Plants of the Punjab. 



241 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Triumfetta 

 rhomboidea, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Corchorus 

 acutangulus. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 

 Toothed. 



Geranium pratense, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 



Geranium collinum, 



Bee Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed, 

 Geranium Tuberaria, see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 



Geranium palustre 

 or grandiflorum, 



Peganum Harmala, 



Harmal. 



Zygophyllace^. 

 F. B. L i. 486. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Boissier). 



medium size, root perennial, stem and branches 

 annual, bushy, smooth, pale green ; leaves 2-3 in., much 

 divided, lobes or segments linear, short-pointed, stipules 

 bristle-like ; flowers |-f in. diam., white, solitary, sessile 

 or stalked in the axils of branches, sepals 4-5, linear, short- 

 pointed, persistent, usually longer than the petals, petals 

 4-5, oblong, nearly equal, soon faH'ng off, stamens 12-15, 

 bioad below, some without anthers, styles twisted, 2-3, 

 keeled above; capsule -i-| in. diam., depressed above, 

 lobed, splitting into 3 valves, seeds many, angled. A red 

 dye is obtained from the seeds and different parts of the 

 plant are used in Indian medicine. The alkaloids Harma- 

 line and Haimine are obtained from the seeds. 



Lourea vespertilionis, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. L ii. 154. 

 The Plains. 



small, annual, slender, stems finely downy ; leaves 

 f-1 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, divided into two equal linear 

 lobes, apex of each broadly notched and bristle-tipped, 

 rarely one leaflet on each side making a compound leaf, 

 side leaflets smaller, obUquely triangular with the point 

 inwards ; flowers |-f in., in simple or rarely branched 

 racemes, 3-6 in., cah'-x J in., bell-shaped, teeth anceolate, 

 equal to the calyx tube, petals 5, standard broad, keel 

 blunt, stamens 10, not all united, style thread-like, incurv- 

 ed ; pod smooth, veined, joints 4-5, and each one-seeded, 

 all included in the enlarged calyx. 



