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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Ex&tipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Pbtals united. 



Echinospermum 

 barbatum, 



Boraginace.^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 163. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-12,000 ft. 



like the last species, but leaves oblong, |-2 in., ra- 

 cemes longer, bracts smaller, usually none at the top o: 

 the racemes, calyx lobes -^^ in., oblong, nutlets -^\-l in., 

 forming a pyramid of which the nutlets can be separated, 

 2 rows of hooked bristles on the margins. 



Eritrichium strictum, 



Boraginace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 164. 

 Himalaya, west of 

 Sutlej, 7-18,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



small, perennial, rootstock woody, stems many, 

 Vv'hite silky, stiff ; leaves 1| by ^ in., linear, lower stem 

 leaves larger, hardly stalked, radical leaves stalked, 

 withered when flowering; flowers Jin. diam., blue, on stalks 

 |-| in., in branched racemes, 1-3 in., bracts minute in the 

 upper part of the racemes, calyx lobes 5. oblong, corolla 

 tube short, throat with 5 scales, lobes 5, blunt, spreading, 

 stamens 5 in corolla tube ; nutlets 4, erect, y'^-To^^-' PJ^'^" 

 midal, margins thin with the minute hooked bristles which 

 are united at their bases, apices of most nutlets divided, 

 hooked. 



Eritrichium 

 basifixum, 



BoraginacejE. 

 F. B. L iv 

 Himalaya, 

 13-15,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



165. 



annual, stems one or two, leaves | by | in., broadly 

 lanceolate, ^^^th long weak hairs, sessile, lower tufted, upper 

 apart, flowers purplish blue, racemes 1 

 bracts, ^ in. long, nutlets 

 like the last species. 



i m. 



with 



many 



1 ■> 



in., thin, smooth ; otherwise 



Rochelia stylaris, 



BoRAGINACE^. 



P. B. L iv. 166. 

 The Plains above 

 1,000 ft. 

 Kashmir Valley. 



small, annual, with long weak hairs pressed to the 

 plant surface ; leaves 1 by ^ in., narrowly oblong, pro- 

 longed into the very short stalk ; flowers ^ by jo in., blue 

 or white, on stalks bent down in fruit, in racemes 2 to 12 in. 

 long when fruiting, bracts leaflike, smaller upwards, calyx 

 lobes 5, linear, y'^ in., in fruit J in., corolla tube with or 

 without scales, lobes 5, small, spreading, stamens 5 within 

 the corolla tube, style much longer than the nutlets : 

 nutlets 2, white, rough with minute processes. 



Bothriospermum 

 tenellum, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



