Plants of the Punjab. 



869 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves, 



Petals ununited. 



Lepidium sativum, 

 Garden cress, 



Halim, shargundei. 

 Cruciferj]]. 

 F.B.Li. 159. 

 The Plains to 

 9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



small, annual, smooth ; leaves radical long stalked 

 twice pinnately divided, stem leaves sessile, pinnately 

 divided or lanceolate; flowers small, white, in long racemes, 

 sepals 4, erect, equal at the base, petals 4, stamens 6, 2 

 shorter ; capsules i in., ovate with a notch at the tip, 

 margins winged, seeds sohtary in each cell. A garden 

 crop. The leaves are eaten raw and the seeds used as 

 a cure for dysentery as they are very mucilaginous. 



Lepidium Draba, 



Bijindak. 

 Cruciper^. 

 F.B.Li.- 160. 

 The Plains. 

 Peshawar. 



medium size, perennial, velvety, branched or not, 

 stem zig-zag, leaves oblong, waxy and toothed, upper lobed 

 at the base, flowers in branching racemes, capsules ^ in. 

 triangular ; for other characters see the last species. This 

 plant is used as a pot herb and for fodder. 



Thlaspi arvensis, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Thlaspi 

 cardiocarpum, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Thlaspi alpestre, 

 Neslia paniculata, 

 Chorispora tenella, 



Sedum trifldum, 



Crassulace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 420. 



Himalaya, 

 6-12,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Dalhousie. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



small, perennial, smooth, rootstock woody with a 

 crown of scales, stems annual ; leaves 2-4 in., oblong, suc- 

 culent, sessile, 3-5-lobed, lobes spreading, unequal, J-1 in., 

 entire or toothed, blunt ; flowers I in. long in bud, white 

 or pale pink, stalked in branched leafy clusters, calyx 4-5, 

 lobed nearly to the base, lobes narrow-lanceolate, petals 

 4 or 5, linear-lanceolate, twice as long as the calyx lobes, 

 stamens twice as many as the petals ; follicles 4-5, many- 

 seeded, styles short, recurved in fruit, seeds oblong with 

 rounded ends, flattened. This plant grows on rocks and 

 trees ; it turns crimson when withering. 



