Plants of the Punjab. 



485 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals united. 



Onosma echioides, 



Ratanjot, laljari, 

 Tcoame. 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 178. 

 Kashmir, 

 5-9,000 ft. 



Onosma Thomsoni, 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 178. 



Kashmir, 



6,000 ft. 



Banahal (Thomson), 



small to medium size, biennial, hairy, stems 8-20 in., 

 leaves oblong, stem leaves 2| by | in.; flowers | in., yellow, 

 in one-sided, often forked, racemes, 1-6 in., bracts |-1 in., 

 leaf-Hke, calyx 5-lobed, lobes | in., narrowly oblong, in 

 fruit 1 in. long sometimes, corolla J in. diam. at the top, 

 smooth Tvithout, tubular, lobes 5, very short, stamens 5, 

 attached near the middle of the corolla tube, linear, style 

 longer than the stamens; nutlets 4, I -I in. long, stony, 

 shining, white, smooth, often speckled. The root supplies 

 a red dye for wool and is used for skin diseases, the leaves 

 are used as alteratives, the flowers as a cardiac tonic. 



like the last species, but perennial, leaves linear, white- 

 woolly beneath, racemes small, bracts | in., linear, calyx 

 not enlarged in fruit, nutlets smaller. 



Onosma bracteatum, 



Gaozaban. 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 178. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-9,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Verbascum Thapsus, 

 Great Mullein, 



ScROPHULARIACEiB. 



F. B. I. iv. 250. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-11,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 

 (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Striga lutea. 



Striga euphrasioides, 



like the last species, but stems much shorter, leaves 

 much larger, lanceolate, rough above, silky white beneath, 

 racemes short, round, calyx lobes enlarged in fruit to 1 in., 

 flowers purple, nutlets rough. There is some doubt whether 

 the gaozahin of the bazaars which comes from Persia is 

 obtained from this plant, possibly the leaves are from 

 on" species and the flowers from another, it is much used 

 in Indian medicine as a demulcent and alterative. 



large, densely covered with soft, yellow-grey star- 

 shaped hairs, stem 3-6 ft., stout, winged with the pro- 

 longed leaf-bases ; leaves, radical and lower 4-12 in., 

 stalked, ovate, upper 6-18 in., sessile, oblong-lanceolate ; 

 flowers |-1 in. diam., yellow, nearly sessile, crowded in 

 terminal woolly spikes, bracts longer than the flowers, 

 calyx 5-lobed, lobes overlapping, corolla concave, woolly 

 outside, tube very short, lobes 5, spreading, nearly equal, 

 broad, blunt, stamens .5, 3 short, hairy, 2 longer, smooth, 

 style-top dilated, stigma simple ; capsule ovoid, felted, 

 seeds many, wrinkled, not winged. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Corolla 2-lipped, Stamens 4. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple; 

 Corolla 2-lipped, Stamens 4, 



