636 
Plants of the Punjab. . 
WATER PLANTS. 
HERBS WITH ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Ipomeea aquatica, 
Ganthian, nari, nalr. 
CONVOLVULACE. 
P61; rv. 210. 
The Plains. 
Monochoria 
hasteefolia, 
PoNTEDERIACES, 
F. B. I. vi. 862. 
The Plains. 
Monochoria 
vaginalis, 
PoNTEDERIAOCEA. 
F. B. I. vi. 368. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Typha angustata, 
Reed Mace, Lesser 
Cats’ Tail, 
Patura, kundar, pitz. 
TYPHACE A. 
F. B. I. vi. 589. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Kashinir, 
PETALS UNITED. 
annual, smooth, stems lymg on mud or floating on 
water, hollow ; leaves 3-6 in., stalk 1-6 in., generally long, 
oblong-heart-shaped, or forked at the base, entire or 
angular, almost lobed; flowers 2 in., pale purple, on 
1-5-flowered stalks, 2-7 in. long, mmor flower stalks long, 
1-2 in., bracts small, sepals 5, 4 im. long, almost equal, 
smocth, corolla 5-plaited, margin very shortly lobed, 
smooth, stamens 5, included ; capsule } in., ovoid, 4-2- 
seeded, smooth, seeds minutely closely silky. The leaves 
are eaten as a vegetable, the dry juice forms an excellent 
purgative. 
PETALS NONE. 
rootstock creeping, spongy; leaves 6-7 by 5-6 in. 
arrow-shaped, long-stalked, erect or floating, blunt or 
short-tipped, many nerved, stalk of the floral leaf swollen 
above, clasping the short main flower stalk, stalks of the 
basal leaves 18-24 in., broad and sheathing at the bise ; 
flowers 3-1 in. diam., violet blue, dotted with red, long- 
stalked in racemes, calyx petaloid, bell-shaped, segments 6 
unequal, larger ovate with a broad tip, smaller oblong, 
spurred, longest one with blue anther, the rest yellow, 
capsule } in., nearly round or oblong, seeds small. 
like the last species, but rootstock short, nearly 
erect, leaves linear to ovate and ovate-heart-shaped, 
few nerved, flowers short-stalked in spikes rather than 
racemes. 
lower part of stem is a thick rhizome, stem 6-10 ft., 
projects high out of the water ; leaves #-1 in. broad, linear 
erect or floating, spongy, half cylindric above the sheath ; 
flowers in very dense cylindric spikes (catkins), upper 
part yellow of male flowers, lower brown of female flowers, 
male flowers consist of 2-5 stamens, enclosed in a number 
of hairs, female flowers consist of one carpel, one persistent 
style enclosed in hairs; achenes minute, membranous, 
covered with a tuft of hairs. The leaves are used for 
matting, the young shoots and roots are eaten, 
