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Hkebs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Psoralea corylifolia, 



Babchi. 

 Lbguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 103. 

 The Plains. 



Petals Ununited. 



medium-size, annual, branches dotted with 

 glands, leaves 1-3 in., roundish, with a widely 

 round-toothed margin, firm, coverd with black dots 

 above and below ; flowers | in,, yellow or white, 

 tipped with purple, 10-80 crowded in long-stalked 

 head-like clusters, calyx nearly sessile, bell-shaped, 

 ^ in., teeth 5, lanceolate, the lowest longest, corolla 

 projecting a little beyond the calyx, loAver petal 

 keel-shaped blunt, tip slightly incurved, stamens 

 10, upper stamen united or not with the others in 

 a tube, style long, thread-like, incurved; pod nearly 

 round, small, smooth black. 



Petals United. 



Malvastrum tricuspida- medium-size, branched, covered with simple hairs; 



turn, leaves 2 in., ovate- lanceolate, irregularly toothed, 



Malvaceje. leaf stalk 1\ in., stipules ununited; flowers yellow 



F. B. I. i. 321. on axillary or terminal stalks, J—J in. long, 



The Plains. bracteoles 3, narrow, calyx bell-shaped, 5-lobed, 



Lahore, Delhi, triangular, short-pointed, petals 5, twisted, over- 



Rawalpindi, (intro- lapping, longer than the sepals, stamens many, 

 duced). united below and to the petals, forming a tube, 



styles 8-12, stigmas round ; fruit of 8-12 dry car- 

 pels, one-seeded, separating from the central 

 column, curved with 3 projecting points. 



Sida humilis see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Sida spinosa medium-size, perennial, shruby, stems rough with 



Gulsahari, jangli-methi, star-shaped hairs, branches usually armed with 



Malvaceje. curved spiny tubercle at the nodes below the leaf- 



F. B. I. i. 323. stalks ; leaves ^-2 in., very variable, ovate with or 



The Plains. without a broad apex, apex blunt or notched, base 



heart-or wedge-shaped, grey below with star-shaped 



hairs, leaf-stalks ^ in., stipules awl-shaped ; 



flowers I in. diam., white, on solitary or clustered 



stalks, jointed near the flower, equal to or longer 



