348 Plants of the Punjab. 
Heras, Erecr, with ALTERNATE ExstipuLATE SimMpLE LEAVEs. 
Lear Mareins Loornep. 
PETALS NONE. 
Chrozophora see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
tinetoria, : 
Chrozophora obliqua, see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
Chrozophora plicata, see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
Acalyph small, annual, weak, straggling, more or less velvety, 
prachystachya, nettle-like ; leaves 1-3 in., ovate, pointed, round-toothed, 
EUPHORBIACE. base heart-shaped ; flowers minute, green, in small sessile 
EF. B. I. v. 416. clusters in short axillary spikes } in. long, both sexes on the 
Himalaya, same spike, male flowers few, at the end of spikes, sepals 4, 
4-8,000 ft. stamens 8, female fiowers 1-3, sessile, in the axils of bracts, 
Simla (Collett). cut into 3 linear, entire, one-nerved, blunt spreading lobes, 
Acalypha ciliata, 
Kuppi, kokal. 
HUPHORBIACE. 
F. B. I. v. 417. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Subathu. 
sepals 3-4, styles free, thread-like, long, divided into comb- 
like processes ; capsules roughly hairy within the bracts, 
3-celled, 3-seeded, seeds nearly round, nearly smooth. 
like the last species but larger, leaves 2-3 in., sharply 
toothed, long-pointed, spikes # in., bracts of female flowers 
pale coloured, usually 6-10, circular, with a long marginal 
fringe, capsule smooth. ‘This plant acts as a laxative and 
vermifuge. 
Herss, Erect, wirh AurprNaAte Exstiputate LoBup LEAVES. 
Adonis eestivalis, 
RANUNCULACER. 
Fart. ao. 
The Plains from 
1-6,000 ft. 
Rawalpindi, 
Peshawar, 
Kashmir, Hazara, 
Kotgarh (Collett). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, annual, nearly smooth, leafy, branched or 
not ; leaves much lobed and divided into thread-like seg- 
ments, sessile; flowers 4 in. diam., yellow or scarlet with 
a purple centre, solitary at the end of stem or branches, 
sepals 5, ovate, green or slightly coloured, soon falling 
off, petals 5-8, longer than the sepals, spreading, stamens 
many, fruit ovoid or oblong, of many, small, wrinkled, 
pitted carpels, tipped with the persistent styles, closely 
allied to the Pheasant’s eye, Adonis autumnalis of Britain. 
