Plants oj the Punjab. 



151 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Ammannia 

 multiflora, 



Epilobium 

 angustilolium, 

 French Willow or 

 Rosebay, 



Onagracb^. 

 F. B. L ii. 582. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-12,000 ft. 



Petals ununited. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Petals none. 



medium size, smooth ; leaves 3-6 by | in., nearly 

 sessile, short-pointed, margin even or minutely toothed ; 

 flowers f in., rose purple, in spikes at the ends of branches, 

 bracts narrow, soon falling off, calyx tube scarcely pro- 

 duced above the ovary, covered with close white wool, 

 linear, teeth 4, lanceolate, long-pointed, purplish, almost 

 petal-like, petals 4, |-| in., ovate with a broad tip, stalked, 

 stamens 8, on the ovary, bent on one side, 4 shorter, style 

 cylindric, hairy above the base, stigmas 4, distinct, spread- 

 ing ; capsule Hnear, 4-celled, sphtting from the apex, 

 2|-3| in., velvety, valves 4, recurved, seeds many, narrow- 

 ly ovoid, smooth, crowned with a tuft (coma) of dirty 

 yellow silky hairs. 



Epilobium 

 latlfolium, 



Onagrace^. 

 F. B. L ii. 583. 

 Himalaya, 

 11-14,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Epilobium 

 origanlfolium, 



Rubia tibetioa, 



BUBIAOEiE. 



F. B. L iii. 204. 

 Himalaya, 

 10.14,000 ft. 

 Kulu (Hay). 



small, smooth, leaves l|-3 by |-f in,, oblong, nar- 

 rowed to both ends, margin even or minutely toothed, 

 blunt or short-pointed, flowers on stalks in the axils of 

 distant leaves, no bracts; for other characters see the 

 last species. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Petals united. 



small, perennial, rough, root thick, woody, bundles 

 of stems each \ in. thick, stout, with glistening white 

 bark, erect, annual shoots clustered together, simple Or 

 branching, nodes of the stems covered with thin bases 

 of old leaves ; leaves |-1 by \-\ in., sessile, broadly ovate, 

 round or lanceolate, often in a circle of 4 leaves, leathery, 

 margins and midrib rough ; flowers I in. diam., in axillary 

 or terminal clusters, shorter than the leaves, or soHtary 

 on long axillary stocks, calyx tube ovoid or round, no teeth, 

 corolla bell-sliappd, lobes 4-5, lancoolal's short-pointed, 

 stamens 4-5, anthers round, style 2-branched, ovary 

 2-cell^d ; fruit ^ in. diam., smooth, round or almost 2-lobed, 

 seeds 2, small. 



