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Plants ofjhe Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Stellaria crispata, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 229. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 The Glen. 

 Simla, in shady 

 places (Collett). 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Stellaria paniculata, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 229. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-9,000 ft. 

 Fagu, Narkanda 

 (Collett). 



Stellaria media, 



Stellaria bulbosa, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F.B.Li. 231. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-9,000 ft. 

 Jammu to Murree 

 (Jacquemont). 

 Hazara (Barrett). 



Petals ununited. 



large, straggling, slightly velvety above, stems quad- 

 rangular, shining with a line of fine hairs, joints often 

 hairy ; leaves 3-8 in. long, lanceolate or oblong, rather 

 leathery, tips slender, margin more or less crisped, sessile, 

 long-pointed ; flowers small, white, in much branched 

 clusters, terminal, sepals ^ in., 5, oblong-lanceolate, long- 

 pointed, margin narrowly thin and dry, often sticky, 

 petals 5, 2-fid, as long as or twice as long as the sepals, 

 stamens 10, styles 3 ; capsule short, 3-celled, seeds one 

 or two, granulated. 



medium size, very like the last species but the stem 

 is reclining and the leaves are not crisped, flowers are 

 smaller, petals notched, shorter than the sepals, capsule 

 equal to the calyx, seeds wrinkled. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



small, smooth, rootstock creeping, bearing small 

 round underground branches with buds or eyes, stem 

 slender, erect, unbranched with a line of hairs ; leaves 

 2-6 pairs, 1-1| in. long, ovate with a broad tip or un- 

 equally lanceolate, almost short-pointed, rather fleshy, 

 sessile or narrowed into a stalk, margins rarely hairy ; 

 flowers of two kinds, the lower on the plant from slender 

 stalks being minute without petals bearing ripe seeds, 

 the nearly large flowers, | in. diam., rarely producing 

 seed, sepals 4 or 5, green, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 |-f in,, shorter than the petals, petals 4 or 5, white, ovate- 

 oblong, shortly 2-lobed, stamens 10, with purple anthers, 

 styles 2, thread-like ; capsule 8-angled, valves 4, divided 

 to the base, seeds few, large, furnished with excres- 

 cences on the surface. 



Stellaria glauca, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F.B.Li. 233. 

 Himalaya, Lahul 

 (Jaeschke). 



medium size, perennial, slender, quite smooth, stem 

 quadrangular ; leaves 1-2 in. long, sessile, oblong or linear- 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, base rounded, margins thickened ; 

 flowers |-| in, diam., white, on nearly solitary terminal 

 rather stout straight stalks, bracts thin, sepals 4 or 5, 

 more or less united at the base, linear-oblong, long- or 

 short-pointed, green, petals 4 or 5, broad, 2-lobed, twice 



