Plants of the Punjab. — 811 
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_ Heures, Breor, wirn ALTERNATE ExstrpuLATH SIMPLE LuaveEs, 
Wikstremia 
canescens, 
Diarthron 
vesiculosum, 
 THYMELBACES. 
He Br lieve 196: 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Peshawar (Vicary). 
Baluehistan 
(Boissier). 
Thesium himalense, 
Euphorbia Wallichii, 
“RUPHORBIACE. 
HB. dev..258. 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Chamba. 
Jammu. 
Euphorbia pilosa, 
Hairy Spurge, 
HUPHORBIACER. 
HO Bekv. 260. 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree, 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE, 
PETALS NONE. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
small, annual, slender, much branched, leafy ; leaves. 
3-2 in., linear, nerveless, somewhat waxy. bluish-green, 
segsile, blunt or almost pointed ; flowers minute, on very 
short stalks in slender racemes, + in. long, lengthening 
to 1 in. in fruit, calyx } in. long, urn-shaped or tube very 
slender, closing over the fruit, bladder-like when the fruit 
does not ripen, lobes 4, spreading, stamens 8, in two series 
anthers almost sessiley lower smaller than the upper ; 
fruit +44-4'5 in. long, dry, narrowly ovoid. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
medium size to large, stock perennial, stems annual 
velvety above, branched or not, juice milky ; leaves 3-5 
in., linear or oblong, with rounded ends or ovate with a 
broad-pointed tip, sessile, thin, nerves many, spreading 
floral leaves 14 in. diam., clustered at the end of stem or 
branches, 3-4, large, rounded or oblong, ovate, short- 
pointed ; flowers Lin. diam., in compound umbels, rays 
and flower stalks few, short, male and female organs in 
one cup-shaped 4-5-lobed calyx, lobes almost concealed 
by 5 horizontal kidney-shaped glands placed in their 
angles, glands smooth, rounded, fleshy, margins woolly 
stamens many, anthers globular, surrounding a pulled 
orbicular 3-lobed capsule hanging down on one side, styles 
3, united to the middle, dividing into 2; capsule 4 in. 
diam., consisting of 8 woody one-seeded cells; seeds 4 
in., smooth, grey-blue. 
very like the last species but smaller, bracts yellow- 
ereen, flowers smaller, glands yellow, styles long ; capsule 
Lin, diam., covered more or less with small, often minute- 
ly hairy tubercles, seeds smooth, 
