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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Eeect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Lithospermum 

 ofTicinale, 



Boraginace.e. 

 F. B. I. V. 175. 



Kashmir, 

 5-8,000 t. 



Arnebia 



hispidissima, 



Boraginace^. 



F. B. I. iv. 176. 



The Plains, Lahore. 



Baluchi^^tan 



(Boissier). 



Arnebia Griffithii, 

 The Prophet's 

 flower, 



PanjalKri, 



2)acjhambr-i-phul. 



Boraginace.^. 



F. B. I. iv. 176. 



The Plains, 



west of the Jhelum. 



Pindigheb. 



Fatehganj 



(Douie). 



Campbellpiir. 



Peshawar. 



Baluchistan 



(C. B Clarke). 



Arnebia Thomson!, 



Boraginace.f.. 

 F. B. Liv. 176. 

 Spiti Valley, 

 Ladakh. 



Arnebia tibetana, 



BoRAGINACEiE. 



F. B.L iv. 176. 

 Northern Kashmir, 

 7-12,000 ft. 



Petals united. 



medium size to large, perennial, roughl}^ hairy, leaves 

 2 by I in., oblong-lanceolate, roughly hairj^ nerves some- 

 what prominent, flowers I in., white turning yellowish, 

 on stalks | in., in racemes 1-4 in., bracts leaflike, smaller 

 upwards, nutlets shining white, smooth ; otherwise like 

 the last species. The seeds, lubis firmun, are used as a cure 

 for stone. 



small, annual or biennial, very roughly hairy as the 

 specific name implies ; leaves 2 by i in., lanceolate, hairs 

 white from prominent bases ; flowers ^ in., yellow, 

 nearW sessile, on one-sided spikes, 2-4 in. long, bracts 

 I'l in., linear, calyx lobes 5, linear, i in., stamens 5, in 

 some plants short, included in the corolla tube, in others 

 long, just protruding, style long or short, the inverse to 

 the length of the stamens ; nutlets 4, -^^-^-^ in., conical, 

 sharply pointed,* prominences on all sides. 



very like the last species, but a little larger, hairs 

 softer, calyx lobes ^-| in., corolla tube f-1 by |-| in., lobes 

 yellow with a brown spot at the base of each, fading during 

 the day, nutlets much larger, more triangular and blunter, 

 prominences on all sides. 



verj' like Arnebia hispidissima above, but often peren- 

 nial, softer, leaves narrowly olJong, bracts ol)long, blunt, 

 longer than the calyx, nutlets larger and smoother. 



very like the last species but hairs more bristly, 

 spikes longer, nutlets rougher, 



