PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Sida grewloides, 



MALVACBiE. 



F. B. I. i. 323. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



Petals United. 



medium-size, grey-felted ; with star-shaped 

 hairs ; leaves | in. long, oblong.ovate, blunt- 

 pointed, round-toothed, downy on both surfaces, 

 leaf stalk shorter than the blade, stipules linear, 

 awl-shaped, nearly equal to the leaf stalk ; flowers 

 small, A in. diam., yellow or white solitary or in 

 pairs on a common stalk, shorter than the leaf 

 stalks, calyx of 5 angular sepals, angular-tubular 

 below, petals 5, united together below and with the 

 staminal-tube, staminal-tube dividing above into 

 numerous filaments, styles 7-8 ; fruit of 7-8 carpels, 

 carpels wrinkled, bristle-topped and beaked, beaks 

 converging, seed one in each carpel. The flowers 

 open at noon. 



Abutilon graveolens, 



Bara hanglii, 

 Malvace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 327. 

 The Plains. 

 Bhansi, Gurgaon. 

 Baluchistan (Masters) 



large, perennial, fresh leaves smell unpleasantly, 

 branches covered with velvety glands and hairs ; 

 leaves 2-3-^- in., round heart-shaped, sometimes 

 lobed, abruptly long-pointed, velvety on both 

 surfaces, leaf-stalk almost as long as the blade, 

 stipules linear sickle-shaped, turned back, soon 

 falling of!:'; flowers large, orange with dark centre, 

 pink and turned back when old, on axillary and 

 terminal stalk, as long as the leaf-stalks, and joint- 

 ed above the middle, calyx of 5 sepals, ovate, long- 

 laointed, tubular below, densely velvety, petals 5, 

 broadly heart-shaped, united together below and 

 with the staminal-tube, staminal-tube dividing 

 above into many filaments, styles 20 or more ; fruit 

 of 20 or more carpels, rounded hairy, about equal 

 in length to the calyx, which is enlarged in fruit, 

 not bristle-pointed, separating from the central 

 column, each carpel 2 or more seeded, seeds kidney- 

 shaped. The flowers open in the evening; a fibre 

 is obtained from the stem ; the roots, leaves and 

 seeds are medicinal. 



