Plants of the Punjab. 



887 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Caltha palustris, 

 Marsh marigold, 



Mamiri, haringu. 



EANUNCULACEiE. 



F. B. Li. 21. 



Himalaya, 



8-10,000 ft. 



TheChor(Collett). 



Hattu. 



Hazara. 



Acroglochin 

 chenopodioides, 



Chenopodium 

 album, 



Chenopodium 

 opulifolium, 



CHENOPODIACEiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 3. 

 Kashmir and 

 Lahnl, 6-8,000 ft. 



Chenopodium 

 murale, 

 Nettle-leaved 

 Goose foot, 



Baiu, kurund, 

 hilar atua. 

 Chenopodiace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 4. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Hiighes-Buller). 



medium size, perennial, smooth, rootstock thick, 

 creeping, stem stout, branched, leafy ; leaves, radical, 2-5 

 in. across, circular or kidney-shaped, long-stalked, shining, 

 deeply hollowed at the base, teeth small, close, regular, 

 stem leaves smaller, upper sessile, embracing the stem like a 

 cup ; flowers yellow or white, 1-2 in. diam,, terminal sepals 

 5 or 6, petal-like, oval or oblong blunt, petals none, stamens 

 many ; fruit a head of many narrow flattened, manj^-seeded 

 follicles beaked with the persistent styles. The root is con- 

 sidered poisonous in Hazara. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 



see Herbs, 

 Toothed. 



medium size, 

 and lower surface 

 leaves 1| by 1| in. 

 flowers minute, 

 sepals 3-5, keeled, 

 tened, covered bv 



Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



mealy white, especially on the flowers 



of the leaves, stems angled and grooved ; 



., broad, blunt, margins irregularly lobed ; 



greenish, 2-sexual in axillary clusters, 



stamens 1-5, styles 2-3 ; seed vessel flat- 



the sepals, seed dotted, margin rounded. 



small, nearly smooth, bright green, rather foetid ; 

 leaves f-3 in., broad, ovoid, angular sides lobed, sharply 

 toothed, base wedge-shaped, stalked long or short, flowers 

 in slender spikes, forming loose dense axillary clusters, 

 sepals bluntly keeled, incurved in fruit, seed sharply 

 keeled, dotted, horizontal ; for other characters see the 

 last species. This plant is used as a pot herb. 



Chenopodium 

 Botrys, 



Chenopodiace^e. 

 F.B.Lv. 4. 



Himalaya, 

 4-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Peshawar. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



small to medium size, very aromatic, stem grooved, 

 ribbed, velvety with glands, a weed of cultivation, leaves 

 1-3 in., lower stalked, ovate or oblong-lobulate, upper more 

 lanceolate, entire, flowers solitary or clustered, in short 

 axillary or long terminal racemes, sepals velvety-glandu- 

 lar, enclosing the seed vessel, seed horizontal, nearly 

 round, smooth, margin blunt ; for other characters see the 

 last species. The oil is used in America and France for 

 coughs and colds and in the former as a vermifuge. 



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