Plants of the Punjah, 



563 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate ^xstipulatb Simple Leaves, 



Petals ununited. 



gradually narrowmg to a blunt point, seeds almost in two 

 series at the base of the pod, one series towards the tip. 



Sisymbrium 

 foliosum, 



Portulaca oleracea, 



Heylandia latebrosa, 



Leguminos-e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 65. 

 The Plains. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



annual, silky, much branched ; leaves |-f in., ovate- 

 heart-shaped, unequal at the base, close set, almost sessile ; 

 flowers I'l in., yellow, solitary, nearly sessile in the axils 

 of most of the leaves, calyx top-shaped, teeth 5, lanceolate, 

 3 lowest deepest, corolla projecting far out of the calyx, 

 standard large, round, wings smaller, ovate, with a broad 

 tip, keel petals narrow, united behind, lessening into an 

 incurved beak, stamens 10, united in a tube, slit on the top ; 

 pod |-| in. long, silky, oblong, 1-2 seeded. 



Crotalaria prostrata, 



Leguminos^s;. 

 F. B. I. ii. 67. 

 The Plains to 

 6,000 ft. 

 Dharmpur, 

 Chenab Valley. 



perennial, stems zigzag, trailing, covered with silky 

 brown hairs, slender, 6-12 in. ; leaves |-1| in. long, oblong- 

 ovate, with a broad tip, sessile, blunt, pale, stipules none 

 or small ; flowers i in., yellow, in 2-4-flowered racemes, 

 twice the length of the leaves, calyx yVA "^-j densely red, 

 hairy, teeth 5, linear long, petals 5, hardly longer than the 

 calyx, standard steaked with red, stamens 10, all united 

 in a tube with a slit along the upper side ; pod | in. oblong, 

 smooth, seeds 12-18. 



Bupleurum 

 jucundum, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Hedera, Helix, 



see Chmbing Plants, Alt ernate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Commelina 

 nudiflora, 



COMMELINACB^. 



F. B. I. vi. 369. 

 The Plains. 



perennial, succulent, stems slender, creepmg, rootmg 



at the nodes; leaves l|-3 by ^-§ in., lanceolate, nerves 



parallel, bases sheathing ; flowers blue and white, in 



2 clusters, branches 1-3-flowered, stalk |-f in., emerging 



one at a time from a terminal complicate green spathe, 



ovate-lanceolate, §-1 in., sepals 3, thin, 2 inner often united 



at ihe base, petals 3, longer one larger, white or pale blue, 



often stalked, stamens 3 perfect, 2-3 imperfect ; capsule 



3-celled, 2 anterior cells 2-seeded, posterior one-seeded. 



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