Plants of the Punjab. 318 
Herss, Erect, with ALTERNATE EXXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Celosia argentea, 
Sarwali, sil, 
sarpankha. 
AMARANTACES. 
BEB Ss ay Piz: 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Dharmpuy. 
Celosia cristata, 
Cock’s comb, 
Lal-murgha, mawal, 
dhura-dru. 
AMARANTACEAI. 
He Bal iv. 7d. 
The Plains. 
Digera arvensis, 
Amarantus spinosus, 
Prickiy Amaranth, 
Kanta-nutwa. 
AMARANTACES. 
ee Bek: ty. 448: 
The Plains 
to 6,000 ft. 
Choa Saidan Shah 
(Dowie). 
Sainj. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett.) ‘ 
Lear Marcins ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
FLOWERS IN TERMINAL CHAFFY SPIKES. 
medium size to large, annual, smooth, stem stout or 
slender ; leaves 1-6 in., linear or lanceolate, stalked or sessile ; 
flowers $-31n., white or pinkish, glistening in long-stalked, 
simple or branched, cylindric, oblong or ovoid spikes, 
1-8 by #-1 in., looking like the flowering top of a grass, 
sepals 5, thin, shining, lanceolate, short-pointed, longer 
than the bracts, petals none, stamens 5, united below 
into a tube, style long, tip 2-lobed ; fruit dry, ovoid, en- 
closed in the sepals, short-pointed, seeds few. This 
plant is found in fields or near cultivation. The seeds 
are an excellent remedy for diarrhea. 
like the last species, but leaves broader and longer, 
flowers much smailer, §-} in., pink, red or yellow, spikes 
often branched with flattened united stalks. This plant 
is cultivated or found as an escape. The flowers are 
astringent and used in diarrhoea and menorrhagia. The 
seeds are demulcent. 
see Herbs, Prostrate, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
medium size to large, annual, green, sometimes 
red, stem hard, spines 2 in. and less, straight ; leaves 14-4 
by $#-2 in., ovate or oblong, blunt, long-stalked, base 
wedge-shaped, 5 spines in each leaf axil; flowers ; in. 
long, male and female separate in axillary clusters and 
in long dense or loose-flowered spikes, bract one, bristle- 
like, bracteoles 2 at the base of each flower, longer 
than the sepals, sepals of males long-pointed, of females 
blunt with a short point, stamens 5, stigmas 2; fruit 
wrinkled, nearly as long as the sepals, dividing by a cir- 
cular fissure below the top, top thickened, and divided into 
2 or 3, seeds 54, in. diam., black, shining, border blunt, 
not thickened. A weed of cultivation. The root is given 
as a demuleent. The plant is used as a pot herb. 
