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PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



A BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE KEY TO THE FLORA OF THE PUNJAB 

 NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE AND KASHMIR. 



Colonel 0. J. BAMBER. F.L.S.. 

 Indian Medical Service. 



Part VI. 



(Continued from page 975 of Volume XIX.) 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margins Entire. 



Petals Ununited. 



Dianthus Caryophyllus, 



Carnation, 



Clove Pink, 



C A RYOPH YLLAO E M . 

 F. B. I. i. 214. 



N.-W. F. Province. 

 Attock (Falconer). 



medium size, perennial, smooth, greyish green, 

 branched and leafy below, jointed and thickened 

 at the joints ; leaves 4-6 by £ in., linear grooved, 

 pointed, flowers pink, 1-1 i in. diam., fragrant in 

 loosely branched clusters, bracts 4 broad with an 

 abrupt point, much shorter than the calyx, calyx 

 1-1 i in. long, tubular, 5-toothed, petals 5, stalked, 

 smooth, toothed, stamens 10, inserted with the 

 petals on a long process, styles 2; capsule ovoid, 

 4-toothed, seeds discoid, with a central groove. 



Dianthus crinitus, 



Caryophyllace.e. 

 F. B. I. i. 21-5. 

 Salt Range. 

 N.-W. F. Province, 

 Peshawar. 

 Baluchistan (Lace.) 



Tunica stricta, 



CARYOPH YLLACEiE . 



F. B. I. i. 215. 

 Kashmir, 



like. the last species, but the bracts 4-8 ail 

 lanceolate and long pointed, branches rigid, clust- 

 ers few-flowered, petals white, scented, fringed 

 nearly to the base. 



medium size, annual, slender, smooth, branched 

 from the base, leaves radical Hrin. long, numerous, 

 linear with the tip broad and narrowing to the base, 

 stem leaves linear ; flowers £ in. long, white, 





