Plants of the Punjab,: 563 
Prostrate Herps with ALTERNATE EXxstTiIPpULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Goldenia 
precumbens, 
Tripungkha. 
BoRAGINACE®. 
PeBal iv.i44. 
The Plains. 
Heliotropium 
supinum, 
BoRAGINACER. 
KOB. I. iv. 149. 
The Plains. 
Heliotropium 
strigosum, 
Safed bhangra, 
chitiphul, gorakh 
panu. 
BoRAGINACES. 
BB. iv l51. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Lahore, Dunera, 
Baluchistan 
(S‘ocks). 
Heliotrop-um 
indicum, 
Cynoglossum 
Wallichii, 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, annual, flat on the ground, rough, hairy ; leaves 
1-1} in., oblong with rounded ends and ovate with a broad 
tip, coarsely toothed, or almost pinnately divided ; flowers 
3 in., white, axillary, sessile, upper sometimes in a one- 
sided leafy spike, calyx 4-lobed, lobes narrow, corolla tube 
open, short, 4 lobes overlapping in bud, stamens 4, on the 
corolla tube; frwt an almost dry drupe consisting of 
4 pyrenes almost united, forming a pointed 4-ribbed 
pyramid, one seed in each pyrene. 
annual, prostrate, softly hairy, many branches, form- 
ing a patch 12 in. diam,; leaves 3-1} in., oblong with 
rounded ends or ovate ; flowers small, white, on short woolly 
spikes, calyx } in., ovate, woolly, 5-lobed, corolla tubular, 
throat not hairy, tube 3 in., ovate, lobes 5, spreading, 
very small, round, stamens 5, on the corolla tube enclosed 
within it ; fruit dry, 2-4-lobed, of 4 or less nutlets, 4 by 4 
in., margins broad, smooth. 
like the last species, but perennial, covered with white 
flat-lying hairs, stems tufted, spreading, leaves linear- 
lanceolate This plant is used locally to cure poisonous 
bites and stings, it is also used as a diuretic and laxative. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
