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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. • 



Kochia indica, 



Kaura ro. 

 Chenopodiace^. 

 E. B. Lv. 11. 

 The Plains. 



Petals none. 



small, annual, softly hairy, branched from the base, 

 branclilets long, ^\idely separating ; leaves small, oblong 

 with rounded ends or linear-oblong, short-pointed, sessile ; 

 flowers minute, male and female sometimes separate, 

 bractless, sepals 5 in., curved, in fruit closing over, leathery 

 with 5 free or united horizontal, ovate, blunt, thick wings, 

 forming a broad triangular calyx, stamens 5, anthers large, 

 protruding, style slender, stigmas 2-3, thread-like, seed 

 orbicular. 



Halocharis 

 sulphurea, 



Chenopodiace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 19. 

 The Plains of 

 N.-W. F. Province. 

 Balucliistan 

 (Aitchisou). 



small, annual, hairy with long bristles ; leaves |-1 

 in. long, linear, blunt-tipped, almost angled, sessile, in 

 clusters at the end of branches, floral leaves equal to the 

 hairy lanceolate bracteoles ; flowers | in. diam., in headlike 

 clusters, forming long spikes at the end of short branches, 

 sepals 5, lanceolate, thin, transparent, outer softly hairy, 

 stamens 5, on a fleshy disc, anthers linear, connected 

 by a long sessile yellow appendage, much longer and 

 broader than the anther ; capsule enclosed by the sepals, 

 ovoid, flattened, stigmas 2, slender, seed flattened. 



Phytolacca acinosa, 



Lubar, rmsag, 

 sarunga. 



Phytolaccace^. 

 F. B. Lv. 21. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-9,000 ft. 

 Hazara. 

 Kashmir. 



farge, stout, fleshy, nearly smooth ; leaves 6-10 by 

 2|-4 in., broadly lanceolate, long-pointed, narrowed into 

 a short stalk ; flowers I in. diam., green, on stalks I in. 

 long in leaf opposed cylindrical racemes, 2-6 in. long, 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, thin, sepals 4, broadly oblong, 

 blunt, stamens 8-10, united below, anthers soon fall- 

 ing off, fruit of 8-10 carpels, dark purple, fleshy, crowded 

 in an erect stout raceme 4-8 in. long, one seed in each 

 carpel, black, kidney-shaped, shining. This plant was 

 introduced from China, is cultivated and found as an 

 escape ; the leaves are cooked and eaten, but uncooked is 

 poisonous, causing delirium. 



Thymelaea arvensis, 



ThYMEL^ACEvE. 



F. B. L V. 194. 

 The Plains below 

 Jammu. 

 Kashmir. 

 Ramu, 6,000 ft. 



small to medium size, annual, very slender, smooth, 

 straight, branches few, leafy, erect; leaves ^-| in.,iinear- 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, nearly erect, sessile ; flowers -j-L 

 in., sessile in all the leaf-axils, forming long, leafy, very 

 slender spikes, bracts small, calyx urn-shaped or tubular, 

 4-lobed, lobes erect, blunt, ovate, very short, stamens 8 

 in 2 series, anthers nearly sessile ; fruit j|j-| in. long, ovoid, 

 dry, narrowed upwards. 



