316 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, HrRecr, with ALTERNATE ExsgipULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Kochia indica, 
Kaura ro. 
CHENOPODIACEA. 
7s oly] a en 
The Plains. 
Halocharis 
sulphurea, 
CHENOPODIACEA. 
Pepa Vv. 19. 
The Plains of 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Baluchistan 
(Aitchison). 
Phytolacea acinosa, 
Lubar, rinsag, 
sarunga. 
PHYTOLACCACEA). 
Bap. Lay. ol. 
Himalaya, 
4-9,000 ft. 
Hazara. 
Kashmir. 
Thymeleea arvensis, 
THYMELAACEA. 
Piel. ve 194: 
The Plains below 
Jammu. 
Kashmir. 
Ramu, 6,000 ft. 
Lear Mareins EntIRe. 
PETALS NONE. 
small, annual, softly hairy, branched from the base, 
branchlets long, widely separating ; leaves small, oblong 
with rounded ends or linear-oblong, short-pointed, sessile ; 
flowers minute, male and female sometimes separate, 
bractless, sepals 5 in., curved, in fruit closing over, leathery 
with 5 free or united horizontal, ovate, blunt, thick wings, 
forming a broad triangular calyx, stamens 5, anthers large, 
protruding, style slender, stigmas 2-3, thread-like, seed 
orbicular. 
small, annual, hairy with long bristles; leaves $-1 
in. long, linear, blunt-tipped, almost angled, sessile, in 
clusters at the end of branches, floral leaves equal to the 
hairy lanceolate bracteoles ; flowers in. diam., in headlike 
clusters, forming long spikes at the end of short branches, 
sepals 5, lanceolate, thin, transparent, outer softly hairy, 
stamens 5, on a fleshy disc, anthers lnear, connected 
by a long sessile yellow appendage, much longer and 
broader than the anther ; capsule enclosed by the sepals, 
ovoid, flattened, stigmas 2, slender, seed flattened. 
large, stout, fleshy, nearly smooth; leaves 6-10 by 
24-4 in., broadly lanceolate, long-pointed, narrowed into 
a short stalk; flowers } in. diam., green, on stalks 4 1n. 
long in leaf opposed cylindrical racemes, 2-6 in. long, 
bracts linear-lanceolate, thin, sepals 4, broadly oblong, 
blunt, stamens 8-10, united below, anthers soon  fall- 
ing off, fruit of 8-10 carpels, dark purple, fleshy, crowded 
in an erect stout raceme 4-8 in. long, one seed in each 
earpel, black, kidney-shaped, shining. This plant was 
introduced from China, is cultivated and found as an 
escape ; the leaves are cooked and eaten, but uncooked is 
poisonous, causing delirium. 
small to medium sige, annual, very slender, smooth, 
straight, branches few, leafy, erect ; leaves 4-3 1n., linear- 
lanceolate, long-pointed, nearly erect, sessile; flowers 4, 
in., sessile in all the leaf-axils, forming long, leafy, very 
slender spikes, bracts small, calyx urn-shaped or tubular, 
4-lobed, lobes erect, blunt, ovate, very short, stamens 8 
in 2 series, anthers nearly sessile ; fruit ;4-$ in. long, ovoid, 
dry, narrowed upwards. — 
