EMERGENCY FOOD PLANTS AND POISONOUS PLANTS 



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are usually not found wild. Local names: Borotjo, sangsri, 

 kuntha, kindaydhan, kudidpa. 

 g. Alternanthera sessilis. — This is a common, widely dis- 



Piu»if 



PiGXJRE 35. — Celosia argentea. 



tributed, weedy plant, more or less ascending. It is found 

 in waste places, old rice paddies, along streams and ditches, 

 roadsides, about dwellings, in gardens, and in damp meadows. 



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