Plants of the Punjab. 



858 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobbd Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Papaver hybridum, 

 Poppy, 



Papaverace^. 

 F. B.I. i. 117. 

 The Plains west of 

 the Jhelum, 

 Peshawar, 

 Rawalpindi. 



small, annual, little branched, juice milky ; leaves 

 cut pinnately into segments, which are again cut, somewhat 

 hairy, radical stalked, stem leaves sessile ; flowers 1-2 in. 

 diam., scarlet with a black spot on long stalks, nodding in 

 bud, sepals 2, ovate, hairy, blunt, concave, falling off as 

 the flower opens, petals 4 in unequal pairs, crumpled 

 in bud, soon falhng off, stamens very many, thickened 

 upwards, style none, 4 stigmatic rays on the capsule ; 

 capsule I in. long, smooth, narrowly oblong, opening by 

 pores close under the rim of the stigmatic disk, seeds many, 

 kidney-shaped, small, surface minutely netted. 



Papaver Rhaeas, 

 Field poppy, 



Lala, lal fost. 



Papavbrace^. 



F. B.I. i. 117. 



Himalaya, 



6-7,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



Rawalpindi. 



very like the last species, but a little larger, flowers 

 much larger, scarlet, capsule smooth, stalked, stigmatic 

 rays 8-12. 



Papaver dubium. 

 Longheaded Poppy, 



Papaverace^. 

 F. B.I. i. 117. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, in fields. 

 (Collett). 



very hke the last species, but often smooth, leaf seg- 

 ments usually narrower, stigmatic rays 6-12, capsule 

 ovoid, sessile. 



Papaver somniferum. 

 Opium poppy, 



Post, ajim. 

 Pap averages. 

 F. B.I. i. 117. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Cultivated, 



medium size to large, annual, smooth, often unbranch- 

 ed, leaves oblong, stem-clasping, lobed and toothed, flowers 

 large, whitish purple or scarlet, sepals smooth, stigmatic 

 rays 5-12, capsule 1 in. diam., round, stalked, seeds white 

 or black ; for other characters see the last species. Opium 

 is the hardened juice which exudes from incisions made 

 on the surface of the half ripened capsules. Oil is expressed 

 from the seeds. 



