122 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXII. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire, 



Petals Ununited. 



Sedum multicaule, 



Crassulaceje. 

 F. B. I. ii. 422. 

 Himalaya 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (CoUett) Kash- 

 mir. 



Drosera peltata, var. 

 nata. 



Droserace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 424. 

 Bimalaya 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (CoUett). 



lu- 



Ammania baccifera, 

 Epilobium latifolium, 



Epilobium origanifoiium, 



Onagrace^. 

 F. B. L iio 586. 

 Himalaya 9-14,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Bupleurum- 



long as the petals, follicles erect in fruit, 5 ; other- 

 wise like the last species. 



small, smooth, much divided from the base ; 

 leaves ^-1 in. long, linear-oblong, short-pointed, 

 flowers yellow, nearly sessile in clusters, follicles 

 spreading in fruit, not rough, seeds rough, ovate 

 with a broad top ; otherwise like the last species. 



small to medium size, perennial, sometimes 

 tmbranched, slender, glandular ; leaves \ in. across, 

 semi-lunar, covered above and on margins with 

 sticky glandular hairs, radical leaves smaller, soon 

 falling-off; flowers \ in. diam., white interminal 

 branching racemes, calyx o-toothed glandular, 

 petals 5, stamens o, styles 3, stigmas min- 

 utely fringed ; capsule 3-valved, enclosed in the 

 calyx and petals, seeds many, minute, united to 

 the valves. This plant is allied to the English 

 sundew and is an insectivorous plant, the remains 

 of insects are found sticking to the leaves. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



small to large, stem cylindrical with 2 lines of 

 hairs, sometimes velvety all over ; leaves vary 

 much, mid stem leaves opposite, sessile or shortly 

 stalked, ovate or ovate-oblong, 1 in. long, some- 

 times 3 in.; flower usually few, at the end of 

 branches, petals less than \ in.; stigma club- 

 shaped, capsule 1^-3 in., seeds narrow, long, some- 

 what narrowed at the top, seeds minutely dotted ; 

 otherwise like E. latifolium. 



-Flowers on Stalks forming the radii op a 

 Circle (Umbels). 



Bupleurum lanceolatum, 

 Buplever or Hare's ear, 



Umbellifer^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 674. 

 Himalaya 4-9,000 ft. 

 Fagu (Collett). 

 The Galis (Douie). 

 Kashmif. 



meditmi size to large, perennial, smooth ; leaves^ 

 lower lanceolate, long-stalked middle stem-ones 

 3-5 by j-3 in., ovate, long-pointed, bracts none or 

 only one, \ in., linear, bracteoles 2-6, narrowly 

 lanceolate, much shorter than the umbels, soon 

 falling-off ; flowers very small, yellow on short 

 stalks 5-6 combined on 5-8 unequal rays forming 

 a compound umbel, calyx teeth none, petals 5, 

 ovate with a broad tip, the latter inflexed, the 

 outer petals of an umbel enlarged, stamens 5, 

 styles 2 ; fruit | in. of 2 one-seeded carpels hang- 

 ing on to a central undivided stalk (carpophore), 

 each carpel, which is convex externally, has 5 

 longitudinal obscure ridges with 3 oil canals- 



