Plants of the Punjab. 



183 



Herbs, Ebect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Silene Falconeriana, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 Y. B. I. i. 220. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-9,000 ft. 

 Simla, on grassy 

 slopes (Collett). 



Petals ununited. 



large, peremiial, stems several from the woody 

 stock, branched, velvety and sticky below ; leaves ll-'2^ 

 in., linear-lanceolate, narrow, velvety or smooth, minute- 

 ly toothed ; flowers white, in loose opposite axillary clusters, 

 flower stalks slender, bracts minute, calyx | in., tubular, 

 narrow, teeth short, blunt, petals 5, very narrow, stalked, 

 blade blunt without scales, stamens 10, styles 3 ; capsule 

 ovoid, seeds minute, many, sides flat or convex, back 

 grooved. 



Saxifraga imbricata, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Epilobium 

 angustifolium, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Epilobium 

 latifolium, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Epilobium hirsutum, 

 Great Willow herb, 

 Codllns and cream, 



Onagrace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 583. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 



Kotgarh, Sutlej and 

 Giri Valleys in wet 

 places (Collett). 

 Shahpur Dist. 

 (Douie). 



Epilobium 

 parviflorum, 

 Hoary Epilobe, 



ONAGRAOEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 584. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-7,000 'ft. 

 Simla, Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). * 



large, robust, covered with soft white hairs ; leaves 

 1-3 by |-| in., lanceolate, stem-clasping, teeth small, sharp ; 

 flovN-ers I in. long, pink-purple, axillary, forming long 

 or short terminal leafy racemes, calyx tube on the ovary, 

 linear, 4-angled, teeth 4, short-pointed, falhng off after 

 flowering, petals 4, erect or spreading, notched, stamens 

 8, I in. long, alternate ones shorter, stigmas 4, distinct, 

 spreading ; capsule 2-3-| in., hairy, 4-celled, valves 4, split- 

 ting and curving down from the seed-bearing column, 

 seeds very many, small, crowned by a tuft of long silky 

 hairs. 



very like the last species, 

 curve down and the leaves arc 



but the stigmas do not 

 not stem-clasping. 



