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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals united. 



Corolla two-lipped. 



Plttystemma 

 violoides, 



Stamens four. 



see Herbs, Unbianclied, Alternate; Exstipulate, Simple 

 Toothed. 



Stamens five. 



Lobelia trialata, 



Campaxulace.^. 

 F. B. L iv. 425. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 



Naldera (Collett). 



Caltha palustris, 



small to medium size, annual, smooth, stem 3-angled, 

 ringed ; leaves J-1 in., ovate or lanceolate, sharply toothed, 

 or round toothed towards the tip, base wedge-shaped, 

 entire, almost sessile ; flowers \-\ in., palc^ blue or white 

 on 1-flowered, slender axillarv stalks, calvx 5-toothed, 

 teeth linear, short-pointed, corolla 2-lipped, upper lip ^-fid, 

 lower 3-lobed, stamens 5, anthers united, tipped with 

 bristles, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule -i-|- in., 2-valved, seeds 

 flattened, blunt. 



Petals xoxe. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Acroglochin 

 chenopodioides, 



Chenopodium album, 

 White Goose-foot, 



Bathu, hinak. 

 Chexopodiact .ac. 

 F. B. I. V. 3. 

 The Plains to 

 12.000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



see Herbs, Erect, Altf^rnate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



medium size to large, pale green or mealy-white, stem 

 angled, often striped green, red, or purple ; leaves 1-2 in., 

 when cultivated often 4-6 in., stalked, lower ovate or oblong, 

 margins more or less grooved, toothed, or entire, angled 

 or lobulate, upper usually narrow, entire ; flovers minute, 

 green, sessile, clustered in short axillary simple or branching 

 clusters often forming large terminal ))ranching racemes. 

 sepals 3-5, keeled, petals none, stamens 1-5, styles 2-3, 

 seed vessels (utricles) mi'inbranous, contained in the per- 

 sistent sepals, seeds smooth. This plant is grown as a rain 

 crop, the seed is as nutritious as buck wheat, the leaves are 

 eaten as a pot herb. 



Chenopodium 

 Botrys, 



see Herbs. Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



