568 
Plants of the Punjab, 
Prostrate Herss with ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Evolvulus alsinoides, 
Sankhpushpt. 
CoNVOLVULACE. 
BR By Tay... 220. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Kalka. 
Baluchi-tan 
(Stocks). 
Wahlenbergia 
gracilis, 
Campanula 
argyrotricha, 
CAMPANULACER. 
F. B. I. iii. 441. 
Himalaya, 
8-11,000 ft. 
Hattu (Collett). 
Common on rocks. 
Androsace 
sempervivoides, 
Androsace 
lanuginosa, 
Lysimachia 
chenopodioides, 
Lysimachia 
alternifolia, 
PRIMULACER. 
F. B. I. iii. 504. 
Himalaya, 
2-6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Samolus Valerandi, 
PETALS UNITED. 
hairy, annual branches 4-12 in., 
many, wiry: leaves 4-3 in., lanceolate or ovate, entire, 
sessile or so; flowers 3-4 in., pale blue or white, solitary 
or 2 or 3 together in a terminal raceme, bracts small, 
linear, persistent, hairy, sepals 4-2 in., lanceolate, hairy, 
corolla widely funnel-shaped, tube very short, obscurely 
5-lobed, folding at the angles, stamens 5, rising from the 
base of the corolla, styles 2, ending in 2 linear stigmas ; 
capsule 2-celled, round, seeds 4, smooth. This plant is 
used as a tonic and febrifuge. Muhammadans think that 
it has an especial action on the brain and memory. 
small, perennial, 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
annual, covered with flat-lymg, needle-like hairs, 
stems many, 4-8 in., weak, curved ; leaves $ by 4in., ovate, 
entire or toothed, thin ; flowers $ by 4 in., blue, long-stalked, 
solitary or in racemes, calyx teeth 5, }-} in., oblong, corolla. 
bell-shaped, 5-fid, slightly hairy without, stamens 5, free ; 
capsule 4} in. diam., base rounded, seeds minute, little 
flattened. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Opposite, Exstipulate, Pimple, 
Petals United. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
small, smooth, branches 2-8 in., prostrate, leafy ; 
leaves 1-4 in., sessile or stalked, oblong-Janceolate or 
ovate, short- pointed ; flowers yellow, solitary, axillary, 
stalks slender, as long as the leaves, calyx lobes lanceolate, 
longer than the corolla, oland- -dotted, corolla + in. diam.,. 
wheel-shaped, stamens 5, united at the base ; capsule small, ; 
round, splitting from the top by 5 valves, seeds many, 
minute. 
see 
Entire. 
Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
