Plants of the Punjab, 



533 



FROSVBAta Hbrbs wivh 0p7obi7e Stipulate Simpls Lsavas. 



Petals nonb. 



Euphorbia 

 thymifolia, 



Chota dudhi. 



EuPHORBIACEiE, 



F. B. I. V, 252. 



The Plains to 



4,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett), 



Euphorbia 

 granulata, 



EUPHOBBIACEJE. 



P. B. I. y. 252. 

 The Plains. 



Euphorbia 

 Clarkeana, 

 Canal weed, 



Edphorbiacbs. 

 F. B. I. V. 253. 

 The Plains, Lahore, 

 Feroaepore. 



Lecanthus Wightii, 



Urticacb^. 



F. B. I. V. 559. 



Himalaya, 



east of the Kavi, 



4-12,000 ft. 



Simla on old walls 



(CoUett). 



annual, juice milky, much branched from the root, 

 leafy, velvety ; leaves \ in., oblong, blunt, deshy, tteth 

 short-pointed or rounded, stipules fringed with a long 

 point ; flowers very minute, almost soHiary, greenish, 

 axillary, especially in the crowded lermna branchlets, 

 top-shaped, velvety, sepals 4, short, bristly, petals none, 

 glands green 5, horizontal, almost concealing the sepals, 

 smooth, fleshy, male flowers many, consisting of one stamen 

 with a round anther, female flowers, one surrounded by 

 several males, consisting of a 3-ce.led, stalked ovary, 

 styles 3, branched ; tips short, straight or recurved ; cap- 

 sule 3^ in, broad, velvety, keeled, seeds wrinked The 

 seeds, hazardana, are aromatic and astringent, the juice 

 is purgative. 



like the last species, but perennial, woolly, smaller, 

 leaves j\-^ in. not toothed, capsule hairy, not keeled, seeds 

 faintly itted. 



annual, smooth, reddish, stems thread-like, many, 

 spreading from the annual root, leaves |-J in., linear- 

 oblong, entire or toothed at the rounded tip, leathery, 

 base almost lobed on one side, leaf stalk- very short. 

 stipules large, bristly, from a toothed base, flowers sV in., 

 axillary, bell-shaped, chiefly seen towards the tips of lateral 

 branches, smooth, lobes lanceolate, toothed, longer than 

 the glands, styles very short, capsules j\ in. broad, quite 

 smooth, keeled, seeds acutely 4-angled, slightly wrinkled 

 transversely ; for other characters see Euphorbia thymi- 

 folia just above. This plant always appears on lawns 

 especially where canal irrigation is used, it is almost im- 

 possible to eradicate it. 



succulent, velvety, stems prostrate, rooting below 

 then ascending, 1-4 in., weak ; leaves |-1 in., obliquely 

 ovate, 3-nerved at the base, stalked, toothed, stipules 

 thin, united, entire or toothed ; flowers minute, pink, 

 bracteolate, crowded on axillary, stalked heads ^-^ in. 

 diam., stalks barely 1 in. long, male and female in differ- 

 ent heads on the same or different plants, male calyx 4- or 

 6-lobed, lobes nearly equal, stamens 4 or 5, female calyx 

 3-lobed, lobes very unequal, one large hooded above, two 

 flat, persistent, ovary straight, stigma divided into a tuft 

 of hair-like branches, not persistent ; achenes narrow, ob- 

 long, led, iongei than the calyx. 



