Plants of the Punjab. 383 
Ss 
Heres, ERECT WitH ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE LoBED Lravus. 
Solanum 
xanthoearpum, 
Katehi, rinyni. 
SOLANACER. 
Be By Lviv. 286. 
The Plains to 
7,000 fi. * 
Simla, 
Baluchistan 
(Lace). 
Lycopersicum 
esculentum, 
Physalis minima, 
Physalis peruviana, 
Nicandra 
physaloides, 
SOLANACER. 
EF. Bul. iv. 240. 
Himalaya, 
3-6,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Datura Stramonium, 
Thorn apple, 
Tattur, dattura. 
SOLANACEA. 
F. B. I. iv. 242. 
Himalaya, 
3-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir (Thomson). 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS NOT IN HEADS, 
small, very prickly, spreading, rough with star-shaped 
hairs ; leaves 2-4 in., oblong, pinnately divided, nerves. 
on both surfaces armed with long straight prickles ; flowers 
1 in. diam., blue, solitary or in small clusters, calyx 1in., 
lobes ovate-oblong, prickly, hardly enlarging in fruit, 
corolla lobes shallow, velvety without ; berry 4-3 in. diam., 
round, yellow or whitish with green blotches, seeds zy In. 
diam., smooth. This plant is much used as an expecto- 
rant and diuretic. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
PETALS UNITED. 
medium size to large, annual, smooth, native of Peru; 
leaves 4-7 in., ovate-lanceolate, irregularly lobed and 
toothed ; flowers 1-13 in. diam., single on recurved, usually 
axillary stalks, clayx divided into 5 lobes, lobes in fruit 
1 by 3 in., much enlarged, ovate, heart-shaped at the base, 
overlapping the berry, net-veined, corolla bell-shaped, 
5-lobed in pleats, stamens 5, attached at corolla-bage, 
style linear, stigma 3-5-lobed ; berry } in. diam. round, 
seeds very many, flattened, nearly discoid. This plant is 
said to be diuretic. 
large, annual, nearly smooth ; leaves 7 by 4 in., ovate, 
coarsely and irregularly lobed and toothed, stalk 1 in. : 
flowers 3-6 in. long, 1-3 in. across, white, single on short 
usually axillary stalks, calyx 1-13 by 4-1 in., green, 5- 
toothed, tubular, corolla tubular, funnel-shaped, mouth 
wide, 5-lobed, lobes 4 in., folding at the angles, lobes ending 
in long narrow points, stamens 5, attached near the base 
of the tube, not protruding, style thread-like, stigma 
2-lobed ; capsule 14 by 1 in., ovoid, erect, covered with 
rigid sharp prickles, 4-celled, opening by 4 valves, seeds 
many, flattened, wrinkled. The seeds are used for poison- 
ing, and medicinally for asthma, the leaves are algo used 
for the latter purpose. 
