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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Ebbot, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals ununited. 



Hypericum 

 perforatum, 

 Common St. John's 

 Wort, 



Bassant, dendlu, 

 Hyepricace^. 

 P. B. I. i. 255. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-8,000 ft. 

 Simla, in shady 

 forest (Collett). 



Hypericum 

 elodeoides, 



Hypericaceze. 

 F. B. I. i. 225. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-12,000 ft. 

 Simla, Narkanda, 

 in shady forest 

 (Collett). 



Vahlia viscosa, 



Saxifragacbjb. 

 F. B. L ii. 399. 

 The Plains. 



Ammannia 

 pentandra, 



Ammannia 

 baccifera, 



Ammannia 

 saliQifoUa, 



Ammannia 

 jienegalensli, 



medium size, perennial, stem 2-angled, lowest branches 

 rooting ; leaves f in. long, oblong or ovate, blunt, dotted 

 with translucent glands, pale below with black dots, 

 sessile ; flowers 1 in. diam., yellow, in terminal or axillary 

 short-stalked clusters, sepals 5, ^ in. long, united at the 

 base, linear, short-pointed, petals 5, persistent, with 

 black glandular edges, stamens many, in 3 bundles, an- 

 thers black-dotted, styles 3, as long as the stamens, 

 ovary 3-celled ; capsule | in. long, ovoid, seeds many, 

 small. This plant was used in Arabic medicine. A red 

 dye can be obtained from the flowers. 



medium size, perennial, stems round, lowest branches 

 rooting, leaves 1-1-| in. long, ovate, blunt or lanceolate, 

 short-pointed, base stem-clasping, margins black-dotted, 

 flowers I in. diam., in clusters of branching racemes, 

 sepals 5, I in. long, narrowly lanceolate, black-dotted 

 and streaked, margins with gland-tipped teeth, petals 

 6, persistent, black-dotted and streaked ; in other charac- 

 ters like the last species. 



small, annual or biennial, velvety with sticky glands ; 

 leaves |-1 in. long, nearly sessile, oblong, narrowed at 

 both ends, short-pointed ; flowers | in. long, white, nearly 

 sessile, in pairs or solitary in nearly all the axils of the 

 upper leaves, calyx tube united to ovary and above it, 

 lobes 5, ovate and short-pointed, persistent in fruit, 

 petals 6, I in. long, ovate with a broad tip united to the 

 ovary, stamens 5 and styles 2, both ^ in. long ; capsule 

 I in. diam., one celled, nearly round, spUtting at the top 

 between the styles, seeds minute, many, smooth. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Bxafcipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Petals none. 



