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Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, EREct, with ALTERNATE EXstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Withania coaguians, 
Datura stramonium, 
Datura fastuosa, 
Physoclaina 
prealta, 
SOLANACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 244. 
North Kashmir, 
12-15,500 it. 
Hyoscyamus niger, 
Henbane, 
Dandura, damtura, 
bazrbang. 
SOLANACEA. 
Bess avn 2, 
Himalaya, 
8-11,000 ft. . 
Narkanda (Collett). 
Quctta. 
Hyoseyamus 
pusillus, 
SOLANACE. 
FP. B. 1. 1v.245; 
Kashmir. 
Ladak, 10,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Luar Marerns ENTIRE. 
PBTALS UNITED. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
large, nearly smooth, branches clustered towards 
the top ; leaves 4-6 by 3 in., ovate-oblong, wavy margins, 
stalk 1-4 in.; flowers 3.12 in., stalked in a terminal 
flat-topped sticky velvety cluster 2-8 in. diam., calyx 4 
in., bell- shaped, lobes 5, 4 in., lanceolate, short, in fruit 
12 by 4 in., streaked, corolla 11 by 5 Ou 1., tubular, funnel- 
shaped, lobes 5, short, ov Alone in bud, stamens 5, 
attached at the middle of the tube, protruding, style 
thread-like, stigma barely 2-lobed, protruding ; capsule $ 
in. diam., 2- celled, seeds 1, in., very many, net-veined, 
flattened. This pant like Belladonna dilates the pupil of 
the eye ; it 1s poisonous to man, not to cattle; the leaves 
are used to reduce swellings. 
medium size to large, sticky, hairy with an unpleasant 
heavy odour, stem thick; leaves, radical leaves 6-8 in., 
entire or coarsely sinuate-toothed or lobed, spreading, 
oblong-ovate, stem-leaves smaller, sessile, ovate, lobed, 
changing into bracts above; flowers 1-1} in. diam., dark 
yellowish-green, veined with purple, sessile on one-sided 
spikes, rolled back at first, then straight, calyx ? in., tube 
ovoid, lobes funnel-shaped, 5-toothed, corolla funnel- 
shaped, lobes 5, spreading, unequal, broad, short, stamens 
5, protruding, style thread-lhke, longer than the stamens, 
stigma nearly round ; capsule 4 in. diam., enclosed in the 
swollen tube of the enlarged calyx, lower part papery, 
upper oe opening along the line between the two parts, 
seeds ,', in., very many. ‘This plant is sedative, anodyne 
and Rea ; it is much used in Kuropean medicine, 
very like the last, but lower leaves smaller, often 
lobed, stem leaves stalked, often lobed, calyx streaked, 
smoothish, teeth lanceolate, corolla 3$-}? in., yellow, not 
net-veined. 
