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Plants of the Punjab. 
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WATER PLANTS. 
H®RBS WITH Opposite ExstiputatTn SimpLte LEAVES. 
Crinum defixum, 
AMARYLLIDACES. 
F. B. I. vi. 281, 
The Plains, on 
swampy river banks. 
Naias major, 
NAIADACES. 
F.:B. I. vi. 569. 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
PETALS NONE. 
large, bulbous, neck cylindric, bulb large, spindle- 
shaped ; leaves 24-36 by ?-1 in., linear, erect, blunt-pointed, 
concave ; flowers 4-5 in., white tinged with red, fragrant 
at night, sessile in ovate-lanceolate sheaths, 14-2 in. long, 
in umbels, 6-15-flowered on stout main stalks 14-2 ft. long, 
calyx 6-segmented, tube 24-8 in., segments nearly as long, 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, corolla none, stamens 6, bright 
red, shorter than the segments, anthers 4 in.; fruit 1 in, 
diam., nearly round, 1-2-seeded. 
submerged, rootstock creeping, stem cylindrical, 
branched, thread-like ; leaves 4-14 in. long, linear, teeth 
4-8 on each side, triangular, dorsally spinous ; flowers male 
and female on separate plants, minute, solitary, axillary, 
male flowers conssit of an oblong tube, 2-8-toothed with 
an inner tube, thin, transparent, stamen one, united to the 
inner tube, female flowers consist of one sessile. oblong 
carpel, stigmas 2-3, thread-like; achene ,-$ in., seed 
erect. 
HeRBs WITH Opposite ExstrpuLATE Lopnp LEAVES. 
Myriophyllum 
verticillatum, 
HALORRGAGIDACER. 
EB, aan, 
Kashmir, 7,000 ft., 
in ponds. 
Myriopyhilum 
spicatum, 
Water Milfoil, 
HaLoRRHAGIDAOEA. 
F. B. I. ii. 488, 
Himalaya, 
1-5,000 ft, 
Kashmir, 
Baluchistan, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, stem floating, smooth, varying in length with 
the depth, leafy; leaves whorled, in fours, pinnately 
divided, segments simple, distinct, hair-like, 4-4 in. ; flowers 
male and female separate, small, sessile in whorls of 4, form- 
ing slender axillary spikes projecting above the water, 
one large, 2 minute bracts round each flower, upper 
flowers of spike male, lower female, of male flower calyx 
4-toothed, petals 4, concave, stamens 8, short, of female 
flowers calyx 4-grooved, teeth 4, minute, petals minute, 
stigmas 4, nearly sessile; fruit nearly square, not deeply 
grooved, dividing into 4 one-seeded nutlets. 
very like the the last species, but the spikes always 
terminal, fruit narrowly but deeply grooved, carpels 
more or less tubercled on the back. 
