Plants of the Punjah. 



315 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals none. 

 Flowers in terminal chaffy spikes. 



iErua javanica, 



^rua lanata, 



Bui-kalan. 



Amarantace.f:. 



¥. B. I. iv. 728. 



The Plains to 



2,000 ft. 



Kahuta, Rawalpindi 



(Doiiie). 



Baluchistan 



(Stocks). 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



small to medium size, stock woody, much branched, 

 woolly, sometimes prostrate ; leaves |-1 in., ovate or or- 

 bicular, stalked, woolly or smooth ; flowers minute, scent- 

 ed, woolly, not glistening in spikes, |-| in., crowded, 

 forming nearly round clusters, all axillary, sessile, sepals 

 4-5, short, blunt, all or inner only v>^oolly, stamens 4-5, 

 united below with interposed linear staminodes into a cup. 

 The flowers and roots are used to cure headache. 



ChenODOdium album, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



A triplex crassifolia, 



CnENOPODIACE.ii. 



E. B. I. V. 6. 

 The Plains to 

 8,000 ft. 

 Lahore. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Hughes-Buller). 



leaves 1-1| 



medium size, annual, stem and branches whitish ; 

 in., oblong or ovate, tip-pointed or blunt, 

 base wedge-shaped or forked, stalked, not thick ; flowers, 

 one sexual, male and female on the same plant, male 

 without bracts, sepals 3-5, oblong, blunt, stamens 3-5, 

 in clusters on slender leafless, long, terminal interrupted 

 spikes, female with 2 bracts, sepals none, stigmas 2 ; fruit 

 enclosed by the much enlarged leaflike bracts, each with a 

 convex, smooth, thick, white, disk at its base, female 

 in small axillary clusters on the lower part of the 

 branches. 



Petals none. 



Axyris 

 amaranthoides, 



Chenopodiace.'E. 

 F. B. L V. 8. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-13,000 ft. 

 Lahul. 



small, annual, vnih star-shaped hairs or smooth, 

 stem stout or slender, branched from the base ; leaves 

 |-1| in., ovate or oblong, blunt or short-pointed, stalk 

 short or slender, when dry, pale yellowish or reddish-brown ; 

 flowers minute without bracts, male and female on the 

 same plant, male in terminal clusters with 3-5 thin trans- 

 parent sepals, and 2-5 slender stamens, female axillarj^, 

 solitary or mixed with the males, with 3-4 unequal thin 

 sepals ; fruit membranous, held by the sepals, flattened 

 or spherical, tip shortly winged or crested, stigmas hair- 

 like, very long. 



