Chickweed, 
CARYOPHYLLACER., 
Be Be le 280% 
The Plains to 
14,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Stellaria latifolia, 
CARYOPHYLLACE®, 
HBr oo 2at. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Hattu. 
Stellaria longissima, 
CARYOPHYLLACEA. 
HE. Bek. 1282. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Hattu. 
Stellaria decumbens, 
var, polyantha, 
CARYOPHYLLACES. 
F. B. I. 4. 284. 
Kashmir, 
11-15,000 ft., in 
rocky and gravelly 
places. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
large, percnnial, velvety, stems 12-36 in., angular, 
trailing along the ground, angu’ar, brittle, branched ; 
leaves 1-2 in., heart-shaped, ovate, thin, short-pointed, 
sometimes bristly, lower leaves long-stalked ; flowers 4 
in. diam., white, in leafy axillary or terminal clusters, 
sepals 4 or 5, 4 in., enlarged in fruit, sticky, lanceolate, 
free to the base, petals the same number as the sepals, 
and 14 times as long, narrow, deeply 2-lobed, stamens 10, 
styles 5 ; capsule 1 in., ovoid, rather larger than the sepals, 
with five 2-fid valves, stalks turned down, curved at the 
tip, seeds many, round, rough with minute blunt pro- 
jections. 
like the last species, but stem with one line of hairs, 
petals shorter than the sepals, or none, flowers smaller 
than those of the last species, 4 in., stamens 3-10, styles 38, 
seeds brown, rough with minute sharp projections. 
like the last species, but stems shorter felted when 
young, then smooth, shining, lower leaves nearly round, 
abruptly pointed, upper lanceolate, all sessile, flowers 
1 in. diam., solitary, long-stalked, sepals 4, petals 4, twice 
as long as the sepals, stamens 8, styles 2, capsule much 
short<r than the scpals. 
like the last species, but leaves 3-1 in., narrowly ob- 
long or lanceolate, flowers solitary or in small clusters, 
sepals united at the base, petals as long as the sepals, 
styles 3, stamens 10. 
like the last species, but small, perennial, densely 
tufted, shining, stem stout, leaves 4-3 in., ovate- or lance- 
olate-awl-shaped, hairy or velvety, flowers white, minute, 
in sessile many-flowered clusters, sepals 5, petals 5, 
minute, capsule shorter than the sepals. 
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