Plants of the Punjab. 



525 



Prostrate Herbs with Opposite Stipulate Lobbd Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



f agonia Bruguieri, 



Damahan, dhama. 



Zygophyllace.s:. 



F. B. I. i. 425. 



Peshawar 



(Falconer) . 



Baluchistan 



(Hughes-Buller), 



Geranium 

 nepalense, 



Blianda. 



GERANIACBiE, 



F. B. I. i. 480. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Geranium pusillum, 



Small-flowered 



Geranium, 



Geraniace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 432. 

 Kashmir 

 (Falconer) 



Geranium 

 rotundifolium, 

 Round-leaved 

 Geranium, 



Gbraniacb^. 



F. B. I. i. 432. 



Himalaya, 



6-9,000 ft. 



Kashmir, Peshawa*, 



Ho^hiarpur, 



Balaohistan, 



like Fagonia arabica but lower leaves 3-lobed, upper 

 simple, branches prostrate, leaflets ovate, fleshy, young 

 branches almost 4-angled, grooved, spines longer than the 

 leaflets. This plant is used locally as a febrifuge and tonic. 



perennial, velvety or softly hairy, not glandular 

 stems 6-18 in., prostrate, spreading, branches rooting at 

 the swollen joints, rising ; leaves l|-3 in. diam., circular, 

 palmately 3-5-lobed, lobes equal or nearly so, irregularly 

 lobed, toothed, stipules \ in., narrowly lanceolate ; flowers 

 ^-f in., pale purple in pairs on axillary stalks, reflexed 

 after flowering, sepals 5, free, ending in a bristle-like tip, 

 almost as long as the petals, usually silky, petals 5, free, 

 shghtly notched, stalked, alternating with 5 glands, sta- 

 mens 10, 5 long alternating with 5 short, united at the 

 base, base of flower prolonged upwards in a persistent 

 5-grooved, tapering column, styles 5, imited to the column, 

 stigmas linear, simple, terminal ; capsule 5-lobed, 5-celled, 

 cells 1-seeded, at the base of the column, when ripe the cells 

 and the lower part of the styles separate from the column, 

 the styles coiling up with a jerk, ejecting the seeds, seeds 

 small, smooth. This plant is used as an astringent, the 

 root suppKes a fed dye. 



annual, very slender, velvety, 

 ed, leafy, glandular above, leaves 

 kidney-shaped, deeply 5-9-lobed, 

 lobed, stipules short, flowers \ 

 heart-shaped with a broad tip, har 

 point on the straight margin of 

 base, as are the stamens, capsule 

 for other characters see the last 



prostrate, much branch- 



|-1 in. diam., round, 



lobes wedge-shaped, 8- 



in., blue-purple, petals 



dly longer than the hard 



the sepal, bristly at the 



^ m. long, seeds smooth 

 species. 



almost erect with very slender spreading branches, 

 glandulaif-hairy, leaves \-\\ in. diam., kidney-shaped, 

 7-lobed, lobes b oad, bluntly lobulate, leaf stalks very 

 slender, flowers \ in. diam,, red, petals wedge-shaped, 

 entire, larger than the calyx, fruit f in. long, seeds deeply 

 pitted ; for other characters see the last species. 



