Plcuits of the Punjab. 



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UNBRANCHED HERBS. 

 Herbs, Unbranghed, with OrposixE Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Monsonia 

 heliotropioides, 



see Herbs, Erect, Unbranchcd, Alternate, Stipulate. 

 Simple. 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Opposite Stipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Aichemilla vulgaris, 

 Lady's Mantle, 



Rosacea. 

 F. B.I.ii. 360. 

 Kashmir, 

 8-9,000 ft. 



small to medium size, covered with silky hairs, root- 

 stock perennial, creeping, stem 6-18 in,, unbranched ; 

 radical leaves 2-3 in. diam., circular heart-shaped, 7-9- 

 lobed, basal lobes overlapping, leaf stalks 6-18 in., stipules 

 united into a funnel-shaped tube with short broad spread- 

 ing toothed lips ; flowers -|- in. diam., yellow-green, in loose 

 or crowded flat-topped clusters, calyx 4-5-lobed, petals 

 none, stamens 1-4, on the mouth of the calyx ; achenes 1-2, 

 enclosed in the membranous calyx-tube. 



Mollugo nudicaulis, 



Ficoide^. 

 F. B. L ii. 664. 

 The Plains. 



small, amiual, smooth, slender, stems many, leafless, 

 scapes rising from a tuft of radical leaves ; leaves 1-2 in., 

 oblong, blade prolonged, tapering to the base, stipules soon 

 falling off ; flowers green, in clusters on branching stalks, 

 sepals 5, jL in,, oblong or oval, with thin margins, point 

 blunt, petals none, stamens 3 or 5, stigmas 3, very small ; 

 capsule j^j in., round, many-seeded, seeds minute, black, 

 netted, shining, a small process at the hilum. 



Polygonum 

 islandicum. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 



Elatostemma 

 surculosum, 



Urticeac^. 

 F. B. L V. 572. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-7,000'ft. 

 Simla, on damp 

 rocks (Colleti). 



small, annual, stems 2-8 in., slender, tufted, weak ; 

 leaves |-1 in., lanceolate, sessile, few, lower entire, upper 

 toothed towards the tip, each leaf with a small oblong one 

 opposite, which is often defloxcd, stipules minute, cysto- 

 liths many ; flowers minute, green, one sexual, inteimixod 

 with minute bractleoles crowd(^d in axillary, fleshy heads 

 J^ in. diam., saucer-like, bordered by a circle of bracts, 

 male and female on the same or different plants, male, 

 sepals 4-5, stamens 4-6, female, sepals 3, unequal, persist- 

 ent, stigma of a sessfle tuft of hairs ; achenes ovoid, flat- 

 tened. 



