Plants of the Punjab, 



531 



Prostrate Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Hypericum 

 elodeoides, 



Hypericace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 255. 

 Himalaya, 

 east of the Sutlej, 

 6-12. 000 ft. 

 Simla, Narkanda, 

 in shade (Collett). 

 Sirmur. 



Hypericum 

 napaulense, 



Hypericace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 256, 

 Himalaya, 

 7-8,000 ft, 

 Kashmir. 



medium size, perennial, stems 12-24 in., rounded, 

 smooth, with runners ; leaves 1-1|- in., oblong or ovate, 

 short -pointed, stem-clasping, lower surface pale, margins 

 black-dotted ; flowers | in. diam., yellow, in clusters, often 

 many and in branching terminal racemes, sepals 5, 

 I in., narrowly lanceolate, black-dotted, s'reaked, fringed 

 with stalked glands, petals 5, longer than the sepals, 

 black-do' ted, streaked, stamens many, in 3 bundles joined 

 below, black-dotted, styles 3, | in. ; capsule ^ in. opening 

 by 3 valves, seeds many, small, 



like the last species, but stems more slender, doubt- 

 fully 2-edged, leaves |-| in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 blunt, flowers | in., sepals fringed with shorter glands, 

 peal-! almost bare of glands, capsule | in. 



Saxifraga filicaulis, 



Saxifragace^. 



F. B. I. ii. 396. 



Himalaj^a, 



east of the Sutlej, 



9-12,000 ft. 



Matiana, Hattu 



(Collelt). 



Tillaea pentandra, 



CRASSULACEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 412. 



Himalaya, 



3-6,000 ft. 



Simla on rocks, old 



walls (Collett). 



Kashmir. 



small, perennial, no runners, stems very slender, 3-8 

 in., wiry, tufted, leafy, much branched, roughly velvety- 

 glandular ; leaves |-| in., linear, sessile, stiff, usually scat- 

 tered, fringed with glands, short-pointed ; flowers J-| in., 

 yellow, sohtary, terminal, calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes 

 glandular, erect in fruit, petals 5, stamens 10, styles 2 ; 

 capsule 2-beaked, seeds many, minute. 



small, annual, smooth, succulent, stems 2-4 in., several, 

 slender, procumbent, leafy ; leaves I in., narrowly lance- 

 olate, crowded, bases united, entire, short-pointed ; flowers 

 minute, pink or white, axillary, sessile, sohtary or in small 

 clusters, calyx 4-5-fid, segments lanceolate, lung-pointed, 

 petals 4-5, nearly equal in length to the calyx segments, 

 stamens 4-5 ; fohcles 4 or 5, 1-2-seeded, seeds oblong, 

 almo-^t triangular, pointed at the end, 



Tillaea 

 pharnaceoides, 



Crassulace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 412. 

 Th Plains, 

 Hoshiarpur 

 (Aitchison). 

 Peshawar (Vicary), 



very like the last species, but smaller, leaves less 

 crowded, flowers densely clustered, petals often united 

 at the base, shorter than the calyx segments, petals very 

 finely pointed, seeds blunt at the end. 



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