PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



493 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leap Margins Entire. 



Swertia pan icu lata, 



Gentianace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 122. 

 Kashmir, 



Himalaya, 5-8,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 

 (Collett). 



Swertia tetragona, 



Gentianace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 122. 

 Himalaya, 5-8,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Simla, 

 Mashobra (Collett). 



Swertia cordata, 



Gentianace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 123. 

 Himalaya, 4-12,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 



(Collett). 

 Kuldana near Murree 



(Douie). 



Petals United. 



very like the last species, but the corolla-lobes 

 are white in the upper half with two purple spots 

 at the base forming a ring with gaps, one depres- 

 sion at the base of each lobe, ovate, naked, stamens 

 united to the corolla and not joined into a tube, 

 capsule long-pointed, seeds smaller. 



very like the last species, but stem more square, 

 corolla lobes white with two hairy oblong glands on. 

 each lobe, no style, two stigmas consisting of two 

 closely placed half round plates. 



medium size, annual, stem 4-ridged ; leaves \\ 

 by J in., ovate, short-pointed, 5-3-nerved, base often 

 heart-shaped, sessile ; flowers -|-§ in., yellowish- 

 white, margin streaked with purple in many 

 flowered branching racemes, calyx lobes | by £ in., 

 5, ovate-lanceolate, short-pointed, barely united, 

 corolla lobes 5, J-g in. oblong, short-pointed or 

 blunt, one large circular sticky naked yellowish 

 spot at the base of each lobe, stamens 5. linear, 

 hardly united at the base, style cylindric, stigmas 

 2 half round, capsule f by I, often barely \ in., 

 seeds l z in., nearly round, covered with raised rows 

 of glands. In North Kashmir the flowers are often 

 double. 



Swertia chirata, 

 Chiretta, 



Charayata. 



GENTIANACEyE. 



F. B. I. iv. 124. 



Himalaya, 4-10,000 ft. 



Kashmir, Simla, Chad- 

 wick Falls, Mashobra, 

 Matiana (Collett). 



Jaku (Bomford). 



medium size to large, annual, 4-ridged at the top, 

 rounded below ; leaves 2 by f in., broadly lanceo- 

 late, lower often much larger and stalked, stem 

 leaves nearly sessile, oblong, with rounded ends, 

 short-pointed, 5-nerved ; flowers bright green-yellow 

 with purple nerves, nearly J in. diameter, in large 

 leafy many-flowered branching recemes, sessile or 

 on short-clustered flower stalks, calyx lobes 4, J in., 

 lanceolate, distinctly united, corolla lobes 4, \ in. 



