Plants of the Piinjah. 



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Herbs, Erect with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Solanum 

 xanthocarpum, 



Kateli, riniini. 



SOLANACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 236. 



The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla, 

 Baluchistan 

 (Lace). 



Lycopersicum 

 esculentum, 



Physalis minima, 



Physalis peruviana, 



Nicandra 

 physaloides, 



Solanace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 240. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-6,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Datura Stramonium, 

 Thorn apple, 



Tatiur, dattura. 

 Solanace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 242. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir (Thomson), 

 Balucliistan (Lace). 



Flowers not in heads. 



small, very prickly, spreading, rough with star-shaped 

 hairs ; leaves 2-4 in., oblong, pinnately divided, nerves 

 on both surfaces armed with long straight prickles ; flowers 

 1 in. diam., blue, solitary or in small clusters, calyx ^ in., 

 lobes ovato-oblong, prickly, hardly enlarging in fruit, 

 corolla lobes shallow, velvety without ; berry |-| in. diam., 

 round, yellow or whitish with green blotches, seeds -^ in. 

 diam., smooth. This plant is much used as an expecto- 

 rant and diuretic. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



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see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Petals united. 



medium size to large, annual, smooth, native of Peru ; 

 leaves 4-7 in., ovate-lanceolate, irregularly lobed and 

 toothed ; flowers 1-1| in. diam., single on recurved, usually 

 axillary stalks, clayx divided into 5 lobes, lobes in fruit 

 1 by I in., much enlarged, avate, heart-shaped at the base, 

 overlapping the berry, net-veined, corolla bell-shaped, 

 5-lobed in pleats, stamens 5, attached at corolla-base, 

 style linear, stigma 3-5-lobed ; berry | in. diam. round, 

 seeds very many, flattened, nearly discoid. This plant is 

 said to be diuretic. 



large, annual, nearly smooth ; leaves 7 by 4 in., ovate, 

 coarsely and irregularly lobed and toothed, stalk 1 in. ; 

 flowers 3-6 in. long, 1-3 in. across, white, single on short 

 usually axillary stalks, calyx 1-1| by ^-| in., green, 5- 

 toothed, tubular, corolla tubular, funnel-shaped, mouth 

 wide, 5-lobed, lobes ^ in., folding at the angles, lobes ending 

 in long narrow points, stamens 5, attached near the base 

 of the tube, not protruding, atyle thread-like, stigma 

 . 2-lobed ; capsule 1-| by 1 in., ovoid, erect, covered with 

 rigid sharp prickles, 4-celled, opening by 4 valves, seeds 

 many, flattened, wrinkled. The seeds are used for poison- 

 ing, and medicinally for asthma, the leaves are also used 

 for the latter pur]30se. 



