Plants of the Punjah. 



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Herbs, Eeect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals ununited. 



Chorispora tenella, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Impatiens 

 Balsamina, 

 Balsam or 

 Touch-me-not, 



G'ulmendi, iipliar. 

 Geeaniace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 453. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Valleys below 

 Simla (Collett). 



small to medium size, annual, succulent, velvety ; 

 stems usually hollow, joints more or less swollen ; leaves 

 1|-2| in., narrowly lanceolate, stalked, narrowed to the 

 base, deeply toothed, stalk glandular ; flowers | in. 

 long without the spur, pink or nearly white, soli- 

 tary on axillary, usually clustered stalks, sepals 3, 

 2 upper small, flat, usually green, the lower forming the 

 lip, much larger, petal-like, more or less tubiflar, produced 

 at the base in a hollow spur, | in. long, curved, slender, 

 cylindric, petals 3, upper broad, somewhat concave, tipped 

 with a small green point, 2 lower smaller, forming ^dngs, 

 deeply 2-lobed, stamens 5 clasping the ovary, anthers 

 round the 5-toothed sessile stigma ; capsule |-| in. oblong 

 narrowed at both rounded ends, densely felted or woolly, 

 bursting open when ripe, touched or not, by 5 valves 

 which curl up and jerk away the many small rounded seeds. 

 This plant is much cultivated for its beauty. It is emetic 

 and purgative in its action. 



Impatiens racemosa, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, Tooth- 



ed. 



Impatiens 

 braehycentra, 



ed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, Tooth- 



Sedum Rhodiola, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Sedum 

 heterodontum, 



CRASSULACEiE. 



F. B. I. i. ii. 417. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-14,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



small to medium size, rootstock perennial with a crown 

 of scales, stems annual, leafy ; leaves 1-1| in. long, base 

 ovate, deeply toothed, overlapping, base broad, sessile, 

 heart-shaped or forked, margin white ; flowers small, pink, 

 in terminal compound clusters, calyx 4-5-lobed, lobes 

 narrow, oblong, petals 4-5, much longer than the calyx lobes, 

 stamens 10-8, long protruding, styles short, 4-5 ; follicles 

 4-5, seeds many, oblong with rounded ends. 



Sedum tibeticum, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



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