PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margists Entire. 



Petals None. 



flowers minute, green, axillary, nearly sessile, 

 males and females on the same jDlant, solitary or 

 clustered, male flowers, calyx of 6 circular sepals, 

 stamens 3, rarely 5, more or less united at the 

 base, female flowers, calyx of 6 oblong sepals, 

 styles 3, with two hooked arms; capsule }o in., 

 prickly, hard, brittle with three 2-valved lobes, 

 seeds transversely furrowed. This plant is said to 

 be used as a diuretic and as a cure for jaundice. 



Phyilanthus simplex, 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Phyilanthus niruri, 



Sada, huzuv-mani, 

 jaraula. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 298. 



small to medium-size, annual, quite smooth, 

 branched from the base, stem naked below, 

 branches angular slender leafy; leaves ^-f in., 

 oblong or linear, tip rounded, blunt or sharp-point- 

 ed, thin, nearly sessile, pale green, often in two 

 The Plains to 3,000 ft. rows overlapping, bluish waxy gloss beneath 

 stipules minute, awl-shaped ; flowers green, very 

 many, minute, shortly stalked, male flowers soli- 

 tary, anthers 3, sessile on a short column, styles 

 ununited, capsule round, hardly lobed, smooth, 

 seeds with ribs and faint cross lines ; otherwise 

 like Phyilanthus urinaria (described above) and 

 with the same medicinal properties. 



Leap Margins Toothed. 



Triumfetta pilosa, 



Petals Ununited. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



Triumfetta rhomboidea, medium-size to large, perennial, smooth, or 



Chikti, velvety ; leaves 2-3|^ by 1^-3 in., broadly ovate, or 



TiLiACEiE. 4-angled with the lateral angles blunt or heart- 



F. B. I. i. 395. shaped, 3-7 nerved, apex short-pointed or 3-lobed, 



The Plains to 6,000 ft, toothed, stipules ununited ; flowers J in., yellow in 



Simla (Collett). dense clusters, flower stalks short, buds oblong, 



Koti. club-shaped, pointed, sepals 5, oblong, concave 

 pointed, petals 5, oblong, bristly at the base, 



