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Plants of the Punjab. 



JIebbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margin Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



Blepheris edulis, 



ACANTHACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 479. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



Corolla one-lipped. 



very like the last, but larger with large leaves and 

 larger corolla. 



Teucrium 

 Royleanum, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Teucrium 



quadrifarium, 



Germander, 



Labiate. 

 F. B. I.iv. 701. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



large, stout, stem square, nearly round below, hairy ; 

 leaves 2-3 in., ovate or oblong-ovate, shortly-stalked, base 

 heart-shaped, short-pointed, toothed, often wrinkled ; 

 flowers I in. long, purple, sessile, in pairs on one side of 

 erect branching racemes, bracts | in., broadly ovate, 

 abruptly ending in a long point, hairy near the base, con- 

 cealing the flowers, red purple, calyx ^ in., upper lip round- 

 ed, 2 lower short-pointed or blunt, corolla 1 -lipped, upper 

 lip none, lower lip 5-lobed, long, broad, lateral lobes tooth- 

 like, short-pointed, terminal lobe broad, concave, stamens 4, 

 in unequal pairs, protruding from the corolla tube, style 

 undivided ; nutlets minute, wrinkled. 



Corolla two-lippbd. 



Stamens two. 



Bonnaya brachiata, 



Scrophulariace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 284. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 

 (Collett). 



small, erect or prostrate, rigid, annual, quite smooth ; 

 leaves |-1| in., oblong, blunt or short -pointed, sessile, 

 sharply deeply toothed ; flowers | in. long, white, spotted 

 or tinged with pink, bracteate, on short axillary slalks, 

 forming terminal racemes, calyx 5-lobed, segments Unear, 

 corolla 2-lipped, upper lip erect, undivided, lower broad, 

 3-lobed, stamens 2 only, as one pair are aborted, stigma 

 flat, 2-lobed ; capsule narrow, cylindric, much longer than 

 the calyx, seeds many, wrinkled. 



