PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Heebs, erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Linum mysorense, 



Linaceje. 



F. B. 1. i. 411. 



Himalaya 3-5,000 ft. 



Dharmpur. 



Orotalaria albida, 

 Sedum Rhodiola, 



Crasstjlace^e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 417. 

 Himalaya 12-17,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Sedum tibeticum, 



Crassxjlace.^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 418. 

 Himalaya 12-14,000 ft. 

 Lahoul (Jaeschke). 

 Sedum qudrifidum, 



CRASSULACEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 418. 

 Himalaya 11-18,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 

 Sedum elongatum, 



CRASSULACEiE. 



F. B. L ii. 419. 

 Himalaya 10-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Sedum linearifolium, 



Crassulace^e. 



F. B. I. ii. 420. 



Himalaya 7-10,000 ft. 



Matiana, 



The Chor (Collett), 



Jaku, Simla. 



Sedum Jaeschkei, 



Crasstjlace^. 



F. B. I. ii. 421. 



Lahoul, Kangra Dist. 



1(5 



Petals Ununited. 



small, annual, smooth, slender ; leaves ^-§ in., 

 oblong with rounded ends, or short-pointed, 3- 

 nerved ; flowers \ in. diam. yellow in large branch- 

 ing flat-topped clusters made up of one-sided 

 racemes, sepals short, petals longer than the 

 sepals, stamens and styles united below, stigmas 

 round, capsule round, equal to the sepals, other- 

 wise like the last species. 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate,Simple. 



small to medium size, rootstock perennial thick 

 smelling of roses crowned with scales, stems thick ; 

 leaves f-lf in. long, ovate with broad tip or broadly 

 oblong, often toothed towards the tip, green with 

 a waxy gloss ; flowers small, male or female, yellow 

 in close terminal often branched clusters, calyx 5, 

 often 4-fid, lobes narrow, oblong, petals 5, often 4, 

 long in males, short in females, stamens twice as 

 many as the petals, long, projecting, styles 5-4 

 short, recurved in fruit, carpels 6-4, 1 in. long, not 

 narrowed at the base, seeds many oblong with 

 rounded ends, flattened. 



small, smooth ; leaves g-f in., loosely overlapping, 

 upper oblong, lower often ovate, flowers often 

 in fives as petals and sepals, pink or purple, sepals 

 on fruit triangular long-pointed, other characters 

 like the last species. 



very like the last species, but stems many ; 

 leaves nearly cylindrical, flowers red, often with 

 four petals and sepals, the latter oblong, styles 

 short, sometimes straight. 



like the last species, but larger ; leaves f-2 in. 

 oblong, narrowed at the base or oblong with round- 

 ed ends, sessile, clusters large, sepals lanceolate- 

 linear, petals black-purple lanceolate, carpels 

 hardly \ in. each ; flowers both male and 

 female. 



small, smooth or nearly so, rootstock thick, stems 

 tufted ; leaves -|-f in., sessile, narrowly oblong, 

 rarely a few teeth, blunt radical leaves few, stem 

 leaves many ; flowers | in., white, in 2-8 flowered 

 clusters, sepals oblong-lanceolate, petals i in. 

 long, broadly lanceolate ; otherwise like the last 

 species. 



small, annual, branches crowded ; leaves, lower 

 crowded, upper scattered or crowded at the end of 

 branches, oblong prolonged into the stalk, short- 

 pointed ; flowers nearly \ in. long, golden yeUow 

 solitary at the end of branches or in small plants 

 clustered, sepals J-^ in. long, green fleshy, petals 

 twice the sepals, lanceolate, blunt, stamens half as 



