Plants of the Punjab. 689 
WATER PLANTS. 
Herss WitH ALTERNATE HEXSTIPULATE CoMPOUND LEAVES 
Jinanthe 
:tolonifera, 
Water Dropwort, 
UMBELLIFERS. 
Be Bo, 1-695, 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Kashmir, in 
marshes. 
Acorus Calamus, 
Sweet Flag, 
Bach, warch, bariboj, 
AROIDEZ or 
ARACER. 
FP. B.. E.*vis 505: 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
In marshes. 
Alisma Plantago, 
Water Plantain, 
ALISMACEA. 
F. B. I. vi. 559, 
Himalaya, 
1-7,000 ft. 
Patarnala, in 
marshes. 
Alisma reniforme, 
ALISMACEA. 
F. B. I. vi. 560, 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
In marshes. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
large, perennial, stem 2-4 ft., sueculent, thick, prostrate 
or ascending, often floating, rooting at the lower joints, 
bearing runners at the base ; leaves once or twice pinnate, 
upper often of only 3-leaflets, leaflets lanceolate 1-2 
by 4-1 in., toothed, sometimes lobed ; flowers white, small, 
many m a eompound umbel, umbels leaf-opposed, long- 
stalked, bracts 1-8 or none, bracteoles several, linear up 
to $ in., rays 15-30, nearly equal, calyx 5-toothed, teeth 
lanceolate, short-pointed, petals 5, unequal, notched, ovary 
2-celled, styles 2, carpels 4 by 3, in., ovoid with a broad 
tip, ridges 5 distinct but not raised. 
UNBRANCHED, 
stem 6-12 in., flat, rootstock thick, creeping ; leaves 
all radical, tufted, 2-3 ft. by 4 in., margins crimped ; flowers — 
small, yellow-green, along a stalk spadix) 1}-8 in. long, 
tapering in a leaf-like sheath (spathe), narrow, sepals 6, 
free, persistent, petals none, stamens 6, at the base of the 
sepals, berries yellow, green, angular, 1-8-seeded, seeds 
oblong. The rootstock is used as flea-bane in this country, 
also as an emeticin large doses, in small doses it is useful 
in flatulence or dyspepsia. 
medium size, perennial, root fibrous, stems 1}-3 ft., 
base swollen, leaves all radical, undivided, entire, 84 by 
1$ in., ovate-lanceolate, base tapering or slightly heart- 
shaped, stalks 13-10 in. ; flowers 4 in. diam., pink with a 
yellow base, on long slender unequal stalks in bracteate 
clusters forming a large terminal pyramidal branching 
raceme, sepals 3, green, persistent, petals 8, thin, soon 
falling off, stamens 6, ovaries many, small, in a ring, 
style slender, stigmas terminal; achenes 20-30 in one 
circle, surrounded by the three enlarged sepais. 
like the last species, but the leaves are leathery, kidney- 
shaped or circular with a heart-shaped base, flowers 
$,in. diam., white. 
