Plants of the Punjab, 



569 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Goldenia 

 proeumbsns, 



Trij)ungkhi. 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 144. 

 The Plains. 



small, annual, flat on the ground, rough, hairy ; leaves 

 1-1| m., oblong with rounded ends and ovate with a broad 

 tip, coarsely toothed, or almost pinnately divided ; flowers 

 I in., white, axillarj', sessile, upper sometimes in a one- 

 sided leafy spike, calyx 4-lobed, lobes narrow, corolla tube 

 open, short, 4 lobes overlapping in bud, stamens 4, on the' 

 corolla tube ; fruit an almost dry drupe consisting of 

 4 ])yrenes almost united, farming a pointed 4-ribbed 

 pyramid, one seed in each pyrene. 



Heliotroplum 

 supinum, 



Boraginace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 149. 

 The Plams. 



annual, prostrate, softly hairy, many branches, form- 

 ing a patch 12 in. diam. ; leaves |-1| in., oblong with 

 rounded ends or ovate ; flowers small, white, on short woolly 

 spikes, calyx I in., ovate, woolly, 5-lobed, corolla tubular, 

 throat not hairy, tube 5 in., ovate, lobes 5, spreading, 

 very small, round, stamens 5, on the corolla tube enclosed 

 within it ; fruit dry, 2-4-lobed, of 4 or less nutlets, ^ by |- 

 in., margins broad, smooth. 



Heliotropium 

 strigosum, 



Sajed bhangra, 

 chitiphul, gorakh 

 panu. 



Boraginace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 151. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 

 (Collet t). 

 Lahore, Dunera, 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks;. 



hke the last species, but perennial, covered with white 

 flat-lyino; hairs, stems tufted, spreading, leaves linear- 

 lanceolate This plant is used locally to cure poisonous 

 bites and stings, it is also used as a diuretic and laxative. 



Heliotropium 

 indicum, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Cynoglossum 

 Wallichii, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



