Plants of the Punjab. 



457 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Viola cinerea, 



V10LACE.E. 

 KB. I. i. 185. 

 TliG Salt Range. 

 Baluchistan. 



Monsonia 

 heliotropioides, 



Geraxiace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 428. 

 The Plains west of 

 the Chenab. 

 The Salt Range. 

 Multan. 



small, shghtly powdery, smooth, stem 1-6 in., some- 

 times branched, leaves |-| in. oblong-ovate or lanceolate, 

 stipules leafy, fringed, flowers | in. diam., axillary, sepals 

 lanceolate, bristle-pointed, spur very short, stigma lateral 

 of 2 oblong disks ; for other characters see the last 

 species. 



small, annual, or with a woody rootstock, covered with 

 white hairs ; leaves ^-1 in. long, chiefly radical, ovate, 

 heart-shaped or rhomobid, minutely toothed, some- 

 times almost lobed, leatlier,y, densely silky, stalk longer 

 than the blade, covered with long white hairs ; flowers 

 j-^ in., violet or pink in umbels on erect slender main 

 stalks, 2-8 in. long, sepals 5, overlapping, oblong, ultimately 

 ovate with a broad tip and enlarged in fruit, petals 5, ovate 

 with a broad tip, alternating with. 5 glands, not longer 

 than the sepals, stamens 15, 5 opposite the petals ; cap- 

 sule 3 in. A\ith a very long beak of 5 one-seeded carpels, 

 carpels with 5 elastic tails, bearded on the inner side, sepa- 

 rate from the beak. 



Crotalaria 

 sessilillora, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Tephrosia tenuis, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B.I. h. 111. 

 The Plains. 



small, annual, stems thread-like, man}^ from the base, 

 with a fevr short hairs lying flat on the stem ; leaves 1-2 

 in. long, linear, narrowed suddenly and gradually at the 

 apex, nearly sessile, smooth above, somewhat silky beneath, 

 stipules minute, bristly, ascending ; flowers | in., 1 to 

 2 together in the axils of the leaves, stalks thread-like, 

 cah'X bell-shaped, teeth lanceolate, much shorter than 

 the tube, nearly equal, petals 5, dissimilar, long-stalked, 

 upper one (standard) broad, nearly round, side ones 2 

 (wings) oblong, keel petals 2, curved in, not beaked, stamens 

 10, style short, smooth, thread-like ; pod |-1 in. long, 

 linear, covered with a few flat-lying hairs, 6-10-seeded. 



Drosera Burmanni, 

 Sundew, 



AlukJia-jali. 

 Droserace^. 

 ■p. B. I.ii.424. 

 ijihe Plains. 



small, perennial, covered with sticky hairs ; leaves 

 I'll in. long, all radical, wedge-shaped ; flowers white 

 or pink, in racemes on 1 to 8 main stalks, 3-8 in. high, 

 the minor flower stalks erect in fruit, calyx of 4-8 persist- 

 ent lobes, minutely dotted with prominences, petals 4-8, 

 withering, persistent, stamens as many as the petals, 



