,6 PRIMULACE&. [CENTUNCULTJSV 



A, arvensis. Linn. 8p. PI. 148 ;'Royle 111. 809; F. B. I. Hi, 506; Watt 

 E. D. ; Collett Fl. Siml. 302; Cooke Fl. Bomb, u, SO ; Prain Beng. PI. 64Q. 

 Poor Man's Weather-glass. 



n erect or procumbent glabrous annual, branching from the base* 

 Branches ascending, 5-15 in. long, quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves sessile) 

 up to one inch long, ovate or lanceolate, cordate, acute, gland-dotted. 

 Peduncles 1-2 in., erect in flower, decuryed in fruit. Calyx~lobes narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla -| in. in diam., a little shorter 

 than the calyx, margins of lobes usually ciliate. Capsule about in. 

 in diam,, dehiscing transversely at the middle, style persistent. Seeds 

 trigonous. 



Abundant throughout the area especially as a weed of cultivation, flower- 

 ing during the latter part of the cold season. Flowers always blue 

 within this area. DISTEIB. Over the greater part of India ascending 

 to 7,000 feet on the Himalaya. The red-flowered variety is frequently 

 found in Kashmir, and both kinds extend to Europe and W. Asia. 

 The flowers always close np in cloudy weather. 



5. CENTUNCULUS. Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 506. 



Small annual berbs. Leaves alternate or the lower subopposite, 

 sessile or nearly so, entire. Flowers minute, solitary, axillary, 

 ebracteate, white or pink. Calyx 4-5-partite. Corolla urceolate, 

 4 5-fid. Stamens 4-5, on the corolla throat ; filaments flattened 

 glabrous. Ovary subglobose ; style filiform, ovules many. Capsule 

 globose, circumsciss. Seeds many, peltate. Species 3 or 4, in Europe, 

 Asia and America. 



C. pentandrus, R. Br. Prod. 427. C. tenellus, Duly ; t: B. I. iii ; 

 506 1 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 80 ; Prain Beng. PI. 641 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 803. 



A slender erect branching- glabrous annual, up to 8 in. high. Stem with 

 the angles more or less winged. Leaves alternate, subsessile, in. 

 long, ovate orbicular or obovate, obtuse or subacute, apiculate. Flowers 

 4-5-merous ; peduncles filiform, --| in. long, erect in flower, spreading 

 in fruit. Calya?-segments narrowly lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 

 shorter than the calyx, white ; tube subgloboee, lobes ovate-lanceolate. 

 Capsule membranous, dehiscing transversely about the middle. Seeds 

 minute, trigonous. 



Pehra Dun (Gamble). DISTRIB. : Chota Nagpnr, extending to C. and S 

 India. It is found also on the Central and W. Himalaya up to 4,00# 

 feet 5 and beyond India it extends to Trop. America and Australia. 



6, SAMOLUS. Tournef.; Fl. Brit, Tnd. iii, 506. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves radical and alternate. Flowers 

 in terminal racemes or corjmbs, white; pedicels bracteate. Calyx 



