Plants of the Punjab, 



623 



WATEE PLANTS. 

 Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Ldmnophila 

 hyperieifolia, 



SCROPHULARIACEJE. 



F. B. I. iv. 269. 

 The Plains to 

 6,000 ft. 

 Kangra. 



Limosella aquatica, 

 Common Limosel, 



Scrophulariace^. 

 F. B. L iv. 288. 

 Kashmir, 5-8,000 ft. 



Petals united. 



like the last species, but the stem is unbranched, 

 smooth, leaves stem-clasping, smaller, never much divided, 

 nerves few, flowers f in. larger, pink-purple, soUtary, axil- 

 lar}^, forming leafy spikes. 



Veronica 

 Anagallis, 



Veronica 

 Beccabunga, 



Utrieularia 

 orbiculata, 



Lentibulariace^. 



F. B. I. iv. 334. 



Himalaya, 



2-8,000 ft. 



On wet rocks in 



streams below Simla. 



Hygrophila 

 polysperma, 



Hygrophila 

 salicifolia. 



small, annual, creeping, tufted, smooth ; leaves 1-2 

 in., long-stalked, sometimes fascicled, oblong, narrowed 

 into the stalk, never divided ; flowers -^- in., pink or white, 

 axillary, without bracts, calyx bell-shaped, .5-toothed, 

 corolla nearly wheel-shaped or bell-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes 

 nearly equal, stamens 4, filaments thread-like, anthers 

 touching, style short, stigma rounded ; capsule | in. diam., 

 round, seeds many, small, ovoid. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Petals United, Stamens 2. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



small, annual, dehcate, stems creeping, thread-like, 

 leafy ; leaves | in. diam., in tufts or alternate, crowded, 

 orbicular or ovate with a broad tip, interspersed with 

 minute bladder-like vessels ; flowers J in. long, lilac, form- 

 ing terminal racemes on very slender erect naked scapes, 

 2-6 m. high, springing from leafy rosettes, calyx free, divid- 

 ed nearly to the base in two very unequal rounded 

 segments,, corolla 2-hpped, base prolonged backwards 

 in a tubular, curved, pointed spur, upper hp very short, 

 erect or recurved, notched, lower much larger, spreading, 

 3-lobed, base convex, closing the mouth of the spur, sta- 

 mens 2, enclosed in the corolla, attached at the base of 

 the upper hp, filaments curved, style very short, stigma 

 2-hpped ; capsule round, enclosed in the enlarged calyx, 

 seeds many, njmute, covered with barbed hairs. Tho 

 small bladder-like vessels devour insects, they each have 

 a little trap do^r which opens inwards. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire, Corolla 2-lipped. 



