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Plants of the Pimjah. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. • 



Chrozophora 

 tinctoria, 



Chrozophora ohliqua, 



Chrozophora plicata, 



Petals none. 

 see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Acalyph 

 brachystachya, 



Euphorbiace.e. 

 p. B. L V. 416. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Acalypha ciliata, 



Kiijjpi, kokali. 



Euphorbiaceje. 



F. B.L V. 417. 



The Plains to 



6,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Subathu. 



small, annual, weak, straggling, more or less velvety, 

 nettle-like ; leaves 1-3 in., ovate, pointed, round-toothed, 

 base heart-shaped ; flowers minute, green, in small sessile 

 clusters in short axillary spikes ^ in. long, both sexes on the 

 same spike, male flowers few, at the end of spikes, sepals 4, 

 stamens 8, female flowers 1-3, sessile, in the axils of bracts, 

 cut into 3 linear, entire, one-nerved, blunt spreachng lobes, 

 sepals 3-4, styles free, thread-like, long, divided into comb- 

 like processes ; capsules roughly hairy within the bracts, 

 3-celled, 3-seeded, seeds nearly round, nearly smooth. 



like the last species but larger, leaves 2-3 in., sharply 

 toothed, long-pointed, spikes -| in., bracts of female flowers 

 pale coloured, usually 6-10, circular, ^\dth a long marginal 

 fringe, capsule smooth. This plant acts as a laxative and 

 vermifuge. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Adonis aestivalis, 



RANUNCULACEiE. 



P. B. I. i. 15. 



The Plains from 

 1-6,000 ft. 

 Piawalpindi, 

 Peshawar, 

 Kashmir, Hazara, 

 Kotgarh (Collett). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



medium size, annual, nearly smooth, leafy, branched or 

 not ; leaves much lobed and divided into thread-like seg- 

 ments, sessile; flowers | in. diam., yellow or scarlet with 

 a purple centre, solitary at the end of stem or branches, 

 sepals 5, ovate, green or slightly coloured, soon falhng 

 off, petals 5-8, longer than the sepals, spreading, stamens 

 many, fruit ovoid or oblong, of man}^ small, wrinkled, 

 pitted carpels, tipped with the persistent styles, closely 

 alhed to the Pheasant's eye, Adonis autumnalis of Britain. 



