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"Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Linum perenne, 



Linages. 



F. B. I. i. 411. 



Himalaya, 



9-13,000 ft. 



Lahul (Jaeschke). 



Baluchistan 



(Boissier). 



Petals ununited. 



medium size, perennial, stems many, leaves |-f 

 in., all lanceolate, or lower oblong blunt and upper linear 

 short-pointed, flowers 1 in. diam., blue, in few- flowered 

 racemes, sepals ovate with glandular margins, capsule 

 much larger than the white margined sepals ; otherwise 

 like the last species. 



Linum strictum, 



LiNACEiE. 



F. B.Li. 411. 



The Plains, 



1-6,000 ft. 



Peshawar, 



Rawalpindi, 



Baluchistan 



(Lace). 



small, annual or biennial, slender, smooth or slightly 

 velvety, leaves ^-| in,, linear, linear-oblong, or lanceo- 

 late, long-pointed, 1-nerved, flowers J-f in. diam., yellow, 

 shortly stalked in flat-topped terminal clusters, sepals 

 with long green rigid points, margins glandular, capsule 

 I in., round, much shorter than the sepals ; in other charac- 

 ters like the last species. 



Linum mysorense, 



LiNACEiE. 



F. B.Li. 411. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-5,000 ft. 

 Dharmpur. 



small, annual, smooth, slender, leaves |-| in., oblong 

 with rounded ends, or short-pointed, 8-nerved, flowers 

 I in. diam., yellow, in large branching flat-topped clusters 

 made up of one-sided racemes, sepals short, petals 

 longer than the sepals, stamens and styles united 

 below, stigmas round, capsule round, equal to the sepals ; 

 otherwise hke the last species. 



Crotalaria albida, 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Sedum Rhodiola, 



Crassulace^. 

 F. B. L ii. 417. 

 Himalaya, 

 12-17,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



small to medium size, rootstock perennial, thick, 

 smelling of roses, crowned with scales, stems thick ; leaves 

 |-1| in. long, ovate with broad tip or broadly oblong, 

 often toothed towards the tip, green with a waxy gloss ; 

 flowers small, male or female, yellow, in close terminal 

 often branched clusters, calyx 5, often 4-fid, lobes narrow, 

 oblong, petals 6, often 4, long in males, short in females, 

 stamens twice as many as the petals, long, projecting, 

 styles 5-4, short, j:ecurved in fruit ; carpels 5-4, -l- in. long, 

 not narrowed at the base, seeds many, oblong, with 

 rounded ends, flattened, 



