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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herba^, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobbd Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Argemone Mexicana, 

 Mexican or Prickly 

 Poppy, 



Sialicanta, 

 hher-hand. 

 Papaverace^. 

 F. B.I. i. 117. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 



Badrighat below 

 Jutogh (Collett). 



Meconopsis aculeata, 



Gudi, T^unda. 

 Papaverace^. 

 F.B.Li. 118. 

 Himalaya, 

 11-15.000 ffc. 

 The Cher 

 (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 

 Marali. 



Corydalis Govaniana, 



Corydalis 

 Moorcroftiana, 



Corydalis 

 Gortschakovii, 



Corydalis cornuta, 



FUMARIACE^. 



F. B. L i. 126. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



medium size to large, annual, juice yellow, smooth 

 with bluish-green waxy gloss, prickly ; leaves 3-7 in., ob- 

 long, cut into pinnate, spinous toothed segments, thistle- 

 like, half stem-clasping, variegated green and white ; 

 flowers 1-2 in. diam., bright yellow, terminal on short leafy 

 branches, sepals 3, prickly, ovate, produced Below the tip 

 into a short horn, .petals 6, stamens very many, style 

 very short, stigma 4-6-lobed ; capsule 1-1 ^ in., oblong- 

 ovoid, prickly, opening by 4-6 valves, seeds many, round, 

 surface netted. Oil is expressed from the seeds for illumi- 

 nating purposes, it is used as an aperient in half drachm 

 doses, the juice is used in dropsy, jaundice and skin 

 diseases. 



medium size, amiual, prickly ; leaves 4-8 in., oblong 

 or lanceolate, long-pointed, divided pinnately into seg- 

 ments, long-stalked, stem leaves sessile ; flowers 2-3 in. 

 diam., 'bright l)lue-purple in simple or branched racemes, 

 stalks slender, prickly in fruit, sepals 2-3, petals 4-5, stamens 

 many, style half as long as the capsule, stigmatic lobes 

 radiating on its clubbed extremity ; capsule -i-| in., 

 oblong, short, densely prickly, seeds many, small, wrinkled. 

 In Kashmir the root is supposed to have narcotic pro- 

 perties. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



small to medium size, root spindle-shaped, perennial, 

 stems often prostrate, succulent, branched ; leaves long- 

 stalked, much divided, leaflets deeply lobed, segments 

 small, ovate ; flowers |-f in., yellow, tips purple, in terminal 

 manj^-flowered dense long racemes, bracts small lobed 

 or entire, sepals 2, small, scale-like, petals 4, erect, tips 

 converging, the two outer larger than the two inner, united 

 at the base, the upper one broad, concave, produced into 

 a hollow spur, curved blunt at the tip, lower one flat, narrow, 

 inner petc.ls narrow, stalked, keeled, stamens 6 in 2 sets of 

 three, lower set with spurs projecting into the petal spur, 

 style thread-like, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule | in., ovate, 

 2-valved, seeds several, opaque. 



