Plants of the Punjab. 571 
Prostrate Herpes with ALTERNATE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Convolvulus 
arvensis, 
Evolvulus alsinoides, 
Cyanotis cristata, 
CoMMELINACEA, 
F. B. I. vi. 385. 
Hilly districts to 
4,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
Cyanotis barbata, 
CoMMELINACE. 
H. .By Lv: 385. 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
Cyanotis axillaris, 
Soltar), bagha-nulla. 
COMMELINACEA. 
F. B, I. vi. 888. 
The Plains. 
Andraichne 
telephoides, 
KUPHORBIACES. 
F, B. I. iv. 284. 
The Plains, 
west of the Jhelum. 
The Salt Range. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks), 
PETALS UNITED. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
stems 6-18 in., slender, creeping, rooting, smooth or 
hairy, branches leafy ; leaves 2-4 by $-3 in., ovate, oblong, 
sessile ; flowers blue, in short clusters within 2 series 
of overlapping green, sickle-shaped bracts, petals and 
stamens protruding, clusters terminal sessile, 2 or 8 
together, sepals 8, green, lanceolate, almost equal, joined 
below, petals 8, spreading round, almost equal, stalks _ 
joined in a tube, stamens 6, bearded ; capsule } in., blunt, 
3-celled, 2 seeds in each cell, seeds pitted, streaked. 
like the last species, but often tufted, leaves linear- 
lanceolate, flowers dark blue, clusters hairy, axillary as 
well as terminal, capsule 4-angled. 
like the last species, but larger, stouter, flowers in 
the axils of the leaves. 
small, perennial, root woody, stems very many, pros- 
trate, 8-12 in., slender, leafy ; leaves 2-4 in., oblong with 
rounded ends, ovate with a broad tip, sessile, leathery ; 
flowers ~, m. diam., on stalks shorter than the leaves, 
male flowers clustered in the axils, female solitary, males, 
calyx 5-6-lobed, petals 5-6, small, lanceolate, disk 
glands twice as many or as many, 2-lobed, alternating 
with the petals, females, calyx larger, petals minute 
or none, styles short, 2-fid ; capsule 4,-4 im. diam., round, 
depressed, 3 cocci, seeds curved, wrinkled, 
