550 
Plants of the Punjab. 
ProstRaATE HerBs witH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Polygonum 
dumetorum, 
Rumex scutatus, 
POLYGONACER. 
tb. 4: v2 60; 
Himalaya, 
1-8,000 ft. 
Simla, in fields 
(Collett). 
Elatostemma sessile, 
URTICACES. 
F. B. I. v. 563. 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla, the Glen 
(Collett). 
PETALS NONE. 
see Climbing Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
medium size, perennial, stem creeping below, branched, 
branches slender ; leaves 1-24 by 3-2 in., broadly triangular, 
long-pointed, base sometimes forked, lobes narrow or almost 
linear, stipules tubular, not frimged ; flowers small, green 
often turning red, in small circular distant clusters, form- 
ing terminal branching racemes, often dense in fruit, calyx 
6-parted, stamens 6, fruiting, calyx-lobes circular, pink, 
not fringed, notched at both ends, styles 8, stigmas fring- 
ed; nut brown, sharply 3-angled, enclosed in 3 enlarged 
finely net veined fruiting sepals. 
root perennial, stems unbranched, 12-24 in. long, 
rooting towards the base, often bent at the joints, creep- 
ing ; leaves 6 by 3 in., ovate-lanceolate, sessile or nearly 
so, sides unequal, coarsely toothed, tip ending in a slender 
tail-like point, stipules lateral or intrapetiolar ; flowers 
green, minute, one sexual, mixed with minute bracteoles, 
on the surface of axillary fleshy saucer-like heads, 4-3 in. 
diam., sometimes 2 or 3 together, male flower sessile with 
bracts, calyx 4-5-parted, stamens 4-5, female flowers stalk- 
ed, no bracts, calyx 38-parted, lobes unequal, persistent 
stigma of a sessile tuft of hairs. 
ProstRATE HERBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE LoBED LEAVES. 
Geranium 
rotundifolium, 
Hydrocotyle 
javanica, 
UMBELLIFERZ. 
F. B. I. ii. 667. 
Himalaya, 
2-6,000 ft. 
Valley below Simla 
(Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 
small, perennial, growmg in wet places, stems pros- 
trate, rooting at the joints ; leaves 1-3 in across, circular, 
rough, bristly, deeply notched at the base, 7-lobed, round- 
toothed margin, long-stalked, stipules small, thin ; flowers 
yellow-green, minute, 80-40 in a round umbel, bracts none, 
calyx tecth none, petals 5, stamens 5; fruit orbicular or 
oblong, flattened, very small. 
