Plants of the Punjab. 



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Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Stipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Geranium 

 rotundifolium, 



Geranium molle. 



Geranium lucidum, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Stipukte, Lobed. 

 see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 



Geranium 



Robertianum, 



Herb-Robert, 



Geraniace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 432. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-8,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Narkanda 

 (Collett).' 

 Murree (Doiiie). 



Erodium ciconium, 



Geraniace^. 

 F. B. 1. i. 434. 



N.-W. Frontier 



Province. 



Kohat. 



Erodium malaeoides, 



Geraniace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 435. 

 The Plains. 

 Attock, Peshawar, 

 Hazara (Stewart). 

 Rawalpindi . 

 Kot Fateh Khan 

 (Douie). 



medium size, annual or biennial, softly hairy, usually 

 glandular and strongly scented, often red, stem 1-2 ft. 

 high, succulent ; leaves 1-3 in. broad, triangular, oblong 

 cut to the base into 3-5 pinnately lobed segments, central 

 segment longest, lobes short-pointed, stalk long, stipules 

 I in. long, ovate ; flowers | in. diam., red pink streaked 

 with white in 2-flowered clusters on long stalks, sepals 

 5, broad, long-pointed, petals 5, narrow, smoothly stalked, 

 twice as long as the sepals, not notched, stamens 5 ; cap- 

 sule |-1 in. long, beaks separating upwards and attached 

 above by silky hairs. This plant was formerly much used in 

 European medicine in fevers, consumption and as a gargle. 



small, annual, velvety and sticky, branches stout, 

 swollen at the joints, leaves ovate, cut into 2 or 3 seg- 

 ments, segments divided into small toothed lobes, stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, thin, dry, flowers small, 

 purple on long 2- to many-flowered stalks, bracts thin, 

 dry, finely hairy with an abrupt point, sepals 5, ovate, thin 

 with 3 glandular hairy nerves, ending in a long bristle- 

 like point, petals 5, alternating with glands, broad at the 

 tip, stamens 5, alternating with 5 staminodes ; in other 

 characters like Geranium pratense except the beaks being 

 pitted at the top and the stjdes silky on the inner surface. 



small, annual, softly hairy, stem erect or widely 

 spreading ; leaves ovate-oblong, blunt or sharp-point- 

 ed, velvety, cut into 3 lobes only, not again sub- 

 divided, stipules large, thin, dry, blunt or sharp-pointed ; 

 flowers small, lilac on 3- to many-flowered stalks, bracts 

 ovate, thin, dry, finely hairy, sepals 5, thin, 2 outer 

 5-, and 3 inner 3-nerved, the bristle point hairy, petals 

 5, tip broad, 9-nerved, stamens 5 with 5 staminodes ; 

 carpels stalked, 3-angled, beaks 4-5 times as long as the 

 cell, with stiff brown hairs for | of its length, pits on the 

 beaks with a deep fold. 



Cannabis sativa, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



