Plants of the Punjab. 587 
Prostrate Heres with Opposite EXsTiIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVE . 
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Veronica agrestis, 
Procumbent 
Speedwell, 
SCROPHULARIACEA, 
F. B. I. iv. 294. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
Rawalpindi, 
Murree (Douie). 
Khanki, 
Gujranwala 
District. 
Veronica persica, 
Buxbaum’s 
Speedwell, 
SCROPHULARIACER. 
FB. I. iv. 294. 
Himalaya, 
6-7,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Nelsonia campestris, 
Hygrophila 
polysperma, 
ACANTHACEA. 
F, B. I. iv. 406. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft., in wet 
places. 
Rungia repens, 
ACANTHACES. 
BB brea 49: 
The Plains. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, annual, almost velvety, branches 6-18 in., Shu 
many, leaves 4-1 in. diam., ovate, heart-shaped or cir- 
cular, coarsely round and sharp-toothed, shortly stalked, 
flowers 4-4 in. diam., blue or white on slender drooping 
stalks in the axils of and as long as the upper alternate 
leaves, forming terminal racemes, calyx lobes blunt, calyx 
+ in. diam,, notched, lobes 2, round or flattened, 1- many- 
seeded, seeds oblong or round, cup- shaped, with minute 
projections ; for other characters see the last species. 
like the last species, but is much larger in all its parts, 
flower stalks longer than the leaves, flowers larger, bright 
blue, lobes of the capsule broad, widely separating, capsule 
much broader than long. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, Entire. 
small, annual, 6-18 in., branches rooting; leaves 
4-14 in., narrowly oblong to ovate, narrowed into a short 
stalk, smooth, almost entire; flowers 4 in., pale blue or 
white, in terminal dense oblong or linear spikes, bracts 
4-4 in., broadly oblong narrowed to each end, overlapping, 
bracteoles } in., lanceolate, calyx tubular, 5-fid, hairy, 
teeth lmear, + in., corolla tube swollen at the apex, 
2-lipped, oblong, straight, stamens 2, style long, hairy ; 
capsule 4-4 in., linear or narrowly oblong, seeds 20-80, 
ovoid, flattened, white, hairy when wetted. 
small, perennial, much branched, branches rooting, 
4-angled, nearly smooth when crushed, has a scent of 
thyme ; leaves 2 by % in., oblong-lanceolate, nearly 
sessile ; flowers + in., white with pink spots, in dense axil- 
lary or terminal one-sided spikes, 2 by 4 in., the 2 leaves 
