Plants of the Punjab. 858 
Hers, Erect, wire ALTERNATE ExstiputaTe Losyp Luaves. 
Papaver hybridum, 
Poppy, 
PAPAVERACES. 
hBetdt §lTa 
The Plains west of 
the Jhelum, 
Peshawar, 
Rawalpindi. 
Papaver Rheas, 
Field poppy, 
Lala, lal post. 
PAPAVERACES. 
Hebel tel tT 
Himalaya, 
5-7,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Rawalpindi. 
Papaver dubium, 
Longheaded Poppy, 
PAPAVERACER. 
Bes ist. CLT. 
Himalaya, ° 
‘4-7,000 ft. 
Simla, in fields. 
(Collett). 
Papaver somniferum, 
Opium poppy, 
Post, afim. 
Pap AVERACEA. 
Bb ae 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Cultivated. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, annual, little branched, juice milky ;. leaves 
cut pinnately into segments, which are again cut, somewhat 
hairy, radical stalked, stem leaves sessile ; flowers 1-2 in. 
diam., scarlet with a black spot on long stalks, nodding in 
bud, sepals 2, ovate, hairy, blunt, concave, falling off as 
the flower opens, petals 4 in unequal pairs, crumpled 
in bud, soon falling off, stamens very many, thickened 
upwards, style none, 4 stigmatic rays on the capsule ; 
capsule } in. long, smooth, narrowly oblong, opening by 
pores close under the rim of the stigmatic disk, seeds many, 
kidney-shaped, small, surface minutely netted. 
very like the last species, but a little larger, flowers 
much larger, scarlet, capsule smooth, stalked, stigmatic 
rays 8-12. 
very like the last species, but often smooth, leaf seg: 
ments usually narrower, stigmatic rays 6-12, capsule 
ovoid, sessile. 
medium size to large, annual, smooth, often unbranch- 
ed, leaves oblong, stem-clasping, lobed and toothed, flowers 
large, whitish purple or scarlet, sepals smooth, stigmatic 
rays 5-12, capsule 1 in. diam., round, stalked, seeds white 
or black ; for other characters see the last species. Opium 
is the hardened juice which exudes from incisions made 
on the surface of the half ripened capsules. Oil is expressed 
from the seeds. 
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