Plants of the Punjab. 



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Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Pupalia lappacea, 



Amarantace^. 

 F. B. L iv. 724. 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. 

 Baluchistan. 



Nothosserua 

 brachiata , 



Amarantace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 726. 

 The Plains. 



Achyranthes aspera, 

 The Prickly Chaff 

 Flower, 



Laijira, chichra, 

 kutri. 



Amarantace.e. 

 P. B. I. iv. 730. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Rawalpindi. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Boissier). 



Achyranthes 

 bidentata, 



Amarantace.e. 

 F. B. L iv. 730. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-6,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Atriplex hortensis, 



Atriplex crassiflolia, 



Petals none. 



large, straggling, felted, branches rounded ; leaves 

 2-4 in., broadly ovate to lanceolate and short -pointed, 

 base sharp -pointed, leaf stalk |-| in. ; flowers in small, 

 distant or adjacent clusters, J in. diam., calyx of 5 

 sepals, green, 3-nerved, densely v^'oolly, reduced in im- 

 perfect flowers to a process, bearing stellately spread- 

 ing hooked bristles, petals none, stamens 5, nearly free 

 below, staminodes none, style slender, stigma roundish ; 

 fruit ovoid, fl.attened, seed one. 



medium size, annual, branched from the base, 

 branches slightly velvety, spreading ; leaves 1-2 in., ovate, 

 blunt or short -pointed, thin, green, stalk 0-| in. ; flowers 

 very minute, woolly, in axillary solitary or clustered little 

 spikes, |-| in. long, white, calyx of 3-5, thin, colourless 

 sepals -^Q- in. long, silky, one-nerved, petals none, stamens 

 1-2, ununited, staminodes none, stigma nearly sessile ; 

 fruit minute, oblong, flattened, seed one. 



large, straggling, branched or not, branches long 

 and rambling ; leaves 3-5 by 2-3 in., ovate or round, thick, 

 leathery, velvety or felted, shortly stalked ; flowers shin- 

 ing, dull green or purplish, soon bending down, crowded 

 in long rigid terminal unbranched spikes, 6-18 in. long, 

 bracts and bracteoles som?what spiny, calyx ^-^ in. long, 

 5-fid, segments stiff, lanceolate, short-pointed, longer 

 than the bracteoles, petals none, stamens 5, alternating 

 and united below with 5 fringed staminodes, style long, 

 stigma rounded ; fruit oblong, enclosed in the calyx, seed 

 one, oblong. This plant is used as a diuretic, the ash con- 

 tains much potash. 



very much like the last species, but much larger, 

 leaves long-pointed with a slender tip, bracteoles usually 

 reduced to a spine, and staminodes toothed, not fringed. 



see Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 see Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate. Simple. 



