570 
Plants of the Punjab, 
ProstRATE HpRBs witH ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVEs. 
Asperugo 
procumbens, 
BoRAGINAOER. 
TB. Tu iv. 166; 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Rawalpindi. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Bothriospernum 
tencilum, 
BORAGINACER. 
F. B. I. iv. 167. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Gastrocotyle hispida, 
Arnebia 
hispidissima, 
Arnebia Griffithii, 
Arnebia Thomsoni, 
Ipomeea Batatas, 
Ipomea aqautica, 
Calystegia hederacea, 
CONVOLVULACES, 
EF. B. I. iv. 217. 
The Plains. 
PETALS UNITED. 
rough, hairy, spreading, stem angled, angles beset 
with minute recurved prickles; leaves 1-24 in., oblong, 
spoon-shaped, nearly entire ; flowers 3 in. diam., purplish 
blue or white, axillary, almost sessile, solitary or paired, 
calyx bell-shaped, 5-fid, stiff, lobes in flower =, in., oblong, 
calyx in fruit 4 m. diam., net-veined, lobes large, tri- 
angular, corolla tube short, mouth closed with 5 scales, 
lobes 5, overlapping in bud, blunt, spreading, stamens 5 ; 
nutlets 4, }-4 im., erect, laterally flattened, smooth, stony. 
weak, annual or biennial, rough, hairy, prostrate, 
12-24 in.; leaves 1 by 4-2 in., ovate-lanceolate, lower 
stalked ; flowers small, white, axillary, stalked, the upper 
passing into a raceme with bracts, calyx 5-partite, lobes 
narrow, hardly enlarged in fruit, 4-4 in., lanceolate or 
linear, corolla } in. diam., tube short, throat with 5 scales, 
lobes 5, blunt, spreading, stamens 5, enclosed in the tube ; 
nutlets 4, #)-;1; m., no angles, roughly granular, scar on 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Water Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
annual, smooth, prostrate in cultivation, climbing in 
bushes ; leaves 1-8 in., heart-shaped or arrow-head-shaped, 
entire or lobed; flowers 1 in., pink purple, nearly bell- 
shaped, on one-flowered stalks,» 2 in. long, bracts 2, 
1 in. ovate, enclosing the calyx, persistent, calyx deeply 
5-lobed, lobes }4 in., oblong, blunt, smooth, inner smaller, 
corolla 5-lobed, lobes 5-plaited, almost entire, stamens 5, 
on the tube and enclosed in it, style thread-like, stigmatic 
lobes 2, oblong; capsule } in., ovoid, smooth, almost 
pointed, seed smooth. 
