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Plants oj the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals united. 



Barleria cristata, 



Tadrelu, hansa siyah. 



ACANTHACE^. 



F. B. L 488. 



The Plains to 



6,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Coilett). 



Hazara (Douie). 



Martynia diandra, 



Nelsonia campestris, 



Acanthace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 394. 

 The Plains to 

 4 000 ft. 



Hygrophila 

 polysperma, 



Andrographis 

 echioides, 



ACANTHACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 505. 

 The Plains. 



Stamens two. 



large, hairy, branching ; leaves 2-4 by 1 in., 

 shortly stalked, ovate-lanceolate, short-pointed ; flowers 

 1^-1 1 in. long, purpKsh blue or white, in short crowded 

 head-like, nearly sessile, axillary spikes, bracts none, 

 bracteoles ^-f in., linear-lanceolate, toothed, sepals 4 in 

 2 pairs, outer sepals | in., toothed, nearly spinous, corolla 

 1|-1^ in. long, 5-lobed, lobes | in., ovate, tube funnel- 

 shaped, stamens 2, 2 aborted much smaller, style long ; 

 capsule I in., oblong with a short point, seeds 4 or less, 

 silky. The seeds are supposed to cure snake-bite, the 

 leaves and roots to reduce swelling. 



Corolla two-lipped. 



Stamens two. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



small, annual, wooll}^ with trailing flower stems 

 1-8 ft. long ; leaves of the main stem 4-8 in. long, oblong 

 with rounded ends, stalked, flowering stem leaves nearly 

 sessile, |-2 in. ; flowers i in., purple or white, in crowded 

 ovate or cylindric mostl}' sessile spikes |-2 in. long, ter- 

 minal on lateral branches, bracts ^-| in., ovate, blunt, 

 woolly with glands, green, calyx ^ in., green, marked with 

 longitudinal lines, hairy or nearly papery, corolla ^ in., tube 

 slender, 2-iipped, lobes 5, blunt, spreading, stamens 2, 

 attached above the middle of the tube, style 2-lobed ; 

 capsule l-i in., oblong, short-pointed, seeds 8-12, yellow- 

 ish with brown granular marks, roundly oblong with 

 rounded ends. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



small to medium size, annual, velvety and with 

 spreading white hairs ; leaves 21 by 1 in., oblong, blunt, 

 sessile, base narrowed ; flowers ^-| in., pink or white wrth 

 purple, in dense hairy sticky axillary racemes about the 

 length of the leaves on very short flower stalks, bracts 

 small, bracteoles minute or none, calyx deeply 5-lobed, 

 lobes |-J in., linear, in fruit sometimes | in., corolla ^-| in., 

 tubular, 2-lipped, white or pink with dark purple lower 

 lip, velvety, stamens 2, filaments hairy, anthers protruding, 



