Plants of the Punjab. 137 
Hurss, HREcT, witH Opposite STrPpuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Euphorbia 
hypericifolia, 
HUPHORBIACE. 
HB. fh. v:. 249. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree Valleys 
(Douie). 
Euphorbia Emodi, 
KUPHORBIACE. 
Be tev; 250: 
Himalaya, 
4-7,500 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Kulu, Chamba, 
Lahul. 
Euphorbia pilulifera, 
Dudhi. 
HUPHORBIACEM. 
BBs bev 250). 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valley below 
Simla (Collett). 
Bhera (Douie). 
Euphorbia 
Clarkeana, 
Urtica pilulifera, 
The Roman Nettle, 
URTICACER. 
Be Ba lsy, 548: 
‘ Himalaya, 
5-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Lear Marains TootHEep. 
PETALS NONE. 
small, annual, slender, smooth, juice milky; leaves 
3-1 by 3-4 in., shortly stalked, oblong, tip rounded, mar- 
gins toothed except at the base, margins may be reddish, 
stipules minute, bristly, divided or none; flowers minute 
in terminal or axillary clusters, often with two floral leaves 
at the base, 4 sepals or teeth 4 with 5 green glands in the 
angles, stamens several, surrounding a 3-angled ovary 
on a stalk hanging down on one side, styles 3, very short, 
branched ; capsule 3-lobed, velvety, splitting into 8 valves, 
one smooth seed in each cell. The seeds, hazardana, are 
given in children’s colic. 
small, annual, hairy, purplish, juice milky, branches 
straggling from the short stout stem; leaves }-3 in., in 
rather distant pairs, green with a purple blotch, oblong 
or linear-oblong, tip blunt, stipules toothed, fringed ; 
flower clusters = in. long, nearly sessile and solitary, 
like the last species but glands purple with white or rose 
coloured ends, styles slender; capsule shortly stalked, 
smooth, slightly angled, seeds angled with slight projec- 
tions. 
small, annual, juice milky, stem and branches 1-2 ft., 
very hairy, leaves 3-14 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, tip 
sharp, stalked, toothed, stipules minute, linear, flower 
clusters ;', in., many in terminal and axillary, sessile or 
stalked bunches, glands small, round, capsule ,}; in. diam., 
hairy, seeds ovoid ;in other respects like the other species 
of Euphorbia. The plant is used as a purgative. 
see Herbs, Prostrate, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 
small, annual, covered with stinging hairs; leaves 
1-3 in. long, ovate, teeth very long, often linear, sharp- 
pointed, thin, stalked; flowers minute, green, 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. 
