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Plants of ihe Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stimulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Abutilon graveolens, 



Barkanglii. 



Malvaceae. 



F. 6. L i. 327. 



The Plains. 



Gurgaon. 



Baluchistan 



(Masters). 



Abutilon Avicennse, 

 American Jute, 



Malvace^, 

 F. B. L i. 327. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Plumbago zeylanica, 



ChUrak. 



Plumbaginaceje. 



F. B. L i. 480. 



The Plains to 



5,000 ft. 



Giri and Sutlej 



Valleys (Collett). 



tCoti. 



dhoa Saidan Shah. 



Mator near Kahuta 



(Douie). 



Baluchistan 



(Boissier). 



Petals united. 



large, perennial, fresh leaves smell unpleasantly, 

 branches covered with velvety glands and hairs ; leaves 

 2-3| in., round-heart-shaped, sometimes lobed, abruptly 

 long-pointed, velvety on both surfaces, leaf -stalk almost 

 as long as the blade, stipules linear, sickle-shaped, 

 turned back, soon falling off ; flowers large, orange with 

 dark centre, pink and turned back when old, on axillary 

 and terminal stalks, as long as the leaf stalks, and 

 jointed above the middle, calyx of 5 sepals, ovate, long- 

 pointed, tubular below, densely velvety, petals 5, broadly 

 heart-shaped, united together below and with the 

 staminal-tube, staminal-tube dividing above into many 

 filaments, styles 20 or more ; fruit of 20 or more carpels 

 rounded, hairy, about equal in length to the calyx, which 

 is enlarged in fruit, not bristle-pointed, separating from the 

 central column, each carpel 2 or more seeded, seeds kidney- 

 shaped. The flowers open in the evening ; a fibre is ob- 

 tained from the stem ; the roots, leaves and seeds are 

 used as a demulcent. 



medium size, annual, leafy, softly felted, leaves 3-4 

 in., round-heart-shaped with a long point, leaf stalk 3 in. 

 long, flowers yellow, scarcely longer than the sepals on 

 solitary, axillary stalks 1 in. long, sepals nearly divided 

 to the base, ovate, short-pointed, staminal tube very short, 

 carpels 15-20, much longer than the sepals, oblong, hairy 

 or velvety with 2 long spreading bristles, seeds soft with 

 scattered hairs ; otherwise like the last species. This plant 

 supplies an excellent fibre. 



large, perennial, stems several, rambhng ; leaves 2-3 in., 

 ovate, shcrt-pointed, smooth, abruptly narrowed into 

 the stalk, leaf stalk | in., stem-clasping, stipules round, 

 flat, soon falling off ; flowers f in. long, bluish- white in 

 bracteate, often branched, glandular spikes, 4-12 in. 

 long, bracts ^ in., ovate, short-pointed, calyx ^-^ hj J^ 

 in., tubular, covered with stalked glands, 5-ribbed and 

 toothed, teeth very short, corolla flat-topped, circular, tube 

 fin. long, lobes 5, | in., nearly equal, round, spreading, 

 stamens 5, free from the corolla, opposite the lobes, dilated 

 at the base, anthers protruded, style one, slender, w^ith 5 

 branches above ; capsule thin, enclosed in the persistent 

 calyx, opening transversely near the base, seed onp. This 

 plant is used as a vesicant, also as a sudorific, and as a 

 poison. 



