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Plants oj the Punjab. 



Prostrate Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Glossostigma 

 spathulatum, 



Scrophulariace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 288. 

 The Plains. 



Petals united. 



veiy small, smooth, creepmg, densely tufted, branches 

 rooting ; haves ^V-J in., narrowly spoon-shaped, tapering 

 into a stalk ; fiowe.-.s minute, blue, axillary, so itary on 

 slender stalks, shorter than the leaves, without bracteoles, 

 calyx oV ^' loiig' 3-lobed, bell-shaped, corolla tube shorter 

 than the calyx, lobes 5, nearly equal, stamens 2 ; capsule 

 equal lo calyx, seeds small, ovoid. 



Limosella aquatica, 



see Water Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Hemiphragma 

 heterophyllum, 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 



P. B. I. iv. 289. 

 Himalaya, 

 east of the Sutlej, 

 6-12,000 ft. 

 Hattu (CoUett), 



small, velvety, stem 12-24 in., creeping, very 

 slender, loosely tufted ; leaves on the stem, ^-f in. diam., 

 circular-heart-shaped, or ovate, or kidney-shaped, almost 

 sessile, thin, hairy on both sides, those on th - branches 

 -J^-l in., needle-like, forming tufts or heads, stiff, short- 

 pointed, face deeply grooved, back convex, bristly ; 

 flowers I in. diam., pink, axillary, usually sessile in 

 the tufts of the needle-like leaves, calyx lobes 5, narrow, 

 corolla I in. diam., tube short, slender, lobes 5, rounded, 

 spreading, nearly equal, stamens 4, on the base of the 

 corolla, equal ; fruit black, | in. diam., pohshed, ovoid, 

 fleshy, Seeds many, minute, ovoid, smooth. 



Veronica Angallis, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Stamens 2. 



Veronica 



Beccabunga, 



Brooklime, 



SCROPHULARIACEiB. 



P. B. I. iv. 293, 

 The Plains at 

 1,500 to 6,000 ft., 

 in wet places. 

 Rawalpindi, 

 in wet places. 



small, per. nnial, smooth or very slightly velvety, 

 succulent, stem hollow, branches 6-18 in., -preading ; 

 leaves 1-2 in., narrowed at both end ; or oblong blunt round 

 and sharp-toothed, base rounded, sessile or shortly stalk- 

 ed ; flowers ^ in. diam., blue or pink in few- or many flower- 

 ed axillar}^ racemes, 2-4 in., bracts usually shorter than 

 the flower stalks, calyx divided deeply into 4-5 lobes, 

 ovate, oblong, almost sharp-pointed, corolla wheel-shaped, 

 lobes 4-5, spreadmg, stamens 2, protruding ; capsule 2- 

 grooved, somewhat flattened laterally, swollen, round, 

 seeds biconvex. This plant is used in Kashmir medicine '. 

 in Europe it was valued as an antiscorbutic and is ao?f 

 used locally as a styptic. 



