Plants of the Punjab. 



551 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Stipulate Lobbd Leaves, 



Hydrocotyle 

 rotundifolia; 



Umbellifer^. 



F. B. I. ii. 668, 



The Plains to 



7,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(CoUett). 



Althaea Ludwigii, 



Malvace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 319. 

 The Plains. 



Hibiscus surattensis, 



Malvaceae. 

 F. B. I. i. 334. 

 The Plams, Delhi 

 (Koyle). • 



Polygonum 

 sinuatum, 



Polygonace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 44. 



Himalaya, 

 8-10,500 ft. 

 Kulu. 



Polygonum 

 capitatum, 



Polygonum 

 sagittatum, 



POLYGOXACEJS. 



F. B. I. V. 47. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-8,000 ft. 

 Kulu in rice fields. 



Petals ununited. 



like the last species, but leaves |-1 in., smooth, shia- 

 mg, 5-7-lobed, umbels small, bracts few, small, flowers 

 green- white, about 10 in an umbel. 



Petals united, 



small, annual, hairy, prostrate or ascending, leaves 

 deeply 5-7-lobed, lobes 3-fid, stipules free, soon falliug 

 off; flowers l-f in. diam., whitish, shortly stalked, few or 

 tufted, calyx 5-lobed, with a circle of 6-9 bracteoles, petals 

 5, twisted hi bud, united to the staminal tube, staminal 

 tube wath many filaments, styles as many as the carpels, 

 carpels many, 1 -seeded, seeds small. 



small, stem weak, trailing, with soft hairs, scattered 

 recurved prickles ; leaves palmately 3-5-fid, roundish, 

 long-stalked, lobes toothed, stipules leafy, broad ear- 

 shaped ; flowers yellow with a dark centre, on stalks equal- 

 ling the leaf stalks, bracteoles 5, linear with a spoon ap- 

 pendage, calyx persistent, 5-cleft, petals 5, united at 

 the base, with staminal tube ; capsule hairy, ovoid, seeds 

 downy. 



Petals none. 



small, annual, stem creeping, smooth, branches short, 

 erect, leafy ; leaves ^-1 in., pinnatifid, with lobes pohit- 

 ing back, end lobe .-smallest, oblong, short-pointed, leaf 

 stalk hort with stem-clasping lobe.i, stipule short, tubu- 

 lar ; flowers in solitary heads on axillary smooth stalks, 

 bracts ovate, blunt, calyx 5-cleft, petals none, stamens 

 7-8, styles 3, slender, united below ; nut minute, opaque, 

 rounded, 3-angled. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



s*ems 1-3 ft., pvostrate or nearly erect, smooth, squares 

 with mall, sharp, recurved prickles along the angles ; 

 leaves 1-2 in., stalked, linea -oblong, pointed, forked at 

 the base, stipules tubular, very short, smooth, flowers pink, 

 in a few small heads on slender distmctly prickly stalks, 

 bracts oblong, blunt, smooth ; nut 3-angled, enclosed in 

 the calyx. 



