354 Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, EReot, with ALTERNATE ExstrpuLATE Lopep LEAVES. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
Argemone Mexicana, medium size to large, annual, juice yellow, smooth 
Mexican or Prickly with bluish-green waxy gloss, prickly ; leaves 3-7 in., ob- 
Poppy, long, cut into pinnate, spinous toothed segments, thistle- 
Sialkanta, like, half stem-clasping, variegated green and white ; 
bher-band. flowers 1-2 in. diam., bright yellow, terminal on short leafy 
PAPAVERACER. branches, sepals 8, prickly, ovate, produced below the tip 
Bag. Al: into a short horn, petals 6, stamens very many, style 
The Plains to very short, stigma 4-6-lobed; capsule 1-14 in., oblong- 
5,000 ft. ovoid, prickly, opening by 4-6 valves, seeds many, round, 
Badrighat below surface netted. Oil is expressed from the seeds for illumi- 
Jutogh (Collett). nating purposes, it is used as an aperient in half drachm 
doses, the juice is used in dropsy, jaundice and skin 
diseases. 
Meconopsis aculeata, medium size, annual, prickly ; leaves 4-8 in., oblong 
Gudi, kunda. or lanceolate, long-pointed, divided pinnately into seg- 
PAPAVERACER. ments, long-stalked, stem leaves sessile; flowers 2-3 in. 
Pb. 118. diam., bright blue-purple in simple or branched racemes, 
Himalaya, stalks slender, prickly in fruit, sepals 2-8, petals 4-5, stamens 
11-15,000 ft. many, style half as long as the capsule, stigmatic lobes 
The Cher radiating on its clubbed extremity ; capsuleffi-2 in., 
(Collett). oblong, short, densely prickly, seeds many, small, wrinkled. 
Kashmir. In Kashmir the root is supposed to have narcotic pro- 
Marali. perties. 
Corydalis Govaniana, see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
Corydalis see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed 
Moorcroftiana, 
Corydalis see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 
Gortschakovii, 
Corydalis cornuta, small to medium size, root spindle-shaped, perennial, 
FUMARIACER. stems often prostrate, succulent, branched ; leaves long- 
HD. 4. 20. stalked, much divided, leaflets deeply lobed, segments 
Himalaya, small, ovate ; flowers 4-2 in., yellow, tips purple, in terminal 
8-10,000 ft. many-flowered dense long racemes, bracts small lobed 
Simla (Collett). or entire, sepals 2, small, scale-like, petals 4, erect, tips 
converging, the two outer larger than the two inner, united 
at the base, the upper one broad, concave, produced into 
a hollow spur, curved blunt at the tip, lower one flat, narrow, 
inner petals narrow, stalked, keeled, stamens 6 in 2 sets of 
three, lower set with spurs projecting into the petal spur, 
style thread-like, stigma 2-lobed; capsule 4 in., ovate, 
e-valved, seeds several, opaque. 
