Plants of the Punjah. 



575 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Cotula aurea, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 316. 

 The Plains, 

 Peshawar. 



Rhagadiolus 

 Hedypnos, 



Calystegia 

 hederacea, 



Solanum 

 xanthocarpum, 



Veronica 

 hederaefolia, 

 Ivy speedwell, 



Scrophulariace^, 

 F. B. I. iv. 294, 

 Kashmir, 

 6,000 ft. 



small, aminal, nearly smooth, stems 2-4 in., lying, 

 down from the root ; leaves 1-3 in,, pinnately divided, 

 segments very finely divided and sub-divided or entire ; 

 flowers yellow, m axillary and termmal stalked heads, ^-| 

 in. diam., bracts of the head broadly oblong, floor of 

 head naked, corollas flattened, lobed at the base, walls very 

 thick below, mouth 4-lobed, i)appus none ; achenes oblong, 

 flattened, striated. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



annual, hairy, branches many, 6-18 in. ; leaves i-| 

 in. diam., circular ovate, 5-7-lobed, stalked, stalk short, 

 widened upwards, lobes rounded ; flowers ^ in. diam., pale 

 blue, on sohtary axillary stalks, opening one after the 

 other as the branch lengthens, stalks equal to the leaves 

 in length, calyx 4-5-partite, lower segments united, heart- 

 shaped, bristly, long-pointed, extending beyond the corolla, 

 thin, corolla w^heel-shaped, lobes 4-5, spreading, stamens 2, 

 projecting out of the corolla tube ; capsule 2-grooved, lobes 

 round or flattened, seeds one to many, large, black, 

 wrinkled, nearly round with a deep pit on the inner side. 



Petals none. 



Chrysosplenium 

 tenellum, 



Saxifragace^. 

 F. B. Lii. 401, 

 Himalaya, 

 9-10,000 ft. 

 Baghi, Mar ah, 

 on wet rocks 

 (Collett). 



Amarantus 

 tenuifolius, 



annual, dehcate, smooth, stems thread-like, 1-3 in., 

 leafy, lying along the ground interlacing ; leaves barely 

 I in. broad, kidney-shaped, notched at the base, toothed, 

 lobed, lobes 4-6, shallow ; flowers -^ in. diam., green-yel- 

 low, stalked solitary, scattered, calyx tube joined to the 

 ovary, lobes 4, overlapping, blunt, petals none, stamens 

 8, styles 2 ; capsule 2-beaked, sphtting open cross-wise 

 at the top, seeds small, smooth, shining. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



