Plants of the Punjah. 



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Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Stipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals none. 



Pilea scripta 



Urticace^. 

 F. B. L V. 556. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, in shady 

 places (Collett). 



Elatostemma 

 surculosum, 



large, smooth, .Jbrauched ; leaves 3-10 by 1-3 in., 

 lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, tip tail-like, teeth small, 

 shallow, atalk |-2 in. long, stipules f^hort ; flowers like 

 the last species ; carpels rough. 



see Herbs, Prostrate, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Stipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Fagonia arabica or 

 cretica, 



Usturgar. 

 Zygophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 425. 

 The Plains. 

 Common in fields. 

 Eawalpindi. 



small, annual, green, spiny with glandular woody 

 branches ; leaves small, 1-3-lobed, leaflets linear, short- 

 pointed, stalk often leaf -like, stipules of 2 spines longer 

 than the leaflets ; flowers small, pale rose-coloured, 

 on solitary stalks between the spines, sepals 5, soon 

 falling off, oblong-lanceolate, half the length of the petals, 

 petals 5, closed, soon falling off, stamens 10, style and 

 stigma undivided ; capsule velvety, 5-cornered, 5-celled, 

 2 seeds in each cell. An infusion of the leaves is used as 

 a cooling medicine and as an antiseptic for wounds. 



Fagonia Brugu'eri, 



see Herbs, Prostrate, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 



Geranium pratense. 

 Cranes Bill, 

 Meadow Geranium, 



Geraniace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 429. 

 Kashmir, 

 7-10,000 ft. 

 The Chor near 

 Simla. 



medium size, stout, root stock perennial, joints swol- 

 len, hairs spreading ; leaves 2-3 in. diam., sometimes 

 alternate, round, cut into 7-9 segments, short-pointed, 

 stalks long, stipules small, lanceolate ; flowers l-|-2 in. 

 diam., blue-purple, in pairs on axillary bracteate glandular 

 and hairy stalks, sepals 5, long-tipped, petals 5, stalked, 

 alternate with 5 glands, spreading, stamens 10, 5 long 

 alternating with 5 short, filaments flattened, narrowed 

 upwards, united below, styles 5 ; capsule 5-lobed and 

 celled, cells one-seeded, the capsule and styles elongate, 

 the styles curl up with a jerk, ejecting the seeds. 



