PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



811 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margins Entire. 



Petals None. 



Ammania senegalensis, 



Lythrace^e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 570. 

 The Plains to 5,000 ft. 

 Common in rice fields. 



Ammania multiflora, 



LYTHRACE.E. 



F. B. I. ii. 570. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, annual, smooth branches 4-angled ; 

 leaves 1-2 in. long, lanceolate, sessile, nearly ear- 

 lobed at the base ; flowers minute in small shortly 

 stalked clusters, calyx bell-shaped, 4 short teeth, 

 petals, if any, 4, pink, stamens 6 or 8, capsule — j ¥ in. 

 diam., round, larger than the calyx tube, red when 

 ripe, seeds as in the last species. 



very like the last species, but the flowers and 

 capsule are smaller. 



Oxybaphus FiimaSaicus, 



Punac, bhans. 

 Nyctaginace^e. 

 F. B. I, iv. 708. 

 Himalaya, 6-9,000 ft. 

 Kulu (Edgeworth). 



Bcerhaavia etegans, 

 Sunt. 



Nyctaginace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 709. 

 The Plains. 

 Kahuta (Douie). 

 Baluchistan. 



Cyathula towerttosa, 

 Amarantace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 722. 

 Himalaya, 2-6,500 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



large, glandular hairy, sticky, branched ; leaves 

 l^-2f in. ovate, short pointed leaf, stalk ^-1 in. long; 

 flowers pink, small, solitary on long slender axillary 

 stalks forming a loose cluster, one bract forming 

 a 5-toothed cup, J in. long, surrounding the calyx, 

 calyx pink, tube short lobed, lobes soon falling off, 

 stamens 4, united below, enclosed within the calyx 

 tube; fruit J in. long, ovoid, rough black. This 

 plant is used for fodder. 



large, shrubby, much branched, leaves 1-1^ in. 

 long, few, linear oblong or oblong lanceolate, blunt, 

 fleshy with a hoar frostlike bloom ; flowers minute, 

 in very large two or three times divided clusters on 

 very long slender main and minor stalks, calyx 

 funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, petals none, stamens 1-5, 

 projecting; fruit r^ in. long, narrowly oblong with 

 rounded ends, strongly ribbed, quite smooth. The 

 seeds are eaten. The leaves are used as a diuretic. 



large, felted or woolly, branches nearly 4-angled ; 

 leaves 2-10 in. long, oblong, pointed at both ends 

 rarely round, shortly stalked, £~§ in. ; flowers 

 white shining in small clusters crowded in 

 round heads forming terminal spikes, each cluster 



