Plants of the Punjab. | 815 
Heres, Erect, wirt ALTERNATE ExsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Zerua javanica, 
/Erua lanata, 
Bui-kalan. 
AMARANTACES. 
BS Boley: 428. 
The Plains to 
9,000 ft. 
Kahuta, Rawalpindi 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Chenopodium album, 
Atriplex crassifolia, 
CHENOPODIACEA. 
Rage ler v.60: 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Lahore. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Axyris 
amaranthoides, 
CHENOPODIACES. 
BiB leye 8: 
Himalaya, 
8-13,000 ft. 
Lahul. 
Lear Maroins ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
FLOWERS IN TERMINAL CHAFFY SPIKES. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small to medium size, stock woody, much branched, 
woolly, sometimes prostrate ; leaves 3-1 in., ovate or or- 
bicular, stalked, woolly or smooth ; flowers minute, scent- 
ed, woolly, not glistening in spikes, 4-3} in., crowded, 
forming nearly round clusters, all axillary, sessile, sepals 
4-5, short, blunt, all or inner only woolly, stamens 4-5, 
united below with interposed linear staminodes into a cup. 
The flowers and roots are used to cure headache. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Hxstipulate, 
Toothed. 
Simple, 
medium size, annual, stem and branches whitish ; 
leaves 1-14 in., oblong or ovate, tip-pointed or blunt, 
base wedge-shaped or forked, stalked, not thick ; flowers, 
one sexual, male and female on the same plant, male 
without bracts, sepals 3-5, oblong, blunt, stamens 3-5, 
in clusters on slender leafless, long, terminal interrupted 
spikes, female with 2 bracts, sepals none, stigmas 2 ; fruit 
enclosed by the much enlarged leaflike bracts, each with a 
convex, smooth, thick, white, disk at its base, female 
in small axillary clusters on the lower part of the 
branches. 
PETALS NONE. 
small, annual, with star-shaped hairs or smooth, 
gtem stout or slender, branched from the base; leaves 
1.11 in., ovate or oblong, blunt or short-pointed, stalk 
short or slender, when dry, pale yellowish or reddish-brown ; 
flowers minute without bracts, male and female on the 
same plant, male in terminal clusters with 8-5 thin trans- 
parent sepals, and 2-5 slender stamens, female axillary, 
solitary or mixed with the males, with 3-4 unequal thin 
sepals ; fruit membranous, held by the sepals, flattened 
or spherical, tip shortly winged or crested, stigmas hair- 
like, very long. 
