390 
“Plants of the Punjab. 
Hurss, Erucr, with ALTERNATE ExsTIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Gynandropsis 
pentaphylla, 
Kathal, parhar. 
CAPPARIDACEA. 
EMS; 1.1, 170. 
The Plains. 
Gurdaspur. 
Boenninghausenia 
albiflora, 
Pissu mar. 
Rutace®. 
BABI, 1 496; 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree. 
Dietamnus albus, 
RUTACE. 
BeBOL 10487. 
Himalaya, 
6-8,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Vicatia coniifolia, 
UMBELLIFER®. 
PB; O74: 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Hattu (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, annual, glandular-velvety ; leaves digi- 
tately compound, long-stalked, leaflets 1-2 in., broad ovate 
with a broad tip, short-pointed or blunt, entire or slightly 
toothed ; flowers 4-2 in., white or purplish in sticky racemes, 
bracts 3-lobed, sepals 4, erect, petals 4, spreading, long- 
stalked, open in bud, stamens 6, joined below to the slender 
stalk of the capsule, stigma sessile ; capsule 2-4 in., long- 
stalked, nearly smooth, valves 2, seeds many, kidney- 
shaped, black, rough. A common weed. The leaves are 
eaten as a pot herb. The seeds are used medicinally like 
those of the last species. 
medium size, perennial, rooted, smooth or slightly 
velvety ; leaves twice pinnate, stalk slender, leaflets 1-3 
in., ovate or heart-shaped with a broad tip, bluish waxy 
green beneath, terminal largest, stalked ; flowers 4-4 in. 
diam., white, inclined or uodding in compound terminal 
leafy many-flowered racemes, calyx very small, 4-5-lobed, 
persistent, petals 4-5, oblong, blunt, stamens 6-8, styles 
3-5; fruit 4-4 in. of 6-8 free papery, few-seeded, dotted 
carpels, seeds kidney-shaped, black. The leaves when 
erushed have a foetid odour. 
medium size, perennial, strongly scented, covered with 
small glands, stem thick, not woody; leaves 6-12 in., 
stalk very thick, angular, pinnate, with a terminal leaflet, 
gland-dotted, leaflets 9-15, opposite, 2-4 in., sessile, ovate- 
lanceolate, toothed, dark green; flowers 1-14 in. long, 
pink or white in an erect terminal raceme, 6-12 in. long, 
sepals 5, small, lanceolate, petals 5, much longer than 
the sepals, lanceolate, nearly equal, spreading, stamens 
10, equal to the petals in length, hairy, glandular, bristle- 
tipped ; capsule 1 in. diam., of 5 carpels, 2-3-seeded, to- 
mentose, beaked, seeds black, shining. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN UMBELS. 
medium size, perennial, smooth, stem striate, slightly 
leafy ; leaves thrice pinnate, leaflets pimnately divided, 
segments linear, short-pointed ; flowers minute, dark red, 
mm compound umbels, main stalk 2-6 in., bracts linear, 
usually only one 4 in., primary rays 6-12, 4-2 in. long, stiff, 
unequal, bracteoles 3-6, often as long as the umbellules, 
calyx-teeth none, petals 5, ovate, with a broad tip ; fruit 
§-§ in., dise prominent, style short, carpels ovate, broadly 
grooved on the inner face, ridges slender, distinct, not 
winged, oil glands (vitte) 2-3 in each furrow. 
