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Plants of the Punjab. 



Heebs, Eeect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Withania coagulans, 



Datura stramonium, 



Datura fastuosa, 



Physoclaina 

 praealta, 



SoLANACBiE. 



F. B. L iv. 244. 



North Kashmir, 

 12-15,500 ft. 



Hyoscyamus niger, 

 Henbane, 



Dandura, damtura, 

 bazrhang. 

 Solanace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 244. 

 Himahij^a, 

 8-11,000 ft. 

 Narkanda (Colii'tt). 

 Quetta. 



Hyoscyamus 

 pusillus, 



SoLANACEiE. 



F. B. L iv. 245. 



Kashmir. 



La dak, 10,000 ft. 



Baluchistan 



(Stocks). 



Petals united. 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see HerbSj Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



large, nearly smooth, branches clustered towards 

 the top ; leaves 4-G by 3 in., ovate-oblong, wavy margins, 

 stalk 1-4 in. ; flowers f-lj in., stalked in a terminal 

 flat-topped stickj^ velvety cluster 2-8 in. diam., calyx ^ 

 in., bell-shaped, lobes 5, | in., lanceolate, short, in fruit 

 If by I in., streaked, corolla 1^ by 4- in., tubular, funnel- 

 shaped, lobes 5, short, overlapping in bud, stamens 5, 

 attached at the middle of the tube, protruding, style 

 thread-like, stigma barely 2-lobed, protruding ; capsule I 

 in. diam., 2-celled, seeds \^ in., very many, net-veined, 

 flattened. This plant like Belladonna dilates the pupil of 

 the eye ; it is poi-onous co man, not to cattle ; the leaves 

 are used to reduce swelHngs. 



medium size to large, sticky, hairy with an unpleasant 

 heavy odour, stem thick ; leaves, radical leaves 6-8 in., 

 entire or coarsely sinuate-toothed or lobed, spreading, 

 oblong-ovate, stem -leaves smaller, sessile, ovate, lobed, 

 changing into bracts above ; flowers 1-1 j in. diam., dark 

 yellowish-green, veined with purple, sessile on one-sided 

 spikes, rolled back at first, then straight, csdyx f in., tube 

 ovoid, lobes funnel-shaped, 5-toothed, corolla funnel- 

 shaped, lobes 5, spreading, unequal, broad, short, stamens 

 5, protruding, style thread-like, longer than the stamens, 

 stigma nearly round ; capsule | in. diam., enclosed in the 

 swollen tube of the enlarged calyx, lower part papery, 

 upper hard, opening along the line between the tw^o 'parts, 

 seeds tt'j ii^-j very man}-. This plant is sedative, anodyne 

 and antispasmodic ; it is much used in European medicine. 



very like the last, but lower leaves smaller, often 

 lobed, stem leaves stalked, often lobed, calyx streaked, 



smoothish, teeth lanceolate, corolla 

 net-veined. 



1 3 



2 4 



in., yellow, not 



