512 Plants of the Punjab. 
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Prostrate Herss witH ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
PETALS UNITED. 
Chrozophora annual, prostrate, felted with star-shaped hairs, 
tinetoria, root stout, branches 6-10 in. ; leaves 14-23 in., long-stalked, 
EuPHORBIACE. from ovate gap-toothed or entire to rounded bluntly lobed, 
BB. L408. thick, softly felted on both sides ; flowers sessile, axillary, 
The Plains. bracteate racemes, bracts one-flowered, male flowers crowded 
The Salt Range. at the top of the raceme, female solitary, stalked, males, 
Baluchistan calyx round or ovoid, segments 5, petals 5, short, stamens 
(Lace). 5-20, united below, females, calyx segments narrow, 
petals narrow or none, disk glands short, broad, styles 38, 
2-fid ; capsules 4 in. diam., covered with silvery scales, 3 
2-valved cocci, seeds one in each cell. 
Chrozophora obliqua, like the last species, but more erect bushy plant, sta- 
EUPHORBIACEZ. mens usually 5, leaves ovate, gap-toothed, not lobed. 
F.sB. I. v. 409. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Kashmir, 
Ferozepore. 
Chrozophora plicata, like Chrozophora tinctoria, but upper surface of leaves 
KUPHORBIACES. rough, no fringed silvery scales on the capsule, leaves 
F. B. I. v. 409. larger. 
The Plains. 
PETALS NONE. 
Orygia decumbens, see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
Digera arvensis, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
Amarantus small, smooth, branches 6-18 in., leafy, slender, many, 
tenuifolius, spreading from the root, prostrate or ascending ; leaves 4-1 
AMARANTACE. in. long, linear-oblong, or widened to the round«d blunt 
BS Bivih iNet 2s or 2-lobed tip; flowers small, green, in axillaty clusters, 
The Plains. bracts shorter than the sepals, sepals 2, oblong, concave, 
nearly as long as the round, flattened, thin utricle, petals 
none, stamens 2, utricle plicate when dry, seeds 5 in, 
diam., brown, border blunt. 
7Erua lanata, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
