Plants of the Punjab. — 408 
Heres, EReEcT, WITH ALTERNATE ExstrepuLaATE ComMpouNnD LEAVES. 
Lycopersicum 
esculentum, 
The Tomato, 
Bhatte, 
Villayati-bangan. 
SOLANACES. 
Heeb. Do ivy.257. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Amphicome arguta, 
BIGNONIACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 385. 
Himalaya, 
7-8,000 ft. 
Road between 
Theog and Matiana, 
on rocks (Collett). 
Amphicome emodi, 
BIGNONIACEH. 
BL B. Liv. 885. 
Himalaya, 
2-9,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley, 
Subathu, on rocks, 
Jagoti, Rohru Valley. 
Kashmir. 
Thalictrum elegans, 
RANUNCULACES. 
BB ea. 
Himalaya, 
10-18,000 ft. 
Hazara, the Chor 
(Collett). 
PETALS UNITED. 
large, annual, velvety ; leaves 3-6 in., pinnate, leaflets 
toothed ; flowers 2 in. diam., yellow, in few-flowered stalked 
clusters, sepals 5-6, narrow, corolla wheel-shaped, tube 
very short, lobes 5-6-fid, folded in bud, stamens 5-6, on 
the corolla tube converging in a long cone ; berry }in. diam., 
red, round, in cultivation much enlarged, of varying shape, 
seeds many, flattened, covered with minute projections. 
This South American plant is widely cultivated and is found 
as an escape. 
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medium size, perennial, woody at the base, smooth; 
leaves 3-5 in., pinnate, leaflets 5-7, lanceolate, and one 
longest sometimes lobed ; flowers 13-2 in. long, }-% in. wide 
at the mouth, pink in erect or drooping racemes, calyx 3 in., 
teeth linear, short-pointed, corolla funnel-shaped, tube 
curved, lobes entire, stamens 4, in unequal pairs, anthers 
facing each other, with a tooth-like process at the base 
of the stamen ; capsule 4-8 in. by 4-4, slender, cylin- 
drical, seeds 4 by 3, in., with a transparent wing on each 
side, which is split into strips. 
very like the last species, but the leaves are larger, 
leaflets more numerous, flowers larger, tube tinged with 
yellow. 
PETALS NONE. 
small, perennial, slender, stiff; leaves 9-3 in., stalks 
long, sheathing, compound, leaflets § in., 8-lobed, 
stalked, bluish-green below; flowers very small, green 
purple, in branching racemes, sepals 4-9, petal-like, soon 
falling off, petals none, stamens many, thread-like, pro- 
jecting beyond the sepals; fruit a head of small stalked 
achenes ; achenes 6-12, shorter than their stalks, thin, 
ventrate (?) suture winged, stigmas nearly lateral, incurved. 
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