Plants of the Punjab. 847 
Heres, Ergot, with ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Chenopodium 
opulifolium, 
Chenopodium 
Blitum, 
Sundar, kwpald. 
CHENOPODIACE. 
Be Ble vad. 
Kashmir, 8,500 ft. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Euphorbia pilosa, 
Euphorbia 
micractina, 
HUPHORBIACEA. 
Bebe dive 2b. 
Kashmir on Pir 
Panjal 
(Jacquemont), 
Euphorbia 
helioscopia, 
Sun spurge, 
Gunda-bute, 
chatriwal, 
HKUPHORBIACEA, 
FE. Biv: 262. 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett), 
Gurgaon. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Euphorbia falcata, 
e 
Lear Mareins TootHep. 
PETALS NONE. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
medium size, smooth, stem rather stout, white ; leaves 
1-3 in., bright green, triangular, base forked or heart-shap- 
ed, long-pointed, deeply unequally toothed, stalk slender, 
longer or shorter than the blade ; flowers }-4 in. diam., in 
sessile axillary clusters and in terminal leafy spikes, sepals 
1-3, succulent, berry-hke in fruit, not enclosing the 
seed vessel, stamen 1, seed smooth, margin blunt, opaque. 
see Herbs, Hrect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Hntire. 
small, perennial, slightly hairy, stems short ; leaves 
minute below, $ in. higher up the stem, oblong with rounded 
ends, distant rounded teeth, floral leaves equal to the rays, 
clustered at the end of stem or branches ; flowers in com- 
pound umbels, rays (flower stalks) 4-3 in., male and female 
organs in one cup-shaped 4-5-lobed calyx, lobes ovate with 
few scattered hairs, almost concealed by 5 horizontal kidney- 
shaped glands placed in their angles,glands smooth, rounded, 
fleshy, margins woolly, stamens many, anthers globular, 
surrounding a stalked orbicular depressed, warted, 3-lobed 
capsule, hanging down on one side, styles 8, united at the 
base, dividing into 2 seeds 74, in. diam., ovoid. 
small to medium size, annual, smooth, much branched 
above, leaves 3-2 in., stem leaves ovate, with a broad tip 
or oblong, narrowed into the stalk, leaves round the flowers 
2-4, small, flowersin umbels agin the last species, rays 5, 
calyx ;'5 in. diam., top-shaped, smooth, 4-lobed, glands 
yellow, rounded, entire, styles ununited, capsule § in, 
diam., smooth, seeds minutely net-veined ; for other charac- 
ters see the last species. The juice is used in skim diseases, 
and the seed as a vermifuge. 
see Herbs, Hrect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Fintire. 
