PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



125. 



Herbs, Ekbct, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Juncus bufonius, 



Toad rush 



Juncace^. 



F. B. I. vi. 392. 



The Plains to 13,000 ft. 



In wet places. 



Petals Ununited, 



small, annual, pale green, smooth, stems tufted,, 

 slender, branched from the base upwards ; leaves, 

 bristle-like, few, channelled above, base sheathing, 

 pale, flowers |-J in. long, pale green in axillary or 

 terminal clusters, sepals 3 with a thickened midrib, 

 long-pointed with a broad thin margin, persistent, 

 petals 3, like the sepals but without the midrib, 

 stamens 6 or 3, half as long as the sepals, 6 in the 

 open lateral flowers, 3 in the closed terminal 

 flowers ; capsule ovoid with a broad top, blunt, pale, 

 shorter than, and enclosed in, the persistent sepals, 

 and petals, seeds very minute, finely net veined,, 

 tips almost rounded. 



Petals United. 



PoLYGALA — Flowers somewhat like those of a Pea. 



Polygala triphylla, 



Milkioort. 



PoLYGALACEiE. 



F. B. I. i. 201. 

 Himalaya, 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla, Syree (CoUett). 

 Dharmpur. 



Polygala crotalarioides, 



POLYGALACEJE. 



F. B. L i. 201. 

 Himalaya 4-7,000 ft. 

 east of the Ravi. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Polygala abyssinica, 



POLYGALACE^. 



F. B. I. i. 202. 

 Himalaya, 3-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Matiana Multan 



(Edgeworth). 



small, annual, slender, smooth; leaves 1^-2^ in., 

 circular or oblong contracted into the stalk, stalk 

 often winged, membranous, smooth, blunt ; flowers 

 1^ in., pink in slender many-flowered terminal 

 racemes 1^-2 in., bracts 3, soon falling ofi", sepals 5,. 

 unequal 2 inner, petal-like, in colour equal to the 

 petals, 3 outer smaller, green, failing oQ" after 

 flowering, petals 3, unequal, united at the base, 

 2 upper small, the lowest (keel) longset, concave,. 

 2-lobed at the tip, not crested at the tip with 

 a fringed brush, stamens 8, united in two sets of 4 

 each, joined to the petals, style long, incurved ; 

 capsule ^0-8 in., 2-celled, round, narrowly winged, 

 membranous, seeds black, hairy, one in each ceU, 

 prolonged at the base by 2 minute appendages, 



perennial, densely hairy, rootstock woody, often, 

 tuberous, stems short, thick, sometimes reclining ; 

 leaves ^-2 in., ovate or oblong-ovate, tip rounded 

 Avith or without an abrupt point, with few scattered 

 hairs ; flowers J-^ in. long, purple, very shortly 

 stalked in very short, dense-flowered, rarely termi- 

 nal racemes, bracts minute, awl-shaped, sepals 

 persistent, inner wing sepals ovate with a broad 

 tip, twice as long as the capsule, keel petal crested, 

 capsule heart-shaped, broader than long, fringed 

 with bristles, seeds with 2 small appendages ; 

 otherwise like the last species. 



small to medium size, smooth, branches many ; 

 leaves f-J in., narrow linear, long-pointed, almost 

 sessile, flowers J in. long, pink on one side of long 

 terminal slender loose-flowered racemes 2-6 in. 

 long, bracts ovate, soon falling oft", wing sepals 

 yellowish green, capsule narrowly winged near the- 

 top, seeds densely hairy, not appendaged ; other- 

 wise like the last species. 



