Plants of the Punjab. 



627 



WATER PLANTS 

 Herbs with Opposite Exbtipulate Lobed Leaves, 



Petals united. 



r mnophila 

 sessiliflora, 



SCROPHULARIACE.5;. 



F. B. I. iv. 270. 



The Plains, 



in rice fields and 



marshes. 



Limnophila 

 heterophylla, 



SCBOPHULARIACE^ , 



F. B. I. iv. 270. 

 The Plams, 

 in rice fields and 

 marshes. 



small, annual, slpnder, hairy, covered with glands ; 

 leaves | in. long, 3-6 in a whorl, lobed or pinnately divided, 

 upper leaves often opposite and entire ; flowers | in. long, 

 blue, sessile, axillary, solitary, calyx 5-lo1)ed nearly to 

 the base, segments nearly equal, lanceolate, long-pointed, 

 corolla 2-lipped, tube cylindric, upper lip erect, 2-lobed, 

 lower sreading, 3-lobed, stamens 4,. in miequal pairs, en- 

 closed in the corolla, anther cells stalked, widely 

 separated, style bent at the top, stigma flat, 2-lobed ; 

 capsule ovoid, seeds many, small, angular. 



Hke the last species, but much larger, stem smooth, 

 many, much divided leaves, calyx lobes less long-pointed. 



Limnophila 

 gratioloides, 



SCROPHULARIACEiE. 



F. B. Liv.271, 

 The Plains. 

 Kangra and 

 Dharmsala, 

 3-4,000 ft. 

 Baluchistan. 



small, simple or branched, smelling of turpentine, 

 smooth, leaves J-| in. long, lower leaves often finely divid- 

 ed, flowers stalked, sometimes racemed, calyx ^-^ in., 

 corolla I in. ; for other characters see the last species. 



Utricularia stellaria, 



Lentibulariace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 328. 

 The Plains, in rice 

 fields and marshes. 



• stem floating, leaves submerged : leaves much divided 

 into hair-like segments, interspersed with bladders ; 

 flowers yellow, bracteate, stalked, 1 to 8 together, \ in. 

 long on main stalks which are 2-8 in. long, standing out 

 of the water, smooth, bearing about the middle a cluster 

 of oblong vesicles, calyx of 2 segments, lobes entire, 

 or nearly so, ovate, corolla | in. diam., 2-lipped, upper 

 lip entire or notched, lower larger, 3-6 lobed, spur curved, 

 shorter than the lower lip, stamens 2, broad, anthers ovate, 

 style short, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule | in., round, fruit 

 sepals l'^ in., seeds many, small, thickly discoid, concavo- 

 convex caused hy the turning in of the thin barely winged 

 margin. 



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