PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



137 



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



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



Swertia alternifolia, 



Gentianace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 128. 

 Himalaya, 11-12,000 ft, 

 The Chor (CoUett). 



Heliotropium Zeylanicum, 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. ]48. 

 The Plains. 



Heliotropium dasycarpum, 



BORAGINAC'E^. 



F. B. I. iv. 148. 

 N. W. F. Province. 

 Peshawar (Stewart). 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



Heliotropium Eichwaldi, 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 149. 

 The Plains. 

 Kashmir, Srinagar. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Heliotropium rariflorum, 



BORAGINACE^. 



F. B. L iv. 152. 

 The Plains. 

 Jhelum (Aitchison). 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 

 18 



sule \ in. diam., ovoid, crowned with the calyx 

 teeth, splitting from the top in 5 valves, seeds many, 

 minute, wrinkled. 



medium size to large, rootstock only perennial 

 stems angled, hollow, | in. thick ; leaves 5 by 2 in. 

 radical long-stalked, stem leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 stem-clasping, flowers 1^ in. diam., bright grey 

 sometimes said to be yellow, in branching racemes 

 sepals 6, ^ by i in., ovate, short-pointed, toothed, 

 corolla-lobes 5, f by | in., oblong narrowed to the 

 base, short-pointed, two glandular depressions at 

 the base of each lobe, long-fringed, stamens 5, 

 style short, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule f-f by ^ in., 

 sessile oblong, seed ^ in. diam., smooth. 



medium size to large, annual, roughly hairy ; 

 leaves 1^ by \ in., narrowly -lanceolate, sessile, 

 nearly entire ; flowers ^ in. diam., white sessile in 

 long bractless spikes 2-6 in., often branching in 

 twos, curled up as it lengthens, flowers 1-2-ranked, 

 calyx 5-lobed, lobes J^ in., ovate, short-pointed, 

 corolla-tube | in. wider above, minutely bristly 

 without lobes 5, ^ in. spreading, long pointed, 

 stamens 5 on the corolla tube, short, style longer 

 than the stigma, stigma short oblong, very hairy, 

 not protruding ; fruit 3— in., of 2-wrinkled pitted 

 2-seeded nutlets. 



small to medium size, perennial, woody, stiff', 

 roughly hairy ; leaves f by ^ in., wedge-shaped at 

 both ends, nearly entire, sessile, flowers \ in., 

 Avhitish in short few flowered spikes, calyx lobes 

 ji in., oblong-lanceolate, corolla \ in., cylindric, 

 stamens longer than those of the last species, 

 style short, stigma rough; fruit small, sometimes 

 silky ;-for other characters see the last species. 



small, perennial, woody, branching from the base, 

 softly hairy ; leaves f-l|^ in., ovate with a broad 

 tip or oblong with rounded ends, silky, nearly entire, 

 stalks ^-1 in., flowers i in., in 2 ranks on dense 

 bractless spikes, 2 in. long, calyx lobes \ in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, hairy, narrow, not covering the fruit, 

 corolla lobes slightly toothed, small, round, style 

 short, nutlets -^^ in. not spreading, forming an 

 ovoid 4-pointed mitre-like fruit with a §mall 

 hole at the top ; for other characters see the last 

 species. 



small, annual ; leaves 1 by i in., linear, nearly 

 entire, rough, hairy ; flowers sessile in spikes l-.S 

 in., bracts scattered, leaflike, stigma a very depres- 

 sed cone, fruit four-lobed, bristly ; for other cha- 

 racters see the last species. 



