PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



499 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



Martynia diandra, 

 Nelsonia campestns, 



ACANTHACE^E. 



F. B. I. iv. 394. 



The Plains, to 4,000 ft. 



Stamens Two. 



stamens 2, two aborted much smaller, style long, 

 capsule ^ in. oblong with a short point, seeds 4 or 

 less, silky. The seeds are supposed to cure snake 

 bite, the leaves and roots to reduce swelling. 



Corolla Two-Lipped. 



Stamens Two. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



small, annual, woolly, with trailing flower stems 

 1-3 ft. long ; leaves of the main stem 4-8 in. long, 

 oblong with rounded ends, stalked, flowering stem- 

 leaves nearly sessile, §-2 ins. ; flowers i in., purple 

 or white, in crowded ovate or cylindric mostly sessile 

 spikes §-2 ins. long, terminal on lateral branches, 

 bracts ts-J in., ovate, blunt, woolly with glands, 

 green, calyx -g in. green, marked with longitudinal 

 lines, hairy or nearly papery, corolla ^ in., tube 

 slender, 2-lipped, lobes 5, blunt, spreading, stamens 

 2, attached above the middle of the tube, style 

 2-lobed ; capsule g--i in., oblong, short-pointed, 

 seeds 8-12, yellowish with brown granular marks, 

 ovoid with rounded ends. 



Andrographis echiodes, 



AcANTHACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 505. 

 The Plains. 



small to medium size, annual, velvety and with 

 spreading white hairs ; leaves 2-| by 1 in., oblong, 

 blunt, sessile, base narrowed ; flowers pink or white 

 with purple, f-^ in., in dense hairy sticky axillary 

 racemes about the length of the leaves on very 

 short flower stalks, bracts small, bracteoles minute 

 or none, calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes |-J in., linear, 

 in fruit sometimes -| in., corolla ^-J * n -> tubular 

 2-lipped, white or pink with dark-purple lower lip, 

 velvety, stamens 2, filaments hairy, anthers pro- 

 truding, white bearded, style slender, minutely 



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