572 



Plants of the Punjab. 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Chrozophora 

 tinctoria, 



Euphorbiace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 408. 

 The Plains. 

 The Salt Eange. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Lace). 



Chrozophora obliqua, 



EuPHORBIACEiB. 



P. B. L V. 409. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, 

 Ferozepore. 



Chrozophora plicata, 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. L V. 409. 

 The Plains. 



annual, prostrate, felted with .-tar-shaped hairs, 

 root stout, branches 6-10 in. ; leaves 1|-2| in., long-stalked, 

 from ovate gap-toothed or entire to round; d bluntly lobed, 

 thick, softly felted on both sides ; flowers sessile, axillary, 

 bracteate racemes, bracts one-flowered, male flowers crowded 

 at the top of the raceme, female solitary, stalked, males, 

 calyx round or ovoid, segments 5, petals 5, short, stamens 

 5-20, united below, females, calyx segments narrow, 

 petals narrow or none, disk glands short, broad, styles 3, 

 2-fid ; capsules | in. diam., covered with silvery scales, 3 

 2-valved cocci, seeds one in each cell. 



like the last species, but more erect bushy plant, sta- 

 mens usually 5, leaves ovate, gap-toothed, not lobed. 



like Chrozophora tinctoria, but upper surface of leaves 

 rough, no fringed silvery scales on the capsule, leaves 

 larger. 



Petals none. 



Orygia decumbens, 



see Prostrate Herbs. Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Digera arvensis, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Amarantus 

 tenuifolius, 



Amarantacb^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 722. 

 The Plains. 



small, smooth, branches 6-18 in., leafy, slender, many, 

 spreading from the root, prostrate or ascending ; leaves |-1 

 in. long, linear-oblong, or widened to the rounded blunt 

 or 2-lobed tip ; flowers small, green, in axillary clusters, 

 bracts shorter than the sepals, sepals 2, oblong, concave, 

 nearly as long as the round, flattened, thin utricle, petals 

 none, stamens 2, utricle plicate when dry, seeds j\ in. 

 diam., brown, border blunt. 



^rua lanata, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



