Plants of the Punjab. 



137 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Stipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals none. 



Euphorbia 

 hypericifolia, 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 249. 



The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Murree Valleys 

 (Douie). 



Euphorbia Emodi, 



EuPHORBIACEiE. 



F. B. L V. 250. 



Himalaya, 



4-7,500 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Kulu, Chamba, 



Lahul. 



small, annual, slender, smooth, juice milky ; leaves 

 |-1 by |-| in., shortly stalked, oblong, tip rounded, mar- 

 gins toothed except at the base, margins may be reddish, 

 stipules minute, bristly, divided or none ; flowers minute 

 in terminal or axillary clusters, often with two floral leaves 

 at the base, 4 sepals or teeth 4 with 5 green glands in the 

 angles, stamens several, surrounding a 3-angled ovary 

 on a stalk hanging down on one side, styles 3, very short, 

 branched ; capsule 3-lobed, velvety, splitting into 3 valves, 

 one smooth seed in each cell. The seeds, hazardana, are 

 given in children's colic. 



small, annual, hairy, purplish, juice milky, branches 

 straggling from the short stout stem ; leaves ^-f in., in 

 rather distant pairs, green with a purple blotch, oblong 

 or linear-oblong, tip blunt, stipules toothed, fringed ; 

 flower clusters j-^ in. long, nearly sessile and solitary, 

 like the last species but glands purple with white or rose 

 coloured ends, styles slender : capsule shortly stalked, 

 smooth, slightly angled, seeds angled with slight projec- 

 tions. 



Euphorbia pUulifera, 



Dudhi. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. L V. 250. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Valley below 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Bhera (Douie). 



Euphorbia 

 Clarkeana, 



Urtica pilulifera, 

 The Roman Nettle, 



Urticace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 548. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



small, annual, juice milky, stem and branches 1-2 ft., 

 very hairy, leaves |-1| in. long, oblong-lanceolate, tip 

 sharp, stalked, toothed, stipules minute, linear, flower 

 clusters ~ in., many in terminal and axillary, sessile or 

 stalked bunches, glands small, round, capsule ^\ in. diam., 

 hairy, seeds ovoid ; in other respects like the other species 

 of Euphorbia. The plant is used as a purgative. 



see Herbs, Prostrate, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 



small, annual, covered with stinging hairs ; leaves 

 1-3 in. long, ovate, teeth very long, often linear, sharp- 

 pointed, thin, stalked ; flowers minute, green, male in 

 slender branching spikes, female in round heads, both 

 on the same plant, male sepals 4, concave, ovate, stamens 

 4, curled up in bud, straightening wdth a jerk when the 

 flower opens, female sepals 4, flat, unequal, stigma of a 

 small tuft of hairs ; carpel held by the sepals, flattened. 

 An introduced European weed found near houses. 



