640 



Plants of the Punjab. 



WATEE PLANTS. 

 Herbs uneranchbd. 



Petals ununited. 



Ali ma oligococcum, like the last species, but leaves 3-6 by 2-3 in. broad 



Alismace-B. ovate, heart-shaped, flowers pink and small. 



F. B. I. vi. 560. 

 The Plains, 

 in marshes. 



Sagittaria 

 sagittifolia, 

 Arrow Head, 



Alismace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 561. 

 The Plains, 

 .■n tanks. 



stemless, perennial ; leaves vary, submerged ones 

 ribbon-shaped, floating, have an ovate blade, those above 

 the water are arrow-shaped, 2-8 in. long, blmit or short- 

 pointed, stalks 8-18 in., triangular ; flowers f in. diam., 

 white with purple base, in branching racemes or spiked 

 clusters, sepals 8, green, petals 8, thin, stamens 6 or more ; 

 fruit of a round or oblong head of flattened winged achenes ; 

 achenes flat, dorsally winged, wings broad, entire or slightly 

 round-toothed. 



Sagittaria 

 guayanensis, 



Alismace^e. 

 F. B. I. vi, 561, 

 The Plains, 

 in tanks. 



like the last species, but 'eaves broadly ovate, deeply 

 notched at the base, blunt-pointed, 1-2 in., lobes broad, 

 short-pointed, or blunt, notch broad or narrow, flowers 

 § in. diam., white, achenes flat, surrounded by a broad 

 toothed wing. 



Butomus umbellatus, 

 Flowering Rush, 



Alismaceje. 

 F. B. I. vi. 562. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, in 

 marshes. 



large, smooth, rootstock stout, creeping; 'eaves all 

 radical, 86-48 hj ^ in., Imear, erect, 3-edged, long point- 

 ed, base •sheathing ; flowers 1 in. diam., pink, in simple 

 bracteate umbels, on a long bare erect stalk, umbels many- 

 flowered, bracts 3, lesser flowers stalks 2-4 in., sepals 3 

 and petals 3, both pink, leather}^ persistent, stamens 9 ; 

 fruit of 6 leathery, beaked, many-seeded follicles, seeds 

 linear-oblong, furrowed. 



Triglocliin palustre, 

 Arrow Grass, 



Naiadace;e. 

 F. B. I. vi. 563. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-15,000 ft. 

 Baluchistan (Lace), 



small, rootstock creeping, stem 6-24 in., tuberous, 

 bearing runners, growing in marshes ; leaves 2-12 in., ;ush- 

 like, I cylindrical ; flowers small, green with purplish mar- 

 gins on short minor stalks, in a raceme on a slender -cape, 

 ■^sepals and petals 8 each, green, concave, soon falling oft, 

 stamens 6, styles short, often united ; fruit ^ in. long cf 

 3 carpels with recurved tips, lying flat against the stalk. 



