Plants of the Punjab, 5638 
Prostrate Heres with ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Sisymbrium 
foliosum, 
Portulaca oleracea, 
Heylandia latebrosa, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
FOBT. 1 65; 
The Plains. 
Crotalaria prostrata, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
By Be ior, 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Dharmpur, 
Chenab Valley. 
Bupleurum 
jucundum, 
Hedera, Helix, 
Commelina 
nudiflora, 
CoMMELINACES. 
B. B. devi. 369. 
The Plains. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
gradually narrowing to a blunt point, seeds almost in two 
series at the base of the pod, one series towards the tip. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 
annual, silky, much branched; leaves }-# in., ovate- 
heart-shaped, unequal at the base, close set, almost sessile ; 
flowers 4-} in., yellow, solitary, nearly sessile in the axils 
of most of the leaves, calyx top-shaped, teeth 5, lanceolate, 
3 lowest deepest, corolla projecting far out of the calyx, 
standard large, round, wings smaller, ovate, with a broad 
tip, keel petals narrow, united behind, lessening into an 
incurved beak, stamens 10, united in a tube, slit on the top ; 
pod 4-} in. long, silky, oblong, 1-2 seeded. 
perennial, stems zigzag, trailing, covered with silky 
brown hairs, slender, 6-12 in. ; leaves 4-14 in. long, oblong- 
ovate, with a broad tip, sessile, blunt, pale, stipules none 
or small; flowers + in., yellow, in 2-4-flowered racemes, 
twice the length of the leaves, calyx ,-;4, in., densely red, 
hairy, teeth 5, linear long, petals 5, hardly longer than the 
calyx, standard steaked with red, stamens 10, all united 
in a tube with a slit along the upper side; pod 3 in. oblong, 
smooth, seeds 12-18, 
gee Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
perennial, succulent, stems slender, creeping, rooting 
at the nodes; leaves 14-3 by 4-2 in., lanceolate, nerves 
parallel, bases sheathing; flowers blue and white, in 
9 clusters, branches 1-3-flowered, stalk 4-2 in., emerging 
one at a time froma terminal complicate green spathe, 
ovate-lanceolate, 2-1 in., sepals 8, thin, 2 inner often united 
at ihe base, petals 8, longer one larger, white or pale blue, 
often stalked, stamens 8 perfect, 2-3 imperfect; capsule 
8-celled, 2 anterior cells 2-seeded, posterior one-seeded. 
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