Plants of the Punjab, | wa 633 
WATER PLANTS. 
Herpes with ALTERNATE §TIPULATH SiMpLE LEAVES. 
ParaLs NONE, 
Ruppia rostellata, large, slender, branched, submerged, found in brackish 
NAIADACES. waters, stem 2 ft. and more; leaves 1-3 in., thread-like, 
F. B. I. vi. 568. sheaths stipule-like ; flowers minute, 2-6 together within 
The Plains to a leaf sheath on a short main stalk, which lengthens after 
5,000 ft. flowering, straight or slightly twisted, sepals and petals 
Kalar Kahar. none, anthers 2, sessile ; carpels 4, in fruiting long-stalked, 
stigma sessile, obliquely ovoid 3; in. long, shortly beaked. 
Zannichellia small, very slender, submerged, stem 3-6 in., branched ; 
palustris, leaves 1-3 in., linear, in threes or opposite, stipules small, 
Horned Pond Weed, sheathing, thin ; flowers minute, one male and one female 
NAIADACES. flower sessile in the stipules, no sepals or petals, male flower 
Po. Evi. 568. one long stamen, anther 2-celled, female flower 4 one- 
The Plains to celled carpels, style long, stigma discoid; achenes 2-4, 
15,000 ft. curved, flattened, usually covered with small projections 
Common in marshes or wrinkled, sometimes stalked, crowned by the persistent 
and ponds (Collett). style from which it gets its English name, 
HERBS wiITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE LOBED LEAVES. 
PETALS NONE. 
Ranunculus small, submerged, leaves much divided into thread- 
aquatilis, var. like segments, stipules half attached with large processes ; 
trichophyllus, flowers white, small, in panicles, sepals 3-5, petals none, 
Water Crowfoot, stamens few, styles short ; fruit is a head of beaked achenes, 
RANUNCULACER. transversely wrinkled. 
Bes. by 16; : 
The Plains to 
10,000 ft. 
Kashmir, 
Baluchistan. 
Heres wrt ALTERNATE STIPULATE CoMPOUND LBAVEs. 
ie PETALS UNUNITED. 
Neptunia oleracea, annual, prostrate, floating on water, rooting at the 
Lajalu, pani lajak. joints of the stem which gives out leaves and flower stalks, 
LEGUMINOSS. stem stout ; leaves twice pinnate, stipules obliquely heart- 
F. B. T.it:-285. shaped, persistent, pinne 4-6, 2-3 in. long, with 8-15 
The Plains, pairs of leaflets, 4-4 in. long, strap-shaped, thin, sensi ive ; 
east of the Sutlej. flowers minute, yellow in dense heads on axillary main 
stalks, the flowers of base of head being replaeed by yellow 
