Plants of the Punjab. 497 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE EXstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Cautleya. lutea, 
ScITAMINER. 
F. B. I. iii. 208. 
Himalaya, 
6-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Jaku, 
Mahasu (Collett), 
Kashmir. 
Cautleya spicata, 
SCITAMINEA. 
Habe |. vis 209. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
6-8,500 ft. 
diate. Jaku, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
Celosia argentea, 
Acroglochin 
chenopodioides, 
Beta vulgaris, 
Atriplex hortensis, 
Orache or Mountain 
spinach, 
Woraks, suraka. 
CHENOPODIACE®, 
KBE vi. & 
The Plains to 
12,000 ft, 
leaves 6-9 by 4-1} in., 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMEN ONE. 
medium oe perennial, stem leafy, 12-18 in., 
long-pointed, laniceolate or oblong-lanceolate ; flowers t 
fe | 
slender ;. 
usually purple beneath, ‘sessile, 
in., yellow, in drvoping terminal 6-12 loose-flowered spikes, 
sheaths red- striped, bracts oblong, green, one- -flowered,’ 
much shorter than the red calyx, ee is slit on one SiGe, 
>fas/ 
the calyx, upper lobes erect, 3-2 in., narrow, concave, 
2 lateral lobes broader, reflexed, lateral staminodes nearly 
as long as the corolla lobes, erect tips forming a hood 
over the anther, lower deeply 2-lobed, reflexed, anther 
unl at the top, produced at the base in a fork ; capsule 
1 in., red, round, valves 3, ovate, reflexed, red inside, seeds 
black, angular, top flat. 
like the last species, bué leaves larger, spike erect, 
bracts red, as long as the calyx, flowers many, crowded, 
corolla tube hardly longer than the calyx. : i det 
PETALS NONE. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 
Lobed. ROLGARINE 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
medium size, annual, stout; leaves triangular-heart- 
shaped, upper ovate- lanceolate, hot mealy ; flowers minute, 
ereen, in axillary spikes and in terminal branching 
racemes, male flowers bractless, sepals 3-5, oblong, blunt, 
stamens 3-5, female fiowers with 2 bracts, bracts flat, 
orbicular, increasing in size in fruit, forming a “g-valved 
covering to the fruit, petals none, stigmas 2, seed erect, 
The leaves are eaten as a pot herb, 
KK 
