Plants of the Punjab. 



411 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Saponaria va^caria, see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Silene tenuis, 



Lychnis 

 cachemeriana, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple,. 

 Entire. 



Holosteum 

 umbellatum, 

 Umbellate 

 Holosteum, 



Caeyophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 227. 

 Kashmir. 



small, annual, glandular, branched or unbranched, very 

 slender ; leaves -|-1 in., narrow, radical, oblong with round- 

 ed ends, stalked ; flowers | in. across, white or pale pink 

 in terminal umbel-like clusters, erect, few, minor flower 

 stalks half bent down after flowering, erect after fruiting, 

 bracts small, thin, sepals 5, white, blunt, petals 5, rather 

 longer than the sepals, stamens and styles 3-5 ; capsule 

 longer than the sepals, nearly cylindric, seeds many, black, 

 flattened, rough. • 



Cerastium vulgatum, see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Stellaria bulbosa, see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Saxifraga 

 diversifolia, 



Saxifragace^. 



F. B. I. ii. 393. 



Simla, Mashobra, 



Mahasu. 



The Ohor 



(Collett). 



Kashmir. 



small to medium size, perennial, glandular-hairy, stems 

 6-18 in., loafy ; leaves, radical ones crowded, long-stalked, 

 narrowed into the stalk or ovate, nearly heart-shaped, 

 stem leaves -|-2 in., sessile or stem-clasping, ovate or broad 

 oblong ; flowers | in. diam., yellow, in terminal flat-topped 

 clusters, calyx 5-lobed, lobes refloxed in fruit, glandular, 

 petals 5, glandular at bage, stamens 10, styles 2, diver- 

 gent, distinct ; capsule ovate-oblong. 2-beaked, seeds 

 many, minute, oblong with rounded ends, angular. 



Saxifraga miorantha, 



Saxigragacb^. 

 F. B. I. ii.394. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-11,000 ft. 

 Dharamsala 

 (0. B. Olarke). 



like the last species, but velvety, leaves toothed, 

 stem leafless with loaf-like bracts below the flower cluster, 

 flowers white, petals hardly longer than the calyx-lobes, 

 capsule smaller, seeds streaked by 10 or 12 rows of minute 

 projections. 



