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Plants of the Punjab. 



Prostrate Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals ununited. 



Ammania 

 peploides, 



Lythrace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 566. 

 The Plains in wet 

 places. 



Ammania 

 rotundifolia, 



Lythrace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 566. 

 The Plains, in wet 

 places. 



Circaea lutetiana. 



small, annual, stems decumbent or erect, often rooting, 

 3-12 in., branches often squared ; leaves |-| in., narrow, 

 tapering at both ends, almost sessile, nerves prominent 

 beneath, entire ; flowers small, pinkish, axillary, solitary, 

 nearly sessile in the axils of reduced floral leaves, bracte- 

 oles 2, lanceolate, minute, calyx bell-shaped, long, teeth 4, 

 often pink, short-pointed, triangular in fruit, petals 4 or 

 none, small, between the calyx, stamens 2-8, on the calyx 

 tube ; capsule oblong with rounded ends, longer than 

 broad, thin, 2-valved, enclosed in the calyx, seeds many, 

 pink, somewhat angular. 



like the last species, but more prostrate, forming 

 patches, leaves circular, flowers sessile, bright pink in 

 crowded terminal spikes, petals ovate with a broad tip, 

 twice the length of the calyx teeth, capsule 4-valved. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Limeum indicum, 



FlCOIDE^. 



F. B. I. ii. 664. 

 The Plains. 



Tillsea pentandara, 



Wahlenbergia 

 gracilis, 



Galium 

 rotundifolium, 



EUBIACE^. 



F. B. I. iii. 204. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett), 



small to medium size, glandular, branches 8-18 in., 

 much divided ; leaves J-| in., round, prolonged into the short 

 stalk ; flowers ^ in., green, in bracteate sessile clusters at 

 the nodes, sepals 5, ^ in., ovate, green with thin margins, 

 petals 3-5, ovate with a broad tip, stalked, upper margin 

 fringed, much shorter than the sepals, stamens 6-7 ; fruit 

 separating into 2 leathery roundish cocci, as long as the 

 sepals, seeds kidney-shaped, longer than broad, flat- 

 tened, smooth, whitish. 



Petals united. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Petals Ununited. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 

 Toothed. 



perennial, smooth or velvety, stems and branches 

 trailing on the ground ; leaves |-2 by ^-f in., ovate, or 

 narrowed to each end, upper surface hairy or velvety, 

 lower minutely prickly on the nerves and margins 8-nerved 

 from the base ; flowers minute, white tinged with green 

 or yellow, in terminal branching racemes, longer than the 

 leaves, calyx tube round or ovoid, corolla wheel-shaped, 



