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PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



A BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE KEY TO THE FLORA OF THE PUNJAB, 

 NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE AND KASHMIR. 



BY 



Colonel C. J. Bamber, f.l.s., 

 Indian Medical Service. 



Part XI. 



(Oontinued from jJage 1059 of Volume XXI.") 



Hebbs, erect, with Axteknate Exstipulate Simple Leaves 

 Leap Margins Entire. 



Arabis glabra, 

 Arabis nuda, 



Notoceras canariense, 



Crucieer^. 

 F. B. I. i. 140. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Stocks). 



Alyssum minimum, 



CRUCIPERiE. 



F. B. I. i. 141. 

 Kashmir, 4-6,000 ft. 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



Sisymbrium moliissimum, 



Cbucifer^. 

 F. B. I. i. 147. 

 Himalaya, 8-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Petals Ununited. 



see Herbs, Erect, Unbranched, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



see Herbs, Erect, Unbranched, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



small, covered with flattened gray hairs, stiff; 

 leaves small, linear-oblong ; flowers white in short, 

 many-flowered, leaf-opposed racemes, sepals 4, 

 equal below, covered with flat-laid hairs, petals 4, 

 small linear-oblong stamens 6, 4 inner longer in 

 opposite pairs, style short, stigma round ; capsule 

 J in. long, nearly sessile, erect, linear-oblong, 

 valves with a keel ending at the tip in a horn, 

 seeds 4-8. 



small, grey with star-shaped hairs or scales ex- 

 cept on the petals and pods, stems and branches 

 many ; leaves linear-oblong or ovate with a broad 

 tip, entire ; flowers small, yellowish or white in 

 many-flowered bractless racemes, sepals 4, short, 

 equal at the base, petals 4, linear, minute, with 

 short stalks, stamens 6, 4 inner, longer in opposite 

 pairs, all winged, style very short, pointed ; pod 

 short, smooth orbicular, slightly notched, seeds 

 2-10, flattened. 



small to medium size, biennial or perennial, 

 branched or not, smooth or hairy ; leaves 1-2 in., 

 lanceolate-ovate with a broad tip, shortly stalked, 

 entire or toothed, stem leaves oblong, stem -clasping, 

 shaped like an arrow-head, flowers small, purple or 

 white in long racemes, minor flower stalks. ^-^ in., 

 erect, slender, sepals 4, short or long, equal at the 

 base ; or two-pouched, petals 4, long-stalked, sta- 

 mens like the last species, style short, stigma 2-20 

 bed ; pod ^-1^ in., erect, slender, straight, smooth, 

 valves convex, veins indistinct, stalk slender, seeds 

 many, 1-seriate, not margined. 



