Plants of the Punjab. 565 
Prostrate HERBS witH ALTERNATE EXXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. | 
Polygala chinensis, 
Common Indian 
Milkwort, 
Meradu. 
PoLYGALACEA. 
FH; BiL. 1. 204. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Simla, in valleys 
(Collett). 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, annual, stout, leafy, stems usually lying along 
the ground, 3-10 in. long ; leaves $-2 in. long, round-oblong 
to narrow-linear, thick, leathery, stalks very short ; flowers 
1-1 in., long, yellow, straight or drooping, in short crowded 
axillary racemes, bracts 3, sepals 5, unequal, outer sepals 
ovate, small, green, 2 inner (wings) very oblique, much 
larger, short-pointed, yellow, finely vemed, petals 3, un- 
equal, united at the base, 2 upper small, lowest (keel) 
longest, concave, tip lobed, crested with a finely divided 
fringe, stamens 8, united in 2 sets of 4 each, joined 
to the petals, style long, incurved ; capsule ovate, notched, 
fringed, narrowly winged, 2-celled, enclosed in the calyx, 
seeds appendaged, one in each cell. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Filago germanica, 
Anaphalis cuneifolia, 
Anaphalis contorta, 
Lasiopogon lanatum, 
CoMPosITm. 
Be Bisliane 287. 
The Plains west of 
the Indus. 
Peshawar. 
Gnaphalium 
pulvinatum, 
CoMPOSIT#. 
F. B. 1.ifi. 289. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Petals United. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
minute, annual, densely woolly, much _ b:anched, 
branches from the root filiform, lying flat on the ground, 
whole plant 1-2 in. diam., looks like a cluster of woolly 
balls, leaves and flowers hidden in the wool ; leaves ;1,-} in., 
linear-oblong or spoon-shaped ; flowers very minute in 
heads, round, woolly clusters surrounded by the floral 
leaves, bracts of heads linear, blunt, thin, floor of head 
small, naked, pappus feathery. 
small, annual, woolly, branches many, spreading from 
the root, lying on the ground ; leaves small, spoon-shaped, 
narrowed into a short stalk; flowers yellow, minute, in 
heads -4, in. diam., buried in the wool in the axils of crowded 
terminal leaves, bracts of heads linear, slender, recurved, 
green with sharp transparent tips, corollas outer 3-4-tooth- 
ed, inner 5-toothed ; achenes slender, oblong, pappus hairy 
in one series, soon falling off, 
