Plants of the Punjab. 



817 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Wikstrsemia 

 canescens, 



Petals none. 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Diarthron 

 vesiculosum, 



Thymel^eace^. 

 F. B. Lv. 196. 

 N.-W. F. Province. 

 Peshawar (Vicary). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Boissier). 



small, annual, slender, much branched, leafy ; leaves 

 |-| in., Hnear, nerveless, somewhat waxy, bluish-o-reen, 

 sessile, blunt or almost pointed ; flowers minute, on very 

 short stalks in slender racemes, | in. long, lengthening 

 to 1 in. in fruit, calyx ^ in. long, urn-shaped or tube very 

 slender, closing over the fruit, bladder-like when the fruit 

 does not ripen, lobes 4, spreading, stamens 8, in two series, 

 anthers almost sessile, lower smaller than the upper ; 

 fruit yV'tV ^^- long, dry, narrowly ovoid. 



Tliesium himalense, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



P. B. I. V. 258 



Himalava, 



6-12,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



Chamba. 



•Jammu. 



Euphorbia Wallichii, mechum size to large, stock perennial, stems annual, 



Euphorbiace^. velvety above, branched or not, juice milky ; leaves 3-5 



in., Hnear or oblong, with rounded ends or ovate with a 

 broad-pointed tip, sessile, thin, nerves many, spreadino-, 

 floral leaves 1| in. diam., clustered at the end of stem or 

 branches, 3-4, large, rounded or oblong, ovate, short- 

 pointed ; flowers ^ in. diam., in compound umbels, rays 

 and flower stalks few, short, male and female organs in 

 one cup-shaped 4-5-lobed calyx, lobes almost concealed 

 by 5 horizontal kidney-shaped glands placed in their 

 angles, glands smooth, rounded, fleshy, margins woolly, 

 stamens many, anthers globular, surrounding a stalked 

 orbicular 3-lobed capsule hanging down on one side, styles 

 3, united to the middle, dividing into 2 ; capsule | in. 

 diam., consisting of 3 woody one-seeded cells ; seeds i 

 in., smooth, grey-blue. 



Euphorbia pilosa, 

 Hairy Spurge, 



EuPIIORBIACEJE. 



F. B. I. V. 260. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Murree. 



very like the last species but smaller, bracts yellow- 

 green, flowers smaller, glands yellow, styles long ; capsule 

 I in. diam., covered more or less with small, often minute- 

 ly hairy tul)ercles, seeds smooth. 



