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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals none. 



Oxybaphus 

 himalaicus, 



Punac, hhans. 



NYCTAGINACEiE. 



F. B. L iv. 708. 

 Himalaya, 

 G-9,000 ft. 

 Kulu (Edgeworth). 



large, glandular hairy, sticky, branched ; leaves 

 1|-2| in., ovate, short-pointed, leaf stalk |-1 in. long; 

 flowers small, pink, solitar}^ on long slender axillary stalks 

 forming a loose cluster, one bract forming a 5-toothed 

 cup, I in. long, surrounding* the calyx, calyx pink, tube 

 short-lobed, lobes soon falhng off, stamens 4, united below, 

 enclosed within the calyx tube ; fruit i in. long, ovoid, 

 rough, black. This plant is used for fodder. 



Boerhaavia elegans, 



Sant. 



Nyctaginace^. 

 F. B. L iv. 709. 

 The Plains. 

 Kahuta (Douie). 

 Baluchistan. 



large, shrubby, much branched ; leaves 1-1| in. long, 

 few, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, blunt, fleshy with 

 a hoar-frostlike bloom ; flowers minute, in very large 

 two or three times divided clusters on very long slender 

 main and minor stalks, calyx funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, 

 petals none, stamens 1-5, projecting ; fruit -j^L in. long, 

 narrowly oblong with rounded ends, strongly ribbed, 

 quite smooth. The seeds are eaten. The leaves are used 

 as a diuretic. 



Cyathula tomentosa, 



AMARANTACEiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 722. 

 Himalaya, 

 2-0,500 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



large, felted or woolly, branches nearly 4-angled ; 

 leaves 2-10 in. long, oblong, pointed at both ends, rarely 

 round, shortly stalked, ^-| in. ; flowers white, shining, 

 in small clusters crowded in round heads forming ter- 

 minal spikes, each cluster containing one or two perfect 

 flowers and many imperfect ones consisting of hooked 

 sepals, spikes 2-6 in. long, stalked, calyx 5-fid, segments 

 narrowly lanceolate, 2 or all ending in hooked extremities, 

 lengthening w4th age, stamens 5, alternate, with 5 fringed 

 staminodes united below, style slender, stigma rounded ; 

 fruit dry, bladder-shaped, 2-nerved, seed one, ovate, shin- 

 ing. 



Cyathula capitata, 



Amarantace.h. 

 F. B. Liv. 722. 

 Himalaj'-a, 

 6-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Gollett). 



very like the last, only more slendor nud flowers col- 

 lected in heads about one inch in diam. 



