Plants of the Punjab. 548 
Prostrate Herss with Opposite Exstipunate Simpin Leaves. 
Boerhaavia 
verticillata, 
Peperomia reflexa, 
PIPERACER. 
Bs Bole veo: 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
4-6,000 ft. 
Simla, below 
Annandale 
(Collett). 
PETALS NONE. 
see Climbing Plants, Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, 
Simple. 
small, perennial, velvety, stem 8-10 in., stout, densely 
branched, tufted, leafy, branches rooting at the joints, 
creeping over rocks and trees; leaves 4 in., broadly ovate, 
nearly sessile in circles of four; flowers minute, green, 
half sunk in the stem of the spikes, 3-1 in., stalked, erect, 
calyx none, stamens 2, stigma sessile minutely 2-lobed ; 
berries one-seeded, not splitting. 
PrRostRaTE HERBS wiTtH OppositE ExstipuLATE LoBED LEAVES. 
Tridax procumbens, 
CompositTm. 
BY Bs ham. 3th 
The Plains. 
Mazus surculosus- 
Alternanthera 
sessilis, 
AMARANTACES. 
BY Be hay tote 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla, 
in wet places 
(Collett), 
PETALS UNITED. 
medium size, perennial, hairy, weak,st raggling; 
leaves 1-2 in. long, ovate or lanceolate, pinnately divided, 
deeply irregularly toothed ; flowers minute in heads, 3 in. 
diem., on long solitary stalks, inner flowers tubular, outer 
ligulate, bracts of head few, outer short, broad, green, 
floor of head flat or convex, scales thin, shining, pappus 
hairs short or long, feathery, shining, style-arms hairy ; 
achenes top-shaped or oblong, silky, brown. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate Simple, 
PETALS NONE. 
small to medium size, nearly smooth, branching from 
the base ; leaves 1-3 in., ovate or narrowly oblong, blunt, 
rather fleshy, sometimes almost toothed ; flowers 4-4, in., 
white, in axillary, often clustered, heads 4-3 in. long, sepals 
5, unequal, smooth, stiff, anterior and 2 posterior flattened, 
2 lateral innermost, concave, petals none, stamens Be 
anthers 2-3; fruit is an utricle, dry, flattened, winged, 
enclosed by the persistent sepals, seed one, 
