Plants ojihe Punjab. 



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fiEKBs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margins Entire. 

 Petals united. 



Striga lutea, 



ScROPHULARIACEiE. 



F. B. L iv. 299. 



The Plains to 



G,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Dharmpur 



^Bomford). 



Striga euphrasioides, 



Scrophulariace^. 

 F. B. L iv. 299. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Chakwal (Douie). 



Corolla two-lipped. 



Stamens four. 



small, annual, rough or hairy, slender, branched 

 or not ; leaves ^-1| in. long, linear, sessile, upper alter- 

 nate, sometimes reduced to floral bracts ; flowers ^ in. 

 long, yellow, sometimes white, scarlet or purple, sessile, 

 solitary, axillary, forming terminal spikes, calyx tubular, 

 10-rarely, 15-ribbed, 5-toothed, corolla variable in size, 

 tube slender, twice as long as the calyx, bent in at 

 the top, 2-lipped, upper lip usually short notched or 

 deeply cut, lower divided into three, stamens 4 in unequal 

 pairs, within the corolla, anthers one-celled, vertical, 

 fixed at the back portion of the stamen behind the anther, 

 sometimes pointed, style thickened above, stigma un- 

 divided ; capsule nearly round, splitting through the cells, 

 seeds very many, netted. 



small, slender to stout, branched, rough or cover- 

 ed with stiff hairs, leaves |-2 in., often 1- to 2-toothed, 

 hnear, flowers |-| in. long, white, at distant intervals 

 in a terminal spike, calyx I in., 15-ribbed, lobes as long 

 as the tube, bell-or funnel-shaped in fruit, corolla ^-| in., 

 tube velvety at the bend ; otherwise like the last species. 



Sesamum indicum, 



Hygrophila 

 salicifolia, 



Acanthace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 407. 

 The Plains. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed, Corolla 2-lipped, Stamens Four. 



small to medium size, found in wet places, near- 

 ly smooth ; leaves 2|^ by |-f in., lanceolate, smooth, nearly 

 sessile, narrowed at both ends, marked in lines by rap- 

 hides ; flowers |-f in., pale purple, sessile, in bracteate 

 and bracteolate axillary circles, bracts J-|, ovate or oblong, 



round at the end, bracteoles 



1.1 



6 4 



in., lanceolate, short- 



pointed, half as long as the calyx, calyx |-| in., divided 

 half way down in flower, all the way down in fruit, lobes 

 5, linear, covered with bristly hairs, corolla-tube dilated 

 near the mouth, 2-lippcd, upper lip erect, concave, notched 

 or 2-lobed, lower broad, 3-lobed, stamens 4, in equal or 

 unequal pairs, style long, hairy, stigma linear, undivided ; 

 capsule |-| in., narrowly oblong, 20-28-seeded, seeds ovoid, 

 flattened, white hairs spring up when wetted. 



