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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Swertia alternifolia, 



GENTIANACEiB. 



F. B. I. iv. 128. 

 Himalaya, 

 11-12,000 ft. 

 The Chor (Collett). 



Heliotropium 

 zeylanicum, 



Boraginace>e. 

 F. B. I. iv. US. 

 The Plains. 



Heliotropium 

 dasycarpum, 



Boraginaceje. 



p. B. I. iv. 148. 



N.-W. F. Province. 



Peshawar 



(Stewart). 



Baluchistan 



(Boissier). 



Heliotropium 

 Eichwaldi, 



Nilkattei, hithua. 



BoRAGINACBiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 149. 

 The Plains. 

 Kashmir, Srinagar, 

 Baluchistan 

 (Lace). 



Petals united. 



medium size to large, rootstock only perennial, 

 stems angled, hollow, \ in. tliick ; leaves 5 by 2 im, radi- 

 cal, long-stalked, stem leaves oblong-lanceolate, 'stem- 

 clasping ; flowers IJ in. diam., bright grey, sometimes 

 said to be yellow, in branching racemes, sepals 5, | by 

 ^ in., ovate, short-pointed, toothed, corolla lobes 5, | by 

 i in., oblong, narrowed to the base, short-pointed, 2 

 glandular depressions at the base of each lobe, long-fringed, 

 stamens 5, style short, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule §-| by 

 I in., sessile, oblong, seed ^ in. diam., smooth. 



medium size to large, annual, roughl}^ hairy ; leaves 

 H by ^ in., narrowly-lanceolate, sessile, nearly entire ; 

 flowers ^ in. diam., white, sessile in long bractless one-sided 

 spikes 2-6 in., often brandling in twos, curled up as it 

 lengthens ; flowers 1-2-ranked, calyx 5-lobed, lobes -Jg 

 in., ovate, short-pointed, corolla tube | in., wider above, 

 minutely bristly without lobes .5, y'^r in., . spreading, long- 

 pointed, stamens .5 on the corolla tulje, short, style longer 

 than the stigma, stigma short, oblong, very hairy, not 

 protruding ; fruit ^2" i^v of 2 wrinkled pitted 2-seeded 

 nutlets. 



small to medium size, perennial, woody, stiff, rough- 

 ly hairy, leaves f by | in., wedge-shaped at both ends, 

 nearly entire, sessile, flowers i in., whitish in short few- 

 flowered spikes, calyx lobes y'^ in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 corolla I in., cyhndric. stamens longer than those' of the 

 last species, style short, stigma rough, fruit small, some- 

 times silky ; for other characters see the last species. 



small, perennial, woody, branching from the base, 

 softly hairy, leaves |-1| in., ovate with a broad tip or 

 oblong with rounded ends, silky, nearly entire, stalks |-1 

 in., flowers ^ in., in 2 ranks on dense bractless spikes, 

 2 in. long, calyx lobes rY-in., ovate-lanceolate, hairy, nar- 

 row, not covering the fruit, corolla lobes slightly toothed, 

 small, round, style short, nutlets -i^ in., not spreading, 

 forming an ovoid 4-pointed mitre-like fruit with a small 

 hole at the top ; for other characters sec the last species. 

 The leaves are applied to the bites and stings of rabid 

 animals, snakes and scorpions, to ulcers, and used for their 

 emetic action. 



