PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Hbbbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 

 Petals United. 



Stamens Two. 



large, rough, stem succulent, [an American weed ; 

 eaves 5-10 in. diam., round, or angled, thin, long- 

 stalked, sometimes upper alternate ; flowers 1^-3 

 in., pale pink, showy in axillary and terminal clus- 

 ters, calyx 4-5 lobed, corolla bell-shaped, and 

 Dunera, Gur d a s p u r inflated on one side, somewhat 2-lipped, 5-lobed, 

 District stamens 2, capsule 1 in., woody covered with a soft 



coat soon falling off, beaked by strong curved 

 spines, that catch on to any passing animal. 



Martynia diandra, 

 Tiger or Devils Claw, 



PEDALLIACEiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 386. 

 Himalaya, 1-2,000 ft 



Sesamum indicum, 



Verbena officinalis, 

 Vervain, 



Verbenace^. 



F. B. I. iv. 565. 



The Plains to 7,000 ft. 



Simla (Collett). 



Phalia in the Gujrat 



District. 

 Kahuta. Murree 



(Douie). 

 Hazara (Barrett). 



Leonurus gardiaca. 

 Motherwort. 



Labiate. 

 F. B. I. iv. 678. 

 Himalaya, 6-10,000 ft. 

 Narkanda (Collett). 



Stamens Four, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed, Corolla two-lipped. Stamens four. 



medium-size, perennial, nearly smooth, stems 4- 

 sided, branching ; leaves 2-4 in., variously lobed, 

 sometimes ovate, toothed, base narrow, lower leaves 

 stalked, upper sessile, usually divided into three ; 

 flowers J in., blue or lilac, sessile in long slender 

 bracteate spikes, branching, 3-10 in. long, calyx 

 i6-x\ in., tubular, glandular-hairy, 6 minute teeth, 

 corolla hairy, tube nearly cylindric, longer than 

 the calyx, lobes 5, spreading, stamens 4, in unequal 

 pairs, enclosed in the corolla, style short, stigma 

 round ; fruit of 4 nutlets enclosed in the calyx ; 

 nutlets jjV in., oblong, 3-ribbed, inner faces with 

 minute white flaking cells. 



large, root stock and stem stout ; leaves velvety 

 to felted beneath, lower 5 by 3 in., ovate lance- 

 olate or round, toothed or deeply and irregularly 

 cut into several coarsely toothed lobes, long stock- 

 ed, upper 1-3 in. narrow, lobed or nearly undivided; 

 flowers i in. long, pink, in many dense axillary clus- 

 ters forming long terminal spikes, bracts large, 

 lower stalked, bracteoles spinous, calyx ^ in., top- 

 shaped, 5-nerved, 5-toothed, teeth triangular, 

 spines long, corolla-tube ringed within, 2-lipped, 



