Plants of the Punjab. 181 
Heres, Erect, witH Opposite ExstrpuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Pupalia lappacea, 
AMARANTACER. 
i, Be Poive 724. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Baluchistan. 
Nothoserua 
brachiata, 
AMARANTACE. 
wb: bry: 726. 
The Plains. 
Achyranthes aspera, 
The Prickly Chaff 
Flower, 
Latjira, chichra, 
kutrv. 
AMARANTACE. 
H.-B. I, tv. 730. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Rawalpindi. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Achyranthes 
bidentata, 
AMARANTACER. 
He B.. Wav. tos 
Himalaya, 
4-6,000 ft. 
Simla: (Collett). 
Atriplex hortensis, 
Atriplex crassiflolia, 
Lear Margins ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
large, straggling, felted, branches rounded; leaves 
2-4 in., broadly ovate to lanceolate and short-pointed, 
base sharp-pointed, leaf stalk 4-5 in.; flowers in small, 
distant or adjacent clusters, + in. diam., calyx of 5 
sepals, green, 3-nerved, densely woolly, reduced in im- 
perfect flowers to a process, bearing stellately spread- 
ing hooked bristles, petals none, stamens 5, nearly free 
below, staminodes none, style slender, stigma roundish ; 
fruit ovoid, flattened, seed one. 
medium size, annual, branched from the base, 
branches slightly velvety, spreading ; leaves 1-2 in., ovate, 
blunt or short-pointed, thin, green, stalk O-} in. ; flowers 
very minute, woolly, in axillary solitary or clustered little 
spikes, 4-4 in. long, white, calyx of 3-5, thin, colourless 
sepals 7, in. long, silky, one-nerved, petals none, stamens 
1-2, ununited, staminodes none, stigma nearly sessile ; 
fruit minute, oblong, flattened, seed one. 
large, straggling, branched or not, branches long 
and rambling ; leaves 3-5 by 2-3 in., ovate or round, thick, 
leathery, velvety or felted, shortly stalked ; flowers shin- 
ing, dull green or purplish, soon bending down, crowded 
in long rigid terminal unbranched spikes, 6-18 in. long, 
bracts and bracteoles somewhat spiny, calyx 4-1 in. long, 
5-fid, segments stiff, lanceolate, short-pointed, longer 
than the bracteoles, petals none, stamens 5, alternating 
and united below with 5 fringed staminodes, style long, 
stigma rounded ; fruit oblong, enclosed in the calyx, seed 
one, oblong. This plant is used as a diuretic, the ash con- 
tains much potash. 
very much like the last species, but much larger, 
leaves long-pointed with a slender tip, bracteoles usually 
reduced to a spine, and staminodes toothed, not fringed. 
see Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
Bee Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate. Simple. 
