Plants of the Punjab. 



571 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Convolvulus 

 arvensis, 



Petals united. 



see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Evolvulus alsinoides, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple^, 



Entire. 



Cyanotis cristata, 



COMMELINAOE^. 



F. B. I. vi. 385. 

 Hilly districts to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). 



stems 6-18 in., slender, creeping, rooting, smooth or 

 hairy, branches leafy ; leaves 2-4 by |-| in., ovate, oblong, 

 sessile ; flowers blue, in short clusters within 2 series 

 of overlapping green, sickle-shaped bracts, petals and 

 stamens protruding, clusters terminal sessile, 2 or 3 

 together, sepals 3, green, lanceolate, almost equal, joined 

 below, petals 3, spreading round, almost equal, stalks 

 joined in a tube, stamens 6, bearded ; capsule | in,, blunt, 

 3-celled, 2 seeds in each cell, seeds pitted, streaked. 



Cyanotis barbata, 



Commelinace^. 

 p. B, I. iv. 385. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir, 



hke* the last species, but often tufted, leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, flowers dark blue, clusters hairy, axillary as 

 well as terminal, capsule 4-angled. 



Cyanotis axillaris, 



Soltarj, hagha-nulla. 

 Commelinace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 388. 

 The Plains. 



like the last species, 

 the axils of the leaves. 



but larger, stouter, flowers in 



Andraichne 

 telephoides, 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 284. 



The Plains, 



west of the Jhelum. 



The Salt Eange. 



Baluchistan 



(Stocks), 



small, perennial, root woody, stems very many, pros- 

 trate, 8-12 in., slender, leafy ; leaves ^-| in., oblong with 

 rounded ends, ovate with a broad tip, sessile, leathery ; 

 flowers -^-^ in. diam., on stalks shorter than the leaves, 

 male flowers clustered in the axils, female solitary, males, 

 calyx 5-6-lobed, petals 5-6, small, lanceolate, disk 

 glands twice as many or as many, 2-lobed, alternating 

 with the petals, females, calyx larger, petals minute 

 or none, styles short, 2-fid ; capsule -f^o—| in. diam., round, 

 depressed, 3 cocci, seeds curved, wrinkled. 



