Plants of the Punjah. 



543 



Prostrate Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Boerhaavia 

 verticillata, 



Petals none. 



see Climbing Plants, Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate. 

 Simple. 



Peperomia reflexa, 



PiPERACE.i;. 



F. B. I. V. 99. 



Himalaj^a, 



east of the Sutlej, 



4-6,000 ft. 



Simla, below 



Annandale 



(Collett). 



small, perennial, velvety, stem 3-10 in., stout, densely 

 branched, tufted, leafy, branches rooting at the joints, 

 creeping ovf-r rocks and trees ; leaves | in., broadly ovate, 

 nearly sessile in circles of four ; flowers minute, green, 

 half sunk in the stem of the spikes, |-1 in., stalked, erect, 

 calyx none, stamens 2, stigma sessile minutely 2-lobed ; 

 berries one-seeded, not splitting. 



Prostrate Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Tridax procumbens, 



Composite. 

 F, B. I. iii. 811. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, perennial, hairy, weak,st raggling ; 

 leaves 1-2 in. long, ovate or lanceolate, pinnately divided, 

 deeply irregularly toothed ; flowers minute in heads, | in. 

 diam., on long solitary stalks, inner flowers tubular, outer 

 ligulate, bracts of head few, outer short, broad, green, 

 floor of head flat or convex, scales thin, shining, pappus 

 hairs short or long, feathery, shinmg, style-arms hairy ; 

 achenes top-shaped or oblong, silky, brown. 



Mazus surculosus, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate Simple, 



Petals none. 



Alternanthera 

 sessilis, 



Amarantace.^. 



F. B. Liv. 731. 



The Plains to 



4,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla, 



in wet places 



(Collett), 



small to medium size, nearly smooth, branching from 

 the base ; leaves 1-3 in., ovate or narrowly oblong, blunt, 

 rather fleshy, sometimes almost toothed ; flowers j^-jV in.., 

 white, in axillary, often clustered, heads ^-| in. long, sepals 

 5, unequal, smooth, stiff, anterior and 2 posterior flattened, 

 2 lateral innermost, concave, petals none, stamens 5, 

 anthers 2-3 ; fruit is an utricle, dry, flattened, winged, 

 enclosed by the persistent sepals, seed one, 



