Plavf? ofiJie Punjab. 



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Hekbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Stellaria media, 



Petals none. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Ammannia 

 pentandra, 



Lythraceje. 

 F. B. I. ii. 568. 

 The Plains, in moist 

 places. 



small, annual, smooth, much branched with many- 

 flowers ; leaves 1 in. long, oblong with rounded ends, 

 sessile, floral leaves bract-like, oblong, broad-based ; 

 flowers small, solitary, sessile in the axils of leaves, brac- 

 teoles awl-shaped, as long as the calyx, calyx teeth 10, 

 5 of which are accessory, lanceolate, long-pointed, petals, 

 if any, pink, 5, stamens 8, inserted about the middle of 

 the calyx tube, style thread-like or short ; capsule round, 

 depressed, 3-celled, seeds many, black, half round, hollowed 

 on the flat side. 



Ammannia baccifera, small, annual, rarely large, smooth; leaves 2-5 in. 



Dadmari. long, narrow, but blunt-pointed, narrow at the base ; 



Lythrace^. flowers small in dense clusters forming knots on the 



F. B. I. ii. 569. stem, bracts thread-like, shorter than the flower stalks. 



The Plains, in moist calyx widely bell-shaped, teeth 4, broadly triangular, 

 places. accessory folds or teeth very small, petals none, or very 



minute, stamens and style as in the last species ; capsule 

 like the last, but opening all round, about the middle, 

 seeds like the last. The leaves are used for blistering. 



Ammannia 

 salicifolia, 



Lythrace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 569. 

 The Plains. 



Ammannia 

 senegalensis, 



Lythrace^. 

 F. B. L ii. 570. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Common in rice 

 fields. 



Ammannia 

 multiflora, 



Lythraceje. 

 F. B. L ii. 570. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, annual, smooth, branched, leaves 2 

 by I in., lanceolate, rounded at the base, sessile ; other 

 characters like the last species. 



medium size, annual, smooth, branches 4-angled ; 

 leaves 1-2 in. long, lanceolate, sessile, nearly forked at the 

 base, flowers minute in small shortly-stalked clusters, 

 calyx bell-shaped, 4 short teeth, petals, if any, 4, pink, 

 stamens 6 or 8 ; capsule ^V in. diam., round, larger than 

 the calyx tube, red when ripe, seeds as in the last 

 species. 



very hke the last species, but the flowers and capsule 

 are smaller. 



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