670 



Plants of the Punjab, 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Asperago 

 procumbens, 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 166. 



The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Bawalpindi. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks), 



Bothriospernum 

 tencllum, 



BORAGINACE-S!. 



P. B. I. iv. 167, 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 



rough, hairy, spreading, stem angled, angles beset 

 with minute recurved prickles ; leaves 1-2| in., oblong, 

 spoon-shaped, nearly entire ; flowers I in. diam., purplish 

 blue or white, axillary, almost sessile, solitary or paired, 

 calyx bell-shaped, 5-fid, stiff, lobes in flower ^\ in., oblong, 

 calyx in fruit | in. diam., net-veined, lobes large, tri- 

 angular, corolla tube short, mouth closed with 5 scales, 

 lobes 5, overlapping in bud, blunt, spreading, stamens 5 ; 

 nutlets 4, |-^ in., erect, laterally flattened, smooth, stony. 



weak, annual or biennial, rough, hairy, prostrate, 

 12-24 in. ; leaves 1 by ^-| in., ovate-lanceolate, lower 

 stalked ; flowers small, white, axillary, stalked, the upper 

 passing into a raceme with bracts, calyx 5-partite, lobes 

 narrow, hardly enlarged in fruit, |-^ in., lanceolate or 

 hnear, corolla | in. diam., tube short, throat with 5 scales, 

 lobes 5, blunt, spreading, stamens 5, enclosed in the tube ; 

 nutlets 4, gV-yV in., no angles, roughly granular, scar on 

 the inner face, nearly half the length. 



Oastrocotyle hispida, ^ee Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Arnebia 

 Mspidissima, . 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Arnebia Griffitlui, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Arnebia Thomsoni, 



Ipomsea Batatas, 

 Ipomsea aqautica, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



*see Water Plants, Alternate, Ex-^tipulate, Simple. 



E. B. I. iv. 217. 

 The Plains. 



Calystegia hederacea, annual, smooth, prostrate in cultivation, chmbing in 



€oNVOLVULACEiB. bushos ; leaves 1-3 in., heart-shaped or arrow-head-shaped, 



entire or lobed ; flowers 1 in., pink purple, nearly bell- 

 shaped, on one-flowered stalks, 2 in. long, bracts 2, 

 ^ in. ovate, enclosing the calyx, persistent, calyx deeply 

 5-lobed, lobes | in., oblong, blunt, smooth, inner smaller, 

 corolla 5-lobed, lobes 5-plaited, almost entire, stamens 5, 

 on the tube and enclosed in it, style thread-like, stigmatic 

 lobes 2, oblong; capsule ^ in., ovoid, smooth, almost 

 pointed, seed smooth. 



