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Plants of the Punjab. 
ProstRatE HERBS witH Opposite ExstipuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Glossostigma 
spathulatum, 
SCROPHULARIACE. 
EF. Bz. 1v. 288. 
The Plains. 
Limosella aquatica, 
Hemiphragma 
heterophyllum, 
SCROPHULARIACESR. 
F. B. I. iv. 289. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Hattu (Collett). 
Veronica Angallis, 
Veronica 
Beccabunga, 
Brooklime, 
SCROPHULARIACER, 
F, B, I. iv, 298, 
The Plains at 
1,500 to 6,000 ft., 
in wet places. 
Rawalpindi, 
in wet places, 
PETALS UNITED. 
very small, smooth, creeping, densely tufted, branches 
rooting ; leaves ;,-} m., narrowly spoon-shaped, tapering 
into a stalk; flowers minute, blue, axillary, so itary on 
slender stalks, shorter than the leaves, without bracteoles, 
calyx ,'; in. long, 3-lobed, bell-shaped, corolla tube shorter 
than the calyx, lobes 5, nearly equal, stamens 2; capsule 
equal to calyx, seeds small, ovoid. 
see Water Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, velvety, stem 12-24 in., creeping, very 
slender, loosely tufted ; leaves on the stem, 4-2 in. diam., 
circular-heart-shaped, or ovate, or kidney-shaped, almost 
sessile, thin, hairy on both sides, those on th° branches 
go-e In., needle-like, forming tufts or heads, stiff, short- 
pointed, face deeply grooved, back convex, bristly ; 
flowers 4 in. diam., pink, axillary, usually sessile in 
the tufts of the needle-like leaves, calyx lobes 5, narrow, 
corolla 4 in. diam., tube short, slender, lobes 5, rounded, 
spreading, nearly equal, stamens 4, on the base of the 
corolla, equal; fruit black, 4 in. diam., polished, ovoid, 
fleshy, seeds many, minute, ovoid, smooth. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire, Stamens 2. 
small, per:nnial, smooth or very slightly velvety, 
succulent, stem hollow, branches 6-18 in., spreading ; 
leaves 1-2 in., narrowed at both ends or oblong blunt round 
and sharp-toothed, base rounded, sessile or shortly stalk- 
ed ; flowers 4 in. diam., blue or pink in few- or many-flower- 
ed axillary racemes, 2-4 in., bracts usually shorter than 
the flower stalks, calyx divided deeply into 4-5 lobes, 
ovate, oblong, almost sharp-pointed, corolla wheel-shaped, 
lobes 4-5, spreading, stamens 2, protruding; capsule 2:- 
grooved, somewhat flattened laterally, swollen, round, 
seeds biconvex. This plant is used in Kashmir medicine § 
in Europe it was valued as an antiscorbutic and is now 
used locally as a styptic. 
