like the last species, but capsule larger, } in., seeds 
10-15, dull black with undulating lines radiating from the 
542 Plants of the Puniab. 
ProstRATE HerRss witH Opposite ExstipuLAts SimpLE LEAVES, 
PETALS NONE. 
Trianthema 
hydaspica, 
FIcoIpE. the centre, flowers separated or clustered. 
F. B. I. 1. 661. 
The Plains, 
Multan (Edgeworth), 
Orygia decumbens, 
FIcoIpEs. 
F.8. I. 11. 661. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Gisekia 
pharnaceoides, 
FIcoIpE®. 
iB. Ln. 664, 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Boerhaavia repens, 
NYCTAGINACER. 
Boast. 00. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Bewal, Kullar 
(Douie). 
Lahore, Koti. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Boerhaavia repanda, 
small to medium size, smooth, stems 6-18 in., triangu- 
lar ; leaves 3-1 in., also alternate, ovate with a broad tip, 
fleshy, entire, tipped with a rigid point, stalk 4 in. ; flowers 
4 in. diam., purplish-green in few-flowered loose terminal 
or leaf opposed clusters, with small lanceolate bracts at 
their divisions, sepals 5, ovate with dry thin edges, petals 
none, stamens 12 or more, staminodes many, small, styles 5, 
thread-like ; capsule > in. diam., round, papery, enclosed 
in the persistent sepals, cells 5, opening dorsally, seeds 
many, dull black, kidney-shaped, with many concentric 
raised lines. 
small, succulent, smooth, branches prostrate or ascend- 
ing ; leaves 3-13 in., oblong, prolonged into the stalk, fleshy, 
abounding in raphides ; flowers 2 in., greenish or purplish, 
in axillary dense clusters, sepals 5, oblong-oval with thin 
margins, petals none, stamens 5, dilated below ; fruit of 5, 
free, thin, carpels, one-seeded, seeds blackish, rounded on 
the back, almost kidney-shaped, covered with glandular 
dots. This plant, when fresh, is said to bea specific against 
tape worm. 
medium size, perennial, root spindle-shaped, branches 
6-24 in., creeping along the ground, or ascending, smooth 
or slightly velvety ; leaves $-2 in. linear, ovate-oblong or 
rounded, blunt or short-pointed, base rounded or heart- 
shaped, thick, usually white beneath, stalk often as long as 
the blade; flowers minute, reddish in head-like clusters 
forming long slender stalked branching racemes, calyx 
5-lobed, funnel-shaped, petals none, stamens 2-3 ; fruit $ in. 
long, shortly wedge-shaped, 5-ribbed, sticky all over, top 
rounded, 
see Climbing Plants, Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate 
Simple, 
