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Plants of the Punjab. 



WATEE PLANTS. 

 Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Crlnum defixum, 



Amaryllidace^. 

 F. B. Lvi.281, 

 The Plains, on 

 swampy river banks. 



Nalas major, 



Naiadaceje. 

 F. B. L vi. 569. 

 The Plains to 

 8,000 It. 



Petals none. 



large, bulbous, neck cylindric, bulb large, spindle- 

 shaped ; leaves 24-36 by |-1 in., linear, erect, blunt-pointed, 

 concave ; flowers 4-5 in., white tinged with red, fragrant 

 at night, sessile in ovate-lanceolate sheaths, li-2 in. long, 

 in umbels, 6-lo-flowered on stout main stalks l|-2 ft. long, 

 calyx 6-segmented, tube 2^-3 in., segments nearly as long, 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate, corolla none, stamens 6, bright 

 red, shorter than the segments, anthers | in. ; fruit 1 in, 

 diara., nearly round, 1.2-seeded. 



submerged, rootstock creeping, stem cylindrical, 

 branched, thread-hke ; leaves -^-l^ in. long, linear, teeth 

 4=8 on each side, triangular, dorsally spinous ; flowers male 

 and female on separate plants, minute, solitary, axillary, 

 male flowers conssit of an oblong tube, 2-8-toothed with 

 an inner tube, thin, transparent, stamen one, united to the 

 inner tube, female flowers consist of one sessile oblong 

 carpel, stigmas 2-3, thread-hke : achene yV-i in., seed 

 erect. 



Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 

 Petals ununited. 



Myrlophyllum 

 vertieillatum, 



Halorrgagidace^. 

 F. B. L ii. 433. 

 Kashmir, 7,000 ft., 

 in ponds. 



Myriopyhllum 

 BpicatiuD, 

 Water Mill oU, 



Halorrhagidaceje. 

 F. B. I. ii. 483. 

 Himalaya, 

 1-5,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, 

 Baluchistan. 



small, stem floating, smooth, varying in length with 

 the depth, leafy : leaves w^horled, in fours, pinnately 

 divided, segments simple, distinct, hair-like, J-^ in. ; flowers 

 male and female separate, small, sessile in whorls of 4, form- 

 ing slender axillary spikes projecting above the water, 

 one large, 2 minute bracts round each flower, upper 

 flowers of spike male, lower female, of male flower calyx 

 4-toothed, petals 4, concave, stamens 8, short, of female 

 flowers calyx 4-grooved, teeth 4, minute, petals minute, 

 stigmas 4, nearly sessile ; fruit nearly square, not deeply 

 grooved, dividing into 4 one-seeded nutlets. 



very Hke the the last species, but the spikes always 

 terminal, fruit narrowly but deeply grooved, carpels 

 more or less tubercled on the back. 



