PLANTS OF PILE PUNJAB. 



I GO 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals Ununited. 



clusters of very few flowers without bracts on 

 straight slender stalks, calyx 5-toothed and ribbed, 

 top shaped, petals 5, stalked, linear, oblong, margin 

 even, stamens 10, ovary, 1 celled, styles 2 ; capsule 

 oblong, opening by 4 teeth, seeds many, boat- 

 shaped, wrinkled on the edges and keel. 



Acanthophyllum 

 macrodoti, 



Caryophyllaceje. 

 F. B. I. i. 216. 

 N.-W. F. Province, 



small, perennial, tufted, spinous, minutely vel- 

 vety ; leaves |-f in. long, pale green, stiff with a 

 hard sharp pointed tip, horizontal, flat above, 

 convex below, i\-^\) in. diam. at the base, flowers 

 pink, J in. long, terminal, solitary, bracts -1 linear 

 Waziri Hills (Stewart), with thin papery margins, rough with projecting 

 processes, recurved, calyx cylindric, 5-toothed, teeth 

 spiny with very narrow thin, papery margins, petals 

 5, narrow, long stalked, stamens 10, styles 2, ovary 

 1-celled ; capsule ovoid or oblong, 1-2-seeded, seeds 

 almost kidney-shaped, laterally flattened, margin 

 notched. 



Saponaria vaccaria, 



Musna. 



CaRYOPHYLLACE/E. 



F. B. I. i. 217. 



The Plains to 10,000 ft. 



Simla in Cornfields 



(Collett). 

 Murree (Douie). 

 Hazara (Barrett). 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



medium size, annual, smooth, a weed of cultiva- 

 tion, robust, branches none or only a few ; leaves 

 1-8 by -|-f in. radical leaves oblong, short-pointed, 

 stem leaves sessile, base rounded or heart-shaped, 

 linear oblong ; flowers pink in terminal many- 

 flowered forked clusters, calyx § in. long, cylindric, 

 ovoid in fruit, 5-toothed, with 5 broad, green nerves, 

 petals 5, stalked, short, irregularly toothed, broad 

 at the tip, stamens 10, styles 2 ; capsule included 

 in the calyx, broadly ovoid, opening at the top by 

 5 teeth, seeds many, round, large, black. This 

 plant is used as a substitute for soap. 



