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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Aneilema 

 nudiflorum, 



Petals ununited. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Aneilema 

 Hamiltonianum, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Cyanotis cristata, 

 Cyanotis barbata. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Juncus bufonius, 

 Toad rush, 



Juncace.e. 

 F. B. I. vi. 392. 

 The Plains to 

 13,000 ft., 

 in wet places. 



Polygala triphylla, 

 Milkwort, 



Polygalace^. 



F.B.Li. 201. 



Himalaj^a, 



4-8,000'ft. 



Simla, Syree 



(CoUett). 



Dharmpur. 



f?mall, annual, pale green, smooth, stems tufted, 

 slender, branched from the base upwards ; leaves bristle- 

 like, few, channelled above, base sheathing, pale ; flowers 

 |-J in. long, pale green in axillary or terminal clusters, 

 sepals 3, with a thickened midrib, long-pointed with a 

 broad thin margin, persistent, petals 3, like the sepals 

 but without the midrib, stamens 6 or 3, half as long as 

 the sepals, 6 in the open lateral flowers, 3 in the closed 

 terminal flowers ; capsule ovoid with a broad top, blunt, 

 pale, shorter than, and enclosed in the persistent sepals 

 and petals, seeds very minute, finely net-veined, tips 

 almost rounded. 



Petals united. 



small, annual, slender, smooth ; leaves |-2| in., 

 circular or oblong, contracted into the stalk, stalk often 

 wmged, membranous, smooth, blunt ; flowers | in., pink, 

 in slender many-flowered terminal racemes l-|-2 in., bracts 

 3, soon falling off, sepals 5, unequal 2 inner, petal-likej 

 in colour equal to the petals, 3 outer smaller, green, falhng 

 off after flowering, petals 3, unequal, united at the base, 

 2 upper small, the lowest (keel) longest, concave, 2-lobed 

 at the tip, not crested at the tip with a fringed brush, 

 stamens 8, united in two sets of 4 each, joined to the petals, 

 style long, incurved ; capsule y^-| in., 2-celled, round, 

 narrowly winged, membranous, seeds black, hairy, one 

 in each cell, prolonged at the base by 2 minute append- 

 ages. 



