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Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Silene apetala, 



CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 



F. B. I. i. 218. 

 The Plains. 

 Peshawar (Vicary, 

 Stewart). 



Ammania pentandra, 



Lythracejs. 

 F. B. I. ii. 568. 

 The Plains, in moist 

 places. 



Ammania baccifera, 



Dadmari, pampa. 



LyTHRACEjE. 



F. B. I. ii. 569. 

 The Plains, in moist 

 places. 



Ammania salicifolia, 



LYTHRACEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 569. 

 The Plains. 



Petals None. 



medium size, stem branched or not, annual, grey- 

 velvety ; leaves 1-1^ in., linear oblong, long-pointed ; 

 flowers J-| in., long, green (as the petals, if present, 

 are enclosed within the green calyx), in irregular 

 clusters in one-sided racemes, bracts sharp pointed, 

 calyx J-g- in., bell-shaped base, a reversed cone with 

 5 short teeth, and 10 green hairy ridges, petals 

 none or if any, minute, red, stamens 10, styles 3 

 (rarely 5) ; capsule round, shortly stalked, 3-6 

 valved, seeds flat grooved with a double corrugated 

 margin. 



small, annual, smooth, much branched with many 

 flowers ; leaves 1 in. long, oblong with rounded 

 ends, sessile, floral leaves bract like, oblong, broad 

 based ; flowers small, solitary, sessile in the axils of 

 leaves, bracteoles awl-shaped as long as the calyx, 

 calyx teeth 10, 5 of which are accessory, lanceolate 

 long pointed, petals, if any, pink, 5, stamens 8, 

 inserted about the middle of the calyx tube, style 

 thread like or short ; capsule round, depressed, 

 3-celled, seeds many black, half round, hollowed on 

 the flat side. 



small, annual, rarely large, smooth ; leaves 2-5 in. 

 long, narrow, but blunt pointed, narrow at the base; 

 flowers small in dense clusters forming knots on the 

 stem, bracts thread like, shorter than the flower 

 stalks, calyx widely bell-shaped, teeth 4, broadly 

 triangular, accessory folds or teeth very small, 

 petals none, or very minute, stamens and style as 

 in the last species, capsule like the last, but open- 

 ing all round, about the middle, seeds like the last. 

 The leaves are used for blistering. 



medium size, annual, smooth, branched ; leaves 2 

 by ^ in., lanceolate, rounded at the base, sessile ; 

 other characters like the last species. 



