Plants of the Punjab. 



565 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Exstipulatb Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. ' ' 



Polygala ehinensis, 

 Common Indian 

 Milkwort, 



Meradu. 



Polygalace.e. 



F. B. I. i. 204. 



The Plains to 



5,000 ft. 



Simla, in valleys 



(CoUett). 



small, annual, stout, leafy, stems usually lying along 

 the ground, 3-10 in. long ; leaves |-2 in. long, round-oblong 

 to narrow-linear, thick, leathery, stalks very short ; flowers 

 I'l in., long, yellow, straight or drooping, in short crowded 

 axillary racemes, bracts 3, sepals 5, unequal, outer -epals 

 ovate, small, green, 2 inner (wings) very obhque, much 

 larger, short-pointed, yellow, finely veined, petals 3, un- 

 equal, united at the base, 2 upper small, lowest (keel) 

 longest, concave, tip lobed, crested with a finely divided 

 fringe, stamens 8, united in 2 sets of 4 each, joined 

 to the petals, style long, incurved ; capsule ovate, notched, 

 fringed, narrowly wmged, 2-celled, enclosed in the calyx, 

 seeds appendaged, one in each cell. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Filago germanica, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Anaphalis cuneifolia, see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Petals United. 



Anaphalis contorta, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Lasiopogon lanatum, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 287. 

 The Plains west of 

 the Indus. 

 Peshawar. 



minute, annual, densely woolly, much bianched, 

 branches from the root filiform, lying flat on the ground, 

 whole plant 1-2 m. diam., looks like a cluster of woolly 

 balls, leaves and flowers hidden m the wool ; leaves -/^-^ in., 

 hnear-oblong or spoon-shaped ; flowers ver}'' minute in 

 heads, round, woolly clusters surrounded by the floral 

 leaves, bracts of heads linear, blunt, thin, floor of head 

 small, naked, pappus feathery. 



Gnaphalium 

 pulvinatum, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iU. 289. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



small, annual, woolly, branches many, spreading from 

 the root, lying on the ground ; leaves small, spoon-shaped, 

 narrowed into a short stalk ; flowers yellow, mmute, in 

 heads -^ in. diam., buried in the wool m the axils of crowded 

 terminal leaves, bracts of heads linear, slender, recurved, 

 green with sharp transparent tips, corollas outer 3-4-tooth- 

 ed, inner 5-toothed ; achenes slender, oblong, pappus hairy 

 in one series, soon falling off. 



