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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Asperula 

 brachyantha, 



Eubiace.e. 

 F. B. L iii. 209. 

 Himalaya, Kashmir, 

 7-12,000 ft. 



Valerianella 

 dentata, 



Valerienalla 

 Szovitziana, 



Scabiosa Olivieri, 



Scabiosa speciosa, 



Spilanthes Acmella, 



Anagallis arvensis, 

 Pimpernel, 



Jonkmari. 

 Primulace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 506. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla in fields 

 (Oollett). 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Cynanchum 

 Vincetoxioum, 



AsOLEPiADACE.13. 



F. B. L iv. 22. 



Himalaya, 

 7-11,000 ft. 

 ShaU, Sangri, 

 Patarnala (Collctt). 



Petals united. 



very like the last species, but with shorter leaves 

 in pairs, shorter blunter bracts, and longer woolly corolla, 

 flowers more in heads. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see HerbS; Unbranched, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



small, annual, slender, branches square, growing 

 from the base ; leaves |-]i in., ovate or lanceolate, short- 

 pointed, dotted with glands ; flowers bright blue, rarely 

 scarlet, J4 i^- diam., open in sunlight on solitary axil- 

 lary slender stalks, longer than the leaves, erect in floWer, 

 bent down in fruit, calyx segments 5,- narrow lanceolate, 

 long-pointed, nearly ag long as the corolla, corolla wheel- 

 like, segments 5, with a few hairs, stamens 5, very hairy, 

 ovary one-celled, stylo thread-like ; capsule size of a small 

 pea, round, opening by a circular slit round the middle, 

 seeds many, minute, 8-angled. This plant is used by In- 

 dians to cure cerebral diseases. 



small, perennial, velvety or smooth, juice milky ; 

 leaves 2 by 1| in., broadly ovate, shortly stalked, point- 

 ed ; flowers i in. diam., yellow, in sessile or stalked branch- 

 ing racemes or flat clusters, axillary, calyx Segments 5, 

 corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5, smooth, a ring of 5 erect 

 triangular oblong or rounded scales (corona) united to the 

 staminal tube, stamens 5, united, flattened, anthers 2- 

 celled, projecting over the stigmas, forming a 5-angled disk, 

 carpels 2 ; folHcles 2-4 in. long, smooth, slender, tapering, 

 seeds many, flattened, winged, and crowned with a b-nidh 

 of fine hairs. 



