684 
Plants of the Punjab. 
WATER PLANTS. 
HERBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE CoMPOUND LEAVES. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
flat protruding staminodes, main stalk 8-12 in., ascending, 
smooth, bracts small, ovate, nearly blunt-tipped, calyx 
minute, bell-shaped, 5-toothed, petals 5, strap-shaped, 
united at the base, stamens of perfect flowers protruding, 
anthers gland-crested, style thread-like, stigma club- 
shaped ; pod 3-1 in., oblong, strap-shaped, beaked, seeds 
6-8. This plant is often eaten as a pot herb. 
Heres WITH ALTERNATE ExstTiIpuLATE SimpLE LEAVES. 
Jussieua repens, 
ONAGRACES. 
ds. 001. 587. 
The Plains. 
Thanesar. 
In water and on the 
banks of tanks. 
Jussieua suffruticosa, 
Lal-bunlunga, 
bun-lung (Beng.). 
ONAGRACES. 
fobs nH. 587. 
The Plains, not the 
south-western 
desert region. 
Ludwigia parvifiora, 
ONAGRAOES,. 
F. B. I. ii. 588. 
The Plains. 
Common in marshes, 
rice fields, banks of 
rivers, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, prostrate, succulent, c eeping on land and 
floating in water, stem supported on water by white vesi- 
cles 4-1 in. below the msertions of the leaves on the stem ; 
leaves }-3 in., ovate or lanceolate with a broad tip, blunt, 
narrowed imto the stalk, smooth or hairy ; flowers 1. in. 
diam., whitish yellow on stalks 4-14 in. !ong, 2-bracteate 
at the top, calyx tube linear, teeth 4-6, short-pointed, 
persistent, petals 4-6, usually 5, 4 in. long, ovate with a 
broad tip, white with yellowish veins towards the base, 
stamens twice the humber of petals, style short, stigma 
4-5-lobed ; capsule $-14 in. long, linear-cylindric, woody, 
smooth or with scattered hairs, seeds very many, 4- 
cornered without a tuft of hairs, corky, with a netted skin. 
large, perennial, branching, sometimes woody and 
shrubby, growing in wet places, banks of rivers and 
swamps, leaves 2-3 in. long, sessile, lanceolate, ovate- 
lanceolate, rarely linear, short- or long-tipped, narrowed 
to the base, usually more or less woolly, flowers 4-1} in. 
diam., yellow, calyx teeth 4, petals 4, 1-3 in., capsule 
1-2 in. long, linear, 8-ribbed, papery, seeds almost hemis- 
pheric, coat brown, shining, not corky ; for other characters 
see the last species. It isused in dysentery, flatulence 
and constipation. 
erect, small, smooth, 8-24 in. high; leaves 1-3 in. 
long, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or linear-oblong, nar- 
rowed to the base ; flowers small, yellow, on short stalks, 
axillary, solitary, main flower stalk 2-bracteate at the top, 
calyx tube linear, teeth 8-5, short-tipped, persistent, petals 
8-5, small, stamens the same number as the calyx 
teeth, style simple, stigma round; capsule $-4 in, long, 
