PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Hbkbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf MaPvGINS Toothed. 



Petals United, 



than the leaf-stalks, calyx tubular below, sepals 5, 

 triangular, short-pointed, hairy, petals 5, united 

 below and to the staminal tube, stamens many, 

 united below into a tube ; carpels 5, separating 

 from the central column, crowned each by two long 

 erect rough beaks, equal to the calyx, seeds one in 

 each carpel. The roots and leaves are used in 

 Indian medicine. 



Sida carpinifolia, 



Bariara, kareta, 

 Malvacb^. 

 F. B. I. i. 323. 

 The Plains. 



like the last species, but without spiny tubercles, 

 leaves narrower, stipules broader, veined, bristly, 

 flower stalks jointed near the middle, calyx-tube 

 nearly round, petals twice as long as the calyx, 

 yellow, carpels 5-10, wrinkled, beak of two bristles. 

 Good fibre is obtained from the stems, and other 

 parts are tised medicinally. 



Sida rhombifoiia, 



Swet-berela, saJiadebi, 



MALVACEiE. 



F. B. I. i. 323. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



like the last species, but larger, leaves squarer 

 with rounded angles, and tapering at the base, 

 flower-stalks longer than the leaf-stalks, stipules 

 longer than the leaf-stalks, carpels 10, beaked with 

 bristles or not, as long as the calyx. 



Malvaob.^ 

 F. B. I. i. 324 

 The Plains. 



Sida cordifotia, medium size, annual or perennial, downy with 



Koioar, Simah, bariara, i^j^g hairs ; leaves 1-2 in., oblong, heart-shaped, 

 blunt-pointed, round-toothed, stalk equal in length 

 to the blade, stipules linear, shorter than the leaf 

 stalk, soon falling oft' ; flower stalks solitary, upper 

 very short and crowded, flowers small, yellow, car- 

 pels beaked Avith 10 bristles, netted on the sides, 

 bristles longer than the sepals, covered with stift' 

 reflexed hairs ; in other respects like the last spe- 

 cies. The flowers in this genus only expand at 

 noon. 



