PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



479 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipitlate Simple Leaves, 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Ammania pentandra, 



Lythrace.e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 568. 

 The Plains in moist 

 places. 



Ammania baccifera, 

 Ammania salicifolia, 

 Ammania senegalensis, 

 Ammania multiflora, 



Petals Ununited. 



small, annual, many opposite branches, covered 

 with flowers ; leaves 1 in. long, sessile, unevenly 

 oblong, floral leaves bract-like, oblong broad-based ; 

 flowers very small, solitary sessile axillary, brac- 

 teoles awl-like, as long as the calyx, calyx enclosing 

 the ovary, teeth 10, petals 5, narrow or none, 

 stamens 5, on the calyx tube, style one, thread-like 

 or short, stigma round ; capsule round or depressed, 

 3-celled, 3-valved, seeds black, round. The different 

 species of Ammania are used in native medicine to 

 raise blisters. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 

 Petals none. 



Epilobium angustifolium, 



OXAGRACE^E. 



F. B. I. ii. 582. 

 Himalaya, 8-12,000 ft. 



medium size, smooth ; leaves 3-6 by f in., nearly 

 sessile, short-pointed, margin even or minutely 

 toothed ; flowers f in., rose purple in spikes at the 

 ends of branches, bracts narrow, soon falling off, 

 calyx tube scarcely produced above the ovary, 

 covered with close white wool, linear, teeth 4, 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, purplish, almost petal-like, 

 petals 4, i-§ in., ovate with a broad tip, stalked, 

 stamens 8, on the ovary, bent on one side, 4 shorter, 

 style cylindric, hairy above the base, stigmas 4, 

 distinct, spreading ; capsule linear, 4-celled, split- 

 ting from the apex, 2-|-3^ ins., velvety, valves 4, 

 recurved, seeds many, narrowly ovoid, smooth, 

 crowned with a tuft (coma) of dirty yellow silky 

 hairs. 



