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Plants of the Punjab. 
ProstRATE Herps with ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Portulaca oleracea, 
Indian purslane, 
Kulfa, lunak. 
PoRTULACES. 
BoBetl. 1. 246; 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Sargodha. 
Sida humilis, 
MALVACER. 
F. B. I. i. 828. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Koti. 
Corehorus 
Antichorus, 
Baphuli, kurand. 
TILIACEA. 
B25. 4. 7,898, 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Reinwardtia trigyna, 
Crotalaria prostata, 
Crotalaria humifusa, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
Beall, Ole 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
4-6,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, annual, smooth, succulent; leaves 4-14 in., 
flat, oblong-wedge-shaped or spoon-shaped, thick, pale, 
and glistening beneath, stalk very short, tip abruptly 
terminated or notched, stipules minute, thin, or none; 
flowers small, yellow, solitary or clustered, terminal with 
a circle of leaves, sepals 5, united below, petals 5, as long 
as the sepals, very delicate, soon falling off, stamens 8-12, 
style 8-5-fid ; capsule brittle, splitting transversely, seeds 
many, dark brown, kidney-shaped. This plant is used 
as a cooling, a demulcent, and a diuretic medicine. 
small, perennial, trailmg, with star-shaped hairs ; 
leaves 3-2 in., broadly ovate or nearly circular, heart- 
shaped, toothed, slightly hairy, stalks 1-2 in., stipules 
soon falling off; flowers } in. diam., pale yellow, axillary, 
solitary or in pairs, distant or in loose racemes, stalks joint- 
ed at or above the middle, calyx 5-angled, valvate, tubular 
below, segments triangular, acute, petals 5, free above, 
united below, longer than the calyx, broad, abruptly ter- 
minated, staminal tube dividing into many anther-bearing 
processes ; fruit enclosed in the persistent calyx, carpels 5, 
shortly pointed with 2 horns, one seed in each carpel. 
small, perennial, velvety with star-shaped hairs, root- 
stock woody, branches tortuous, interlacing, 6-7 in. long ; 
leaves 4-2 in. long, roundish, pleated, toothed, base 3-nerved, 
shortly stalked, stipules free ; flowers small, yellow, on 1-2- 
flowered short stout stalks, opposite to the leaves, sepals 
4-5, petals 4-5, usually shorter than the sepals, stamens 
many, style short, stigma shortly lobed ; capsule 1-1} in,, 
cylindric, 4-valved, beak entire, seeds many. This plant 
is used as a demulcent. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, perennial, hairy, stems slender, prostrate, 6-12 
in.; leave 4-1 in., circular-ovate, nearly sessile, lower 
surface densely red hairy, stipules small, awl-shaped ; 
flowers } in. long, yellow, in loose 3-6-flowered racemes on 
curved stalks 2-8 times as long as the leaves, calyx } in., 
2-lipped, densely silky, teeth 5, linear, very long, the two 
upper more or less united, petals hardly longer than the 
calyx, upper petal (standard) cirenlar notched, often with 
