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PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



A BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE KEY TO THE FLORA OF THE PUNJAB, 

 NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE AND KASHMIR. 



Lieut. -Colonel 0. J. Bamber, f.l.s. 



Indian Medical Service. 



Paet VI. 



(Continued from page 502 of Volume XX.) 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 

 Corolla Two-lipped. 



Antirrhinum Orontium, 

 Corn Snap Dragon. 



Scrophulariace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 253. 

 The Plains to 6,000 ft. 

 Simla in fields 



(Collett). 

 Dharmpur (Bomford). 

 Kahuta (Donie). 



Stamens Four. 



small, annual or biennial, slender smooth below, 

 glandular above, branched from below ; leaves 

 opposite below, alternate above, ^ in., linear, rarely 

 oblong lanceolate ; flowers pale pink, with purple 

 streaks, § in. long, solitary and sessile in the axils 

 of the upper leaves, calyx lobes 5, linear, over- 

 topping the corolla, corolla ■§ in. long, flattened, 

 bulged at the base, 2-lipped, upper erect, 2-lobed, 

 lower lip horizontal, 8-lobed, base broad, bearded, 

 closing the throat, which is forced open by bees, 

 stamens 4 in unequal pairs, within the corolla, 

 style threadlike, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule ^ in. long, 

 ovoid, velvety, 2-celled, many seeded, anterior cell 

 opening by one pore, posterior by two toothed 

 pores, or both cells by one pore, seeds minute, 

 oblong, abruptly ended, wrinkled or pitted. 



