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Plants oj the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Rumex acetosa, 



Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



Rumex vesicarius, 

 Bladder Dock, 

 Sorrel, 



Katta mitha, saluni, 

 choka. 



PoLYGONACEiE. 



F. B. L V. 61. 

 The Salt Eange. 

 Trans-Lidus Hills. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Hughes-Buller). 



small, annual, pale green, smooth, branches in pairs ; 

 leaves 1-3 in., ovate or oblong, base wedge-shaped, rarely 

 heart-shaped or terminating in 2 sharp angles, stipules 

 tubular, not fringed, soon disappearing ; flowers small, 

 pink or white, male and female separate, in terminal short 

 leaf -opposed leafless racemes, 1-1| in. long, flowers on 

 jointed or unjointed stalks, calyx of 6 circular sepals, inner 

 8 much enlarged in fruit, thin, 2-lobed at each end, not 

 fringed, stamens 6, styles 8, fringed, arising from the 

 angles of the fruit, bent down ; nut ^ in. diam., 3-angled» 

 The juice is cooling, aperient, and diuretic. 



Houttuynia cordata, 



PiPERACEiB. 



F. B. I. V. 78. * 



Himalaya 



1-5,000 ft. 



Sultej Valley below 



Narkanda 



(Collett). 



perennial, velvety, rootstock creeping, stem 12-36 

 in., green, leafy, angular ; leaves l|-2^ in., broadly ovate, 

 stalked, heart-shaped, long-pointed, stalk 1-2 in., base 

 sheathing, stipules long, linear, oblong, blunt ; flowers 

 minute in terminal leaf-opposed stalked spikes ^ in. long 

 with 4-6 large white petal-hke bracts |-| in. at the base, 

 calyx none, petals none, stamens 8, carpels 8-4, united, 

 styles 8, free ; fruit almost round. 



Phyllanthus urinaria, 



Hazar-mani. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 298. 

 The Plains. 



medium size to large, annual, rarely perennial, smooth, 

 stem and branches angled, angles of branches, margins 

 of leaves and sepals often minutely hairy ; leaves ^-f in., 

 in 2 lines, overlapping, oblong or linear-oblong, tip 

 rounded or short-pointed, sessile, stipules target-shaped ; 

 flowers minute, green, axillary, nearly sessile, males and 

 females on the same plant, sohtary or clustered, male 

 flowers, calyx of 6 circular sepals, stamens 8, rarely 5, 

 more or less united at the base, female flowers, calyx of 6 

 oblong sepals, styles 8, with 2 hooked arms ; capsule 

 j^ in., prickly, hard, brittle with three 2-valved lobes, 

 seeds transversely furrowed. This plant is said to 

 be used as a diuretic and as a cure for jaundice. 



Phyllanthus simplex, see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



