660 



Plants of the Punjab. 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals none. 



Polygonum 

 dumetorum, 



Rumex scutatus, 



Polygonace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 60. 

 Himalaya, 



1-8,000 'ft. 

 Simla, in fields 

 (Collett). 



see Climbing Herbs, Alte nate, Stipulate, Simple. 



medium size, perennial, stem creeping below, branched, 

 branches slender ; leaves 1-2| by |-2 in., broadly triangular, 

 long-pointed, base sometimes forked, lobes narrow or almost 

 linear, stipules tubular, not fringed ; flowers small, green 

 often turnmg red, in small circular distant clusters, form- 

 ing terminal branching racemes, often dense in fruit, calyx 

 6-parted, stamens 6, fruiting, calyx-lobes circular, pmk, 

 not fringed, notched at both ends, styles 3, stigmas fring- 

 ed ; nut brown, sharply 3-angled, enclosed in 3 enlarged 

 finely net veined fruiting sepals. 



Elatostemma sessile, 



Urticace-e. 

 F. B. I. V. 563. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla, the Glen 

 (Collett). 



root perennial, stems unbranched, 12-24 in. long, 

 rooting towards the base, often bent at the joints, creep- 

 ing ; leaves 6 by 3 in., ovate-lanceolate, sessile or nearly 

 so, sides unequal, coarsely toothed, tip ending m a slender 

 tail-hke point, stipules lateral or intrapetiolar ; flowers 

 green, minute, one sexual, mixed with minute bracteoles, 

 on the surface of axillary fleshy saucer-like heads, |-| in. 

 diam., sometimes 2 or 3 together, male flower sessile with 

 bracts, calyx 4-5-parted, stamens 4-5, female flowers stalk- 

 ed, no bracts, calyx 3-parted, lobes unequal, persistent 

 stigma of a sessile tuft of bans. 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Stipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Geranium 

 rotundifolium, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 



Hydrocotyle 

 javanica, 



Umbellifer^. 



F. B. L ii. 667. 



Himalaya, 



2-6,000 ft. 



Valley below Simla 



(Collett). 



small, perennial, growing in wet places, stems pros- 

 trate, rooting at the joints ; leaves 1-3 in across, circular, 

 rough, bristly, deeply notched at the base, 7-lobed, round- 

 toothed margin, long-stalked, stipules small, thm ; flowers 

 yellow-green, mmute, 30-40 in a round umbel, bracts none, 

 calyx tei th none, petals 5, stamens 5 ; fruit orbicular or 

 oblong, flattened, very small. 



