582 
Plants of the Punjab. 
, 
Prostrate HERBS witn Opposite ExstipuLATE SimpLE LEAVES, 
Ammania 
peploides, 
LYTHRACES. 
SB. i a 566- 
The Plains in wet 
places. 
Ammania 
rotundifolia, 
LYTHRACER. 
HB. 1. 1-566, 
The Plains, in wet 
places. 
Circzea lutetiana, 
Limeum indicum, 
FIcoIpEs. 
EB. 1. 1. 664. 
The Plains. 
Tillza pentandara, 
Wahlenbergia 
gracilis, 
Galium 
rotundifolium, 
RuBIACEA. 
F. B. I. iii. 204, 
Himalaya, 
4-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett), 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, annual, stems decumbent or erect, often rooting, 
3-12 in., branches often squared ; leaves 4-3 in., narrow, 
tapering at both ends, almost sessile, nerves prominent 
beneath, entire; flowers small, pinkish, axillary, solitary, 
nearly sessile in the axils of reduced floral leaves, bracte- 
oles 2, lanceolate, minute, calyx bell-shaped, long, teeth 4, 
often pink, short-pointed, triangular in fruit, petals 4 or 
none, small, between the calyx, stamens 2-8, on the calyx 
tube; capsule oblong with rounded ends, longer than 
broad, thin, 2-valved, enclosed in the calyx, seeds many, 
pink, somewhat angular. 
like the last species, but more prostrate, forming 
patches, leaves circular, flowers sessile, bright pink in 
crowded terminal spikes, petals ovate with a broad tip, 
twice the length of the calyx teeth, capsule 4-valved. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
small to medium size, glandular, branches 8-18 in., 
much divided ; leaves }-4 in., round, prolonged into the short 
stalk ; flowers 4 in., green, in bracteate sessile clusters at 
the nodes, sepals 5, 4 in., ovate, green with thin margins, 
petals 3-5, ovate with a broad tip, stalked, upper margin 
frmged, much shorter than the sepals, stamens 6-7 ; fruit 
separating into 2 leathery roundish cocci, as long as the 
sepals, seeds kidney-shaped, longer than broad, flat- 
tened, smooth, whitish. 
PETALS UNITED. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Petals Ununited. 4 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 
Toothed. 
perennial, smooth or velvety, stems and branches 
trailmg on the ground; leaves 4-2 by 4-? in., ovate, or 
narrowed to each end, upper surface hairy or velvety, 
lower minutely prickly on the nerves and margins 3-nerved 
from the base; flowers minute, white tinged with green 
or yellow, in terminal branching racemes, longer than the 
leaves, calyx tube round or ovoid, corolla wheel-shaped, 
