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Plants of the Punjab, 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Portulaca oleracea, 

 Indian purslane, 



Kvlfa, lunak. 

 Portulace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 246. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Sargodha. 



Sida humilis, 



Malvace^. 



F. B. I. i. 323. 



The Plains to 



5,0C0 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Koti. 



Corchorus 

 Antichorus, 



Baphuli, Tiurand. 



Tiliace^. 



F. B. I. i. 898. 



The Plains to 



3,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



small, annual, smooth, succulent ; leaves ^-1| in., 

 flat, oblong-wedge-shaped or spoon-shaped, thick, pale, 

 and ghstening beneath, stalk very short, tip abruptly 

 terminated or notched, stipules minute, thin, or none ; 

 flowers small, yellow, solitary or clustered, terminal with 

 a circle of leaves, sepals 5, united below, petals 5, as long 

 as the sepals, very delicate, soon falling off, stamens 8-12, 

 style 3-5-fid ; capsule brittle, splitting transversely, seeds 

 many, dark brown, kidney-shaped. This plant is used 

 as a cooling, a demulcent, and a diuretic medicine. 



small, perennial, trailing, with star-shaped hairs ; 

 leave; |-2 in., broadly ovate or nearly circular, heart- 

 shaped, toothed, slightly hairy, stalks 1-2 in., stipules 

 soon falling off ; flowers | in. diam., pale yellow, axillary, 

 solitary or in pairs, distant or in loose racemes, stalks joint- 

 ed at or above the middle, calyx 5-angled, valvate, tubular 

 below, segments triangular, acute, petals 5, free above, 

 united below, longer than the calyx, broad, abruptly ter- 

 minated, staminal tube dividing into many anther-bearing 

 processes ; fruit enclosed in the persistent calyx, carpels 5, 

 shortly pointed with 2 horns, one seed in each carpel. 



i=mall, perennial, velvety with star-shaped hairs, root- 

 stock woody, branches tortuous, interlacing, 6-7 in. long ; 

 leaves |-f in. long, roundish, pleated, toothed, base 3-nerved, 

 shortly stalked, stipules free ; flowers small, yellow, on 1-2- 

 flowered short stout stalks, opposite to the leaves, sepals 

 4-5, petals 4-5, usually shorter than the sepals, stamens 

 many, style short, stigma shortly lobed ; capsule 1-1| in., 

 cylindric, 4-valved, beak entire, seeds many. This plant 

 is used as a demulcent. 



Reiinwardtia trigyna, see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Crotalaria prostata, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Crotalaria humifusa, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 67. 

 Himalaya, 

 east of the Sutlej, 

 4-6,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



small, perennial, hairy, stems slender, prostrate, 6-12 

 in. ; leave |-1 in., circular-ovate, nearly sessile, lower 

 surface densely red hairy, stipules small, awl-shaped ; 

 flowers ^ in. long, yellow, in loose 8-6-flowered racemes on 

 curved stalks 2-3 times as long as the leaves, calyx ^ in., 

 2-lipped, densely silky, teeth 5, linear, very long, the two 

 upper more or less united, petals hardly longer than the 

 calyx, upper petal (standard) circular notched, often with 



