Plants of the Punjah. 



347 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Chenopodium 

 opuiifoliuin, 



Chenopodium 

 Blitum, 



Sundar, kujmld. 

 Chenopodiace.e. 

 F. B. I. V. 5. 

 Kashmir, 8,500 ft. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Euphorbia pilosa, 



Euphorbia 

 micractina, 



Euphorbiace^. 

 F. B. L V. 261. 

 Kashmir on Pir 

 Panjal 

 (Jacquemont), 



Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



medium size, smooth, stem rather stout, white ; leaves 

 1-3 in., bright green, triangular, base forked or heart-shap- 

 ed, long-pointed, deeply unequally toothed, stalk slender, 

 longer or shorter than the blade ; flowers j-i- in. diam., in 

 sessile axillary clusters and in terminal leafy spikes, sepals 

 l-o, succulent, berry-like in fruit, not enclosing the 

 seed vessel, stamen 1, seed smooth, margin blunt, opaque. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



small, perennial, slightly hairy, stems short ; leaves 

 minute below, h in. higher up the stem, oblong with rounded 

 ends, distant rounded teeth, floral leaves equal to the rays, 

 clustered at the end of stem or branches ; flowers in com- 

 pound umbels, rays (flower stalks) ^-| in., male and female 

 organs in one cup-shaped 4-5-lobed calyx, lobes ovate with 

 few scattered hairs, almost concealed by 5 horizontal kidney- 

 shaped glands placed in their angles,glands smooth, rounded, 

 fleshy, margins woolly, stamens many, anthers globular, 

 surrounchng a stalked orbicular depressed, warted, 3-lobed 

 capsule, hanging down on one side, styles 3, united at the 

 base, dividing into 2 seeds -^ in. diam., ovoid. 



Euphorbia 

 helioscopia, 

 Sun spurge, 



Gunda-hutc, 

 chatriwal. 

 Euphorbiace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 262. 

 The Plains to 

 8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Gurgaon. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks), 



Euphorbia falcata, 



small to medium size, annual, smooth, much branched 

 above, leaves |-2 in., stem leaves ovate, with a broad tip 

 or oblong, narrowed into the stalk, leaves round the flowers 

 2-4, small, flowers in umbels as in the last species, rays 5, 

 calyx -j^y- in. diam,, top-shaped, smooth, 4-lobed, glands 

 yellow, rounded, entire, styles ununited, capsule ^ in. 

 diam., smooth, seeds minutely net-veined ; for other charac- 

 ters see the last species. The juice is used in skin diseases, 

 and the seed as a vermifuge. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



