Plants of ihe Punjab. 



447 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Opposite Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals unijnited. 



Sisymbrium 

 Wallichii, 



Sisymbrium Irio, 



Raphamis sativus, 



Saxifraga 

 odontophylla, 



Saxifraga sibirica, 



Androsace 

 rotundifolia, 



Adoxa 

 Mosehatellina, 



Valeriana ofTicinalis, 

 Valerian, 



Valerianace^. 

 F. B. Liii. 211. 

 Kashmir, 

 8-9,000 ft. 

 Sonamerg. 



Valeriana Jsesehkei, 



Valerianace.^. 

 F.B. Liii. 212. 

 HimalaA^a, 

 Lahnl. 



Valeriana Stracheyi, 



Vale r i a n a c e tr . 

 F.B. Liii. 212. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000." 

 Kashmii'. 



Bee Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Petals united. 

 see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



large, perennial, rootstock short, hardly thicker than 

 the stem, bearing runners, stems 12-36 in. high, nodes 

 minutelj'- hairy ; leaves pinnately divided, lobes narrowly 

 oblong or Hnear, sometimes toothed, leaves often long- 

 stalked ; flowers white or pink, in large loose flat-topped 

 branching racemes, bracts -^\ in., oblong-linear, persistent, 

 calyx lobes obscure in flower, forming in fruit 5-15 feathery 

 bristles joined below into a short wide funnel-shaped tube, 

 corolla tube funnel-shaped, lobes 5, spreading, stamens 3 ; 

 fruit oblong-lanceolate, not hairy, flattened, 5-ribbed, 

 1 -celled, 1-seeded, crowned by the persistent bristly? 

 feathered calyx. The root asarun is exported as a medi- 

 cine and a perfume. 



like the last species, but small, only 6-9 in. high, flower 

 clusters only 1 in. diam., flowers .small, radical leaves many 

 at flowering time. 



slender, velvety, rootstock woody, very stout, stem 

 6-12 in. high, radical leaves none at flowering time, pin- 

 nately divided but with a large rhomboid terminal lobe, 

 flower cluster dividing into straight slender spikes, fruit 

 covered with soft scattered hairs ; for other characters 

 see the last species. 



