360 



Plants of the Punjab. 



Hires, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulatb Lobbd Liavkb. 



Petals ununited. 



CEnothera rosea, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



Eryngium 

 eoeruleum, 



Dudhali, poli, 

 pahari gajar. 

 Umbellifer^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 669. 

 Kashmir, 

 6-6,000 ft. 



medium size to large, perennial, stem unbranched 

 below, branched above, smooth, spinous ; leaves radical, 

 5 by If in., stalks 2-6 in., oblong-heart-shaped, not lobed, 

 round-toothed, not spiny, lower stem leaves similar, but 

 smaller, upper stem leaves sessile, palmately divided into 

 lanceolate spiny segments ; flowers small, white, in un- 

 branched heads, bracts 5-6, 1 in., linear with a few spines 

 on the margins, bracteoles linear, spiny, longer than the 

 flowers, calyx 5-toothed, teeth lanceolate, awl-shaped, 

 spiny, calyx tube densely scaly, petals 5, white, narrow, 

 erect, stamens 6 ; fruit ^ in., nearly cylindric, carpels 2, 

 dorsally nearly flat, nearly concave on the inner face, 

 primary ridges not prominent, secondary absent, oil canals 

 inconspicuous, axis wanting, one seed in each carpel. The 

 root is taken as an aphrodisiac and nervine tonic. 



Eryngium 

 Billardieri, 



UMBELLIFERiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 670. 

 Kashmir, 

 5-6,000 ft. 



very like the last species, but radical and lower stem 

 leaves are divided and the stem is branched below. 



Sanicula europaea, 

 Sanicle 



Umbelliper^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 670. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-12,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 

 (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Coriandrum 

 sativum, 



medium size to large, annual, smooth ; leaves palmate- 

 ly divided into 3-5 segments, ovate, toothed, often lobed, 

 teeth finely pointed, radical leaves 2-6 in. diam., long- 

 stalked, stem leaves few, smaller, umbels are formed of 

 small umbels on rays, bracts few, leaf-like, rays unequal, 

 frequently forking, branches ending in a small head of 

 flowers with small linear bracteoles, flowers minute, white, 

 chiefly one sexual perfect, flowers sessile, male stalked, 

 calyx tube woolly, almost prickly, teeth green, lanceolate, 

 petals white, notched, fruit -^ in., ovoid, flattened, covered 

 with hooked bristles ; for other characters see the last 

 speciet . 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



Cuminam Ojmlnam, 



lee HerbB, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



