Plants of the Punjab. | 551 
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ProstrRatH HERBS wiTH ALTERNATE STrPuLATE LoBED LEAVES. 
Hydrocotyle 
rotundifolia, 
UMBELLIFERZ. 
F. B. I. ii. 668, 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett), 
Althaea Ludwigii, 
MALVACES. 
Be Beles. S19; 
The Plains. 
Hibiscus surattensis, 
MALVACE. 
F. B. 1. i. 884. 
The Plains, Delhi 
(Royle). 
Polygonum 
sinuatum, 
PoLyGoNAcEz. 
F. B. I. v. 44. 
Himalaya,. 
8-10,500 ft. 
Kulu. 
Polygonum 
capitatum, 
Polygonum 
sagittatum, 
PoLYGONACE. 
EK. Bo Liye 4i 
Himalaya, 
7-8,000 ft. 
Kulu in rice fields. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
like the last species, but leaves 4-1 in., smooth, shin- 
ing, 5-7-lobed, umbels small, bracts few, small, flowers 
green-white, about 10 in an umbel. 
PETALS UNITED, 
small, annual, hairy, prostrate or ascending, leaves 
deeply 5-7-lobed, lobes 38-fid, stipules free, soon falling 
off ; flowers 4-2 in. diam., whitish, shortly stalked, few or 
tufted, calyx 5-lobed, with a circle of 6-9 bracteoles, petals 
5, twisted in bud, united to the staminal tube, staminal 
tube with many filaments, styles as many as_ the carpels, 
carpels many, 1-seeded, seeds small. 
small, stem weak, trailing, with soft hairs, scattered 
recurved prickles; leaves palmately 8-5-fid, roundish, 
long-stalked, lobes toothed, stipules leafy, broad ear- 
shaped ; flowers yellow with a dark centre, on stalks equal- 
ling the leaf stalks, bracteoles 5, linear with a spoon ap- 
pendage, calyx persistent, 5-cleft, petals 5, united at 
the base, with staminal tube; capsule hairy, ovoid, seeds 
downy. 
PETALS NONE. 
small, annual, stem creeping, smooth, branches short, 
erect, leafy ; leaves 4-1 in., pinnatifid, with lobes point- 
ing back, end lobe smallest, oblong, short-pointed, leaf 
stalk short with stem-clasping lobes, stipule short, tubu- 
lar ; flowers in solitary heads on axillary smooth stalks, 
bracts ovate, blunt, calyx 5-cleft, petals none, stamens 
7-8, styles 3, slender, united below; nut minute, opaque, 
rounded, 3-angled. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
stems 1-3 ft., prostrate or nearly erect, smooth, squares 
with mall, sharp, recurved prickles along the angles ; 
leaves 1-2 in., stalked, linea’-oblong, pointed, forked at 
the base, stipules tubular, very short, smooth, flowers pink, 
ina few small heads on slender distinctly prickly stalks, 
bracts oblong, blunt, smooth; nut 3-angled, enclosed in 
the calyx. 
