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Herbs, erect, with Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals United. 



Lysimachia lobelioides, 



PRIMULACEiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 502. 

 Himalaya, 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (CoUett). 

 Kashmir. 



Lysimachia pyramidalis, 



Primulacb^. 

 p. B. I. iii. 503. 

 Himalaya, 5-8,000 ft. 

 East of the Sutlej, 

 Simla (OoUett). 



Lysimachia chenopo- 

 dioides, 



PRIMtJLACEiE. 



P. B. I. iii. 503. 

 Himalaya, 5-9,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 

 Centunculus tenellus, 

 Primulace^. 

 p. B. I. iii. 506. 

 Himalaya, 1-6,000 ft. 

 Dalhousie. 



Samolus Valerand i, 

 Brookweed. 



Primulace^. 

 p. B. I. iii. 506. 

 Himalaya, 3-4,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley Suni on 



marshes (Oollett.) 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



Flowers not in Heads. 



medium size, annual, smooth, stem angular, 

 branched from the base ; leaves 1-1^ in. ovate- 

 lanceolate, tapering into a short stalk, short-point- 

 ed, margin gland-dotted ; flowers \-^ in. long, 

 pale purple or white, sweet-scented, solitary, or 

 pairs in the axils of leaves or bracts forming termi- 

 nal racemes 3-6 in., calyx 5-lobed, nearly as long 

 as the corolla, margins thin, bracts awl-shaped, 

 corolla \ in. diam., funnel-shaped, segments 5, ovate 

 with a broad tip, longer than the calyx, stamens 

 5, ununited, without glands, anthers oblong, pro- 

 truding, style thread-like; capsvile ^ in. diam. 

 round, splitting by 5 valves, seeds many, minute. 



medium size, annual, smooth, much-branched ; 

 leaves 1-2^ in., linear-lanceolate, minutely gland- 

 dotted and margined sessile or nearly so ; flowers 

 white or pale purple, \ in. long, in long terminal 

 racemes 6-10 in., bracts linear, lower 1 in., sepals 

 narrowly lanceolate with slender thin margins, 

 corolla lobes toothed, stamens shorter than the 

 corolla, capsule opens irregularly; for other 

 characters see the last species. 



medium size, somtimes prostrate, leaves ^-1 in., 

 ovate-lanceolate, short or long pointed, tapering 

 into a rather long stalk ; flowers J in., pale purple 

 sessile or nearly so, solitary, axillary, calyx equal 

 to the corolla, long glands in series down the 

 sepals, stamens short ; for other characters see the 

 last species. 



small, annual, sometimes unbranched ; leaves \ 

 in., sometimes nearly opposite, ovate, short-pointed 

 sessile ; flowers minute, white or pink, solitary, 

 axillary, stalks shorter than the leaves, lengthen- 

 ing in fruit, calyx 4-5-lobed, corolla pitcher-shaped, 

 lobes 4-5, wheel-shaped ovate-lanceolate, stamens 

 4-5, on the corolla throat, anthers protruding, 

 style thread-like ; capsiile globular, opening by a 

 circular fissure round the middle, seeds many, 

 target-shaped. 



small to medium size, perennial, rootstock short, 

 smooth, sometimes prostrate, rooting at the base ; 

 leaves 1-4 in., ovate with a broad tip or narrowed 

 to the base, lower crowded, spreading, stalked, 

 upper smaller, nearly sessile ; flowers ^ in. diam., 

 white in terminal racemes or flat-topped clusters, 

 afterwards lengthening, stalks bracteate about the 

 middle, calyx-tube half spherical, lobes 5, triangu 

 lar, corolla-tube bell-shaped, deeply 5-lobed, lobes 

 spreading, stamens 5, on the base of corolla, short 

 alternating with 5 minute scales, style short ; cap- 



