Plants of the Punjab. 



389 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



notched, stamens many, ultimately longer than the sepals, 

 style short, stigma pointed ; follicles 4-S, | in. long, flat, 

 tipped with the styles, seeds 6-8. This plant is used in 

 America to cure rheumatism. 



Pseonia Emodi, 

 Paeony, 



Ud-salap, mamekh. 

 Ranunculace^. 

 P. B.I. i. 30. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-10,000 ft. 

 Hazara, 



large, perennial, stout, smooth ; leaves 6-12 in. long, 

 leaflets 3, usually 3-fid, segments lanceolate, pointed, 

 entire ; flowers 3-4 in. diam., white or red, few, usually 

 solitary in the upper axils, buds round, sepals o, circular., 

 concave, green, persistent, outer ones ending in a leaflike 

 point, petals 5-10, broadly ovate, concave, stamens many, 

 style short, broad, recurved ; follicles 1-3, ovoid, 1 in., 

 seeds few, large. The tubers cure uterine and nervous 

 diseases, the seeds are purgative and emetic. 



Epimedium elatum, see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Com- 



pound. 



Cardamine liirsuta. 



Cardamine 

 impatiens, 



Cardamine 

 macrophylla, 



Cleome 

 brachyearpaj 



CAPPARIDACEiE. 

 F. B.I. i. 169. 



The Plains, 



Sargodha, 



Peshawar, 



Baluchistan 



(Hughefl-Buller). 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



small, perennial, musky, glandular, rough, branched 

 from the base ; leaves with 3-5 leaflets, upper simple, 

 leaflets |-| in., ovate with a broad tip or oblong; flowers 

 |-| in. long, yellow, long-stalked in leafy racemes, sepals 

 4, spreading, petals 4, stamens 6, sessile on the disk ; cap- 

 sule I in., oblong, roughish, seeds kidney-shaped, minute, 

 smooth. 



Cleome viscosa, 



Hulhul, bugra. 

 Capparidace/hi. 

 F. B.I. i. 170. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



medium size, annual, glandular-velvety, 

 digitatcly compound, leaflets 3-5, unequal, 

 nearly sessile, ovate, entire, flowers | in., 

 stalked in racemes, petals refloxed, stamens 

 2-3 in., linear, seeds wrinkled ; for other 

 the last species. The seeds are used in 

 curries, they aob like those of mustard and 



sticky, leaves 

 largest 1 in., 

 yellow, long- 



12-20, capsule 



characters see 

 medicine and 



are vermifugG. 



