PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



971 



Herbs krect with Opposite Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margins Toothed. 



Petals None. 



Euphorbia pilulifera, 



EUPHORBIACE.E. 

 F. B. I. V. 250. 

 The Plains tu 4,000 ft. 

 Valleys below 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Bhora (Dome). 



capsule shortly stalked, smooth, slightly angled, seeds 

 angled with slight projections. 



small, annual, juice milky, stem and branches 1-2 ft., 

 very hairy ; leaves '^~\^ ins. long, oblong-lanceolate, 

 tip sharp, stalked, toothed, stipules minute linear ; 

 flower clusters ^jj in. many in terminal and axillary, 

 sessile or stalked bunches, glands small, round ; 

 capsule .S i'l- diam.. hairy, seeds ovoid, in other 

 respects like the other species of Euphorbia. 



Euphorbia Clarlseana, see Herbs, Prostrade, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 



XTrtica pilulifera, 

 The Boman liTettle , 



URTlCACEiE. 

 F. B. I. i. 548. 

 Himalaya, 5-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Urtica parviflora, 

 Drticaces. 



F. B I. V. 548. 

 Himalaya, 5-12,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Vrtica licica, 



The English ITettle, 



URTICACR.E. 

 F. B. I. V. 548. 

 Salt range. 



Himalaya, 7-10,000 ft. 

 Simla, Hattu (Colletty 



small, annual, covered with stinging hairs ; leaves 

 1-3 ins, long, ovate, teeth very long, often linear, 

 sharp-pointed, thin, stalked ; flowers green, minute, 

 male in slender branching spikes, female in round 

 heads, both on the same plant, male sepals 4, concave, 

 ovate, stamens 4, curled up in bud, straightening with 

 a jerk when the flower opens, female sepals 4, flat, 

 unequal, stigma of a small tuft of hairs ; carpel held 

 by the sepals, flattened. An introduced European 

 weed found near houses. 



medium size, root perennial, stem annual, slender 

 but little branched, with blunt angles, covered with 

 stinging hairs ; leaves 2-4 by 1-2^ ins., ovate or lanceo- 

 late, long-pointed, wrinkled, teeth small, irregularly 

 jagged, stalk \-'i ins. long, stipules united, ovate- 

 oblong ; flowers green, minute in slender spreading 

 axillary and terminal branching pyramidal clusters, 

 male and females on the same plant and like those of 

 the last species. 



like the last, but often stouter, stem grooved, teeth 

 large, regular, stipules ununited, male and female 

 flowers on .separate plants. 



