Plants of the Punjab, 



497. 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Cautleya lutea, 



Scitamine^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 208. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-8,000 'ft. 

 Simla, Jaku, 

 Mahasu (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Stamen one. 



medium size, peremiial, stem leafy, 12-18 in., slender ; 

 leaves 6-9 by |-H in., usually purple beneath, sessile, 

 long-pointed, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate ; flowers 1' 

 in., yellow, in diooping terminal 6-12 loose-flowered spikes, 

 sheaths red-striped, bracts oblong, green, one-flowered, 

 much shorter than the red calyx, which is sht on one side, 

 minutely toothed, corolla tube long, slender, longer than 



the calvx, 



upper lobes erect, |--| in., narrow, concave,, 

 2 lateral lobes broader, reflexed, lateral staminodes nearly 

 as long as the corolla lobes, erect tips forming a hood 

 over the anther, lower deeply 2-lobed, reflexed, anther 

 notched at the top, produced at the base in a fork ; capsule 

 I in., red, round, valves 3, ovate, reflexed, red inside, seeds 

 black, angular, top flat. 



Cautleya spicata, 



SciTAMINEiE. 



F. B. I. vi. 209. 



Himalaya, 



east of the Sutlej , 



6-8,500 ft. 



Simla, Jaku, Mahasu 



(Collett). 



Celosia argentea, 



like the last species, but leaves larger, spike erect, 

 bracts red, as long as the calyx, flowers many, crowded, 

 corolla tube hardly longer than the calyx. 



Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Acroglochin 

 chenopodioides, 



Beta vulgaris, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Atriplex hortensis, 

 Orache or Mountain 

 spinach, 



Korake, suraka. 



CHENOPODIACEiE. 



F. B. I. vi. 6. 

 The Plains to 

 12,000 ft. 



medium size, annual, stout ; leaves triangular-heart- 

 shaped, upper ovate-lanceolate, not mealy ; flowers minute, 

 green, in axillary spikes and in terminal branching 

 racemes, male flowers bractless, sepals 3-5, oblong, blunt, 

 stamens 3-5, female flowers with 2 bracts, bracts flat, 

 orbicular, increasing in size in fruit, forming a 2-valved 

 covering to the fruit, petals none, stigmas 2, seed erect. 

 The leaves are eaten as a pot herb, 



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