Plants of the Punjab. 



541 



Prosteate Heebs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Teucrium 

 Scordium, 

 Water Germander, 



Labiate. 



F. B. I. iv. 702. 



Kashmir 



(Jacquemont), in 



wet places. 



Petals united. 



fetid, glandular, leaves |-1| in., oblong, blunt, ses- 

 sile, coarsely toothed, base wedge-shaped, flowers | in., 

 rose-purple in 2-6-flowered axillary' racemes, calyx ^ in., 

 shortly bell-shaped, base pouched, teeth triangular, nearly 

 equal ; for oth'^r characters see the last species. 



Petals none. 



Stellaria media, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Petals Ununited. 



Ammania peploides, see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite. Exstipulate, Simple, 



Petals Ununited. 



Trianthema 

 monogyna, 



Swet, sdbuni, 

 hishka'pra. 

 Ficoide^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 660. 

 The Plains. 

 Lahore. 



small : leaves |-1| in., ovate, with a broad tip, stalk 

 I in., dilated, membranous at the base ; flowers small, 

 solitary axillary, sessile, calyx tube short, thin, closely 

 sheathed by the base of the leaf, lobes 5, blunt with a 

 hard point, coloured within, petals none, stamens about 

 15 ; capsule i in., mitre-shaped, beak projecting, lower 

 part 3-5-seeded, style one, seeds kidney-shaped, black, 

 with undulating lines. 



Trianthema 

 crystallisna, 



Alettie. 

 Ficoide^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 660. 

 The Plains. 



hke the last species, but leaves rather smaller, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate with a broad tip or narrowed to both 

 ends, flowers densely clustered, calyx tube green with 

 flaany ribs not sheathed by the base of the leaf stalk, sta- 

 mens 5, capsule smaller, beak a circular corky flat disc 

 with a central depression, seeds 2, discoid, black. 



Trianthema 

 pentandra, 



Bishkapra, itsit, 

 narma. 



FiCOIDBiE. 



F. B. L ii. 660. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



like the last species, but perennial, woody, leaves 

 larger, flowers in sessile clusters, calyx lobes ovate, sta- 

 mens 5, beak of the fruit mitre-shaped, separating into 

 2 ono-seeded parts. This plant is used locally as an ab- 

 dominal astringent and as ecbolic. 



