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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Campanula arlstata, 



Campanulace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 441. 

 Himalaya, 

 11-16,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Pyrola rotundifolia, 

 Larger Wintergreen, 



Ericaceae. 

 F. B. I. iii. 475. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Acantholimon 

 lycopodiCides, 



Plumbaginace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 479. 

 North Kashmir, 

 11-14,000 ft. 



Statice cabulica, 



Plumbaginace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 480. 

 The Plains, west of 

 the Jhelum, 

 to 4,000 ft 

 Baluchistan. 



Eritrichium 

 strictum, 



small to medium size, annual, smooth, stem 8-24 in. ; 

 leaves, radical oblong, tapering equally at base and tip, 

 long-stalked, nearly entire, stem leaves 1^ by y'^"i i^'» 

 linear ; flowers | in., deep blue, soHtary, on a main stalk, 

 J-y'^ in., calyx teeth 5, ^ in. linear, corolla cone-shaped, 

 lobes 5, lobed half way down, stamens 5 ; capsule f by ^ 

 in., narrowl}^ oblong or nearly linear, contracted near the 

 top, opening by valves close to the top, seeds very small, 

 oblong with rounded ends. 



small, perennial, with short leafy stems and with 

 annual flower stalks, smooth ; leaves 1-2 in. diam., cir- 

 cular, or broadly ovate, or ovate wdth a broad tip, or nar- 

 rowed at both ends, stalk about equal to the blade in length ; 

 flowers I in. diam., white and pink, drooping, in many- 

 flowered racemes on stalks 6-8 in. long, calyx deeply 5- 

 lobed, persistent, lobes broadly ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 

 petals 5, I in. long, circular or ovate with a broad tip, 

 concave, sessile, stamens 10, style equal to or longer than 

 the petals, stigma 5-lobed ; capsule |-| in. diam., 5-celled, 

 crowned by the persistent style, seeds minute. 



small, prickly, densely tufted ; leaves 1 by ^V i^., 

 linear-lanceolate, crowded, needle-pointed ; flowers ^ in. 

 diam., rose-red, in branching spikes on many-flowered 

 radical stalks, bracts 3, leathery with transparent mar- 

 gins, calyx-tube ^-4- in., cylindric, 10-ribbed, smooth, 

 mouth widely funnel-shaped, petals 5, oblong or ovate with 

 a broad tip, united at the base with the stamens, stamens 

 5, opposite the petals, styles 5, distinct ; capsule within 

 the calyx, oblong or 5-angled, thin, seeds cylindric. 



small to medium size, annual ; leaves 1| by | in., all 

 radical, oblong, spoon-shaped ; flowers small, pink, nearly 

 sessile, scattered along the branches of a branching raceme 

 on a solitary, erect, radical flower-stalk, 12-36 in. long, 

 bracts | in., ovate or oblong, blunt with a large stiff point, 

 leather}'', margin thin, calyx with soft scattered hairs 

 without, calyx tube |-| in., very narrow, smooth at first, 

 funnel-shaped, with 5 ribs, in fruit only the 5 recurved 

 ribs remain, petals 5, oblong sponn-shaped, united below 

 with the stamens, stamens 6 opposite the petals, styles 5, 

 distinct ; capsule within the calyx, pblong, spindle shaped. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



