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HeKBS, erect, with AlTEKNATE ExSTIPULATE SiMPLE LEAVES. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Cieome papillosa, 



OAPPARIDACEiE. 



F. B. 1. i. 168. 



The Plains West of 



the Eavi. 

 Karana Hills (Douie) 

 Baluchistan (Boissier) 



€leome quinquenervis, 



Oapparidace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 168. 

 The Plains West of 

 the Ravi. 



Linum usitatissimum, 



Flax, linseed. 



Alsi 



^INACE^. 



F. B. L i. 410. 

 The Plains to 6,000 ft, 

 Baluchistan (Hughes- 

 Biiller). 



Linum perenne, 



Linages. 

 F. B. L i. 411. 

 Himalaya 9-13,000 ft. 

 Lahoul (Jaeschke) 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



Linum strictum, 



Linages. 



F. B. L i. 411. 



The Plains 1-6,000 ft. 



Peshawaur, R a w a 1- 



pindi, Baluchistan 



(Lace). 



Petals Ununited. 



small to medium size, strongly scented, hairy, 

 often glandular ; leaves f-lf in., ovate-heart- 

 shaped penninerved, blunt, with nipple shaped 

 projections and flattened stiff hairs, lowers, 

 long-stalked, upper nearly sessile ; flowers very 

 small, pinkish to dirty yellow in racemes 

 lengthening in fruit, with oblong small bracts, 

 sepals 4, spreading, petals 4, stamens 6, sessile, 

 style short ; capsule 1-1^ in., nearly sessile, very 

 slender, 2-valved, seeds many, kidney-shaped, 

 granular. 



small to medium size, woody, stifi", sticky, 

 strongly scented ; leaves 1 in. diam., nearly 

 circular, blunt or short-pointed, base heart-shaped 

 or rounded, stalks and edges glandular, softly 

 velvety, palmately 5-nerved ; flowers small in 

 racemes, lengthened in fruit, bracts leafy nearly 

 sessile, sepals and petals as in the last species, 

 stamens 4 or 6 ; capsules 1-1-|- by | in., sharp at 

 both ends, narrowly oblong, sessile hairs short, 

 stift' with broad bases with soft black glandular 

 hairs, seeds minute, smooth. 



medium size, annual, stem cylindric ; leaves 

 narrow, nearly 3-nerved ; flowers 1 in. diam., 

 blue in broad terminal clusters, sepals 5, ovate, 

 long-pointed, 3-nerved, margins white, without 

 glands ; petals 5, twist 3d, soon falling off, 

 stamens 6, alternating with 6 small stamino- 

 des, united below, styles 5 ; capsule 5-celled, 

 scarcely longer than the sepals, seeds 10, 

 brown, flattened, polished. This plant is widely 

 cultivated for its seeds, from which linsed oil 

 (alsi ka tel) is extracted, in India it is not grown 

 for the fibre, flax, from which in Europe linen 

 is woven. 



medium size, perennial, stems many ; leaves |^-| 

 in., all lanceolate, or lower oblong blunt and 

 upper linear short-pointed ; flowers 1 in. diam., 

 blue in few-flowered racemes, sepals ovate with 

 glandular margins, capsule much larger than 

 the white margined sepals ; otherwise like the last 

 species. 



small, annual, or biennial, 

 or slightly velvety ; leaves 

 linear-oblong, or lanceolate, 

 nerved ; flowers f-f in. diam.. 

 stalked in flat-toped terminal clusters, sepals 

 with long green rigid points, margins glandu- 

 lar, capsule \ in., round, much shorter than 

 the sepals ; in other characters like the last 

 species. 



slender, smooth 



i-i in. linear, 



long-pointed, 1- 



yellow shortly 



