PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipttiate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



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Erythrasa Roxburghii, 

 Erythraea Mcyeri, 



Erythraea babytonica, 



Gentianace^s. 

 F. B. I. iv. 102. 

 The Plains. 



Lahore. 

 Rawalpindi (Douie). 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Simple, Entire. 

 see Herbs, Unbranched, Simple, Entire. 



small, stem unbranched below, square with sharp 

 angles ; leaves f-|- in., radical leaves 2, none when 

 in flower, stem leaves oblong, distant from one 

 another ; flowers § in., pink, nearly sessile in equally- 

 branching clusters, calyx $ in., nearly as long as the 

 corolla tube ; otherwise like Erythrcea ramosissima. 

 Douie notes that the pedicels and calyx are longer 

 in the Rawalpindi specimens. 



Canscora diffusa, small to medium size, annual, stem square, den- 



GENTiANACEiE. sely branched above ; leaves If by f in., 3-nerved, 



F. B. I. iv. 103. often stalked, lower leaves lanceolate or oblong 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. with a rounded end, upper passing into ovate, 



short-pointed, sessile, thin bracts ; flowers J in., 



pink on slender, zigzag stems in loosely spreading 



leafy terminal clusters, bracts f in., leaflike, a few 



uppermost linear, calyx \ in., tubular, 4-toothed, 



round, keeled, teeth lanceolate-linear, corolla tube I 



in., cylindric, lobes 4, £ in., long, nearly 2-lipped, 



stamens 4, one larger perfect on the corolla throat, 



3 smaller lower down, style linear, stigmas 2, short ; 



capsule -i in. oblong, seeds minute, dark-brown, 



many-sided. 



Canscora decussata, 



Sanlikapuli. 



Gentianace^e. 



F. B. I. iv. 104. 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



small to medium size, annual, stems square, the 

 angles winged ; leaves If by f in., sessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved ; flowers -f in., white on stalks 

 in the forks of erect winged branches of clusters, 

 calyx ^-f in., with narrowly lanceolate wings, corolla 

 tube equal to the calyx in length, lobes \ in., ovate, 

 with broad blunt tips, otherwise like the last species 

 but the capsule and seeds much larger. This plant 

 and the preceding are used as laxatives and nerve 

 tonics by Indians. 



