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Plants oj the Punjab. 



EEECT HEEBS. 

 Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Spergula arvensis, 

 Corn Spurry, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F. B. L i. 243. 



The Plains to 



7,000 ft. 



Simla (in corn fields) 



(Collett). 



Petals ununited. 



medium size, annual, branched from the root, knotty, 

 often sticky ; leaves |-2 in., in opposite clusters, linear, 

 half cylindrical, grooved below, rather fleshy, stipules thin, 

 dry, small ; flowers |-| in. diam., in forked terminal 

 clusters on long stalks, turned back after flowering, sepals 5, 

 blunt, green, unjoined, petals 5, white, blunt, slightly 

 longer than the sepals, stamens 10, styles 5 ; capsule nearly 

 round, shining, longer than the calyx, opening by 5 valves, 

 seeds many, keeled or narrowly winged, granular. 



Spergula penfandra, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F. B. 1. i. 243. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 (in corn fields). 



much the same as the last species, but leaves with 

 bluish-green waxy gloss, not grooved below, petals sharp- 

 pointed, styles 3, seeds smooth, flattened, broadly 

 winged. 



Spergula rubra, 

 Sand Spurry, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 244. 

 The Plains. 

 Shahpur (Douie). 



small, annual, stems 6-8 in. long ; leaves |-1 in. 

 long, linear, flat, fleshy, stipules split, broad, silvery ; 

 flowers J-| in. diam., pink or white, sepals 5, lanceo- 

 late, blunt, margins thin, dry, petals 5, ovate with broad 

 tips, shorter than the sepals, stamens 5 or 10, styles 8 ; 

 capsule ovoid, longer than the calyx, seeds mam^, pale 

 brown, rough, not winged. In Bentham and Hooker's 

 British Flora this plant is called Spergularia rubra. 



Drymaria cordata, 



Caryophyllaceje, 

 F. B. I. i. 244. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 



large, annual, smooth, found in shady moist places, 

 branches forking into two, slender, 1-2 ft. ; leaves flat, 

 stalked, ovate or round, tipped with an abrupt point, 

 stipules of a few bristles, soon falling off ; flowers ^-^ in. 

 diam., in axillary or terminal clusters, stalks slender, bracts 

 with thin edges, sepals 5, green, petals 5, 2-lobed, 

 lobes narrow, not longer than the sepals, stamens 3-5, 

 styles short ; capsule 3-angled, 3-valved, seeds one to 

 many, round, flattened, rough with hard projections. 



