PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



575 



Herbs, erect with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals None. 



Flowers in Terminal Chaffy Spikes. 



Amarantus candatus, 

 Love-Lies bleeding, 



Bathu. 



Amarantaceje. 



F. B. I. iv. 719. 



The Plains to 9,000 ft. 



Baluchistan (Boissier). 



Amarantus gangeticus, 



Amarantace^. 

 F. B. L iv. 719. 

 The Plains to 9,000 ft. 



Amarantus viridis, 



Amarantace^. 

 P. B. I. iv. 720. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



Amarantus poiygamus, 



Amarantus Blitum, 



Amarantus tennifolius, 



/Erua javanlca. 



/Erua lanata, 



Amarantace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 728. 

 The Plains to 2,500 ft. 

 Kahuta, Eawalpindi 



(Douie). 

 Baluchistan (Stocks). 



Chenopodlum album, 



Atriplex crassifolia, 



Chenopodiace^e. 

 F. B. I. V. 5. 

 The Plains to 8,000 ft. 

 Lahore. 



Baluchistan "i ' (Hughes- 

 BuUer). 



very like the last species, but the spikes are long 

 tail-like and drooping bracts shorter and sepals 

 ovate oblong. This plant is less commonly culti- 

 vated. 



like Amarantus 'paniculatus, but the leaves are 

 often pink or red, bracts and sepals with long 

 bristle-like points, sepals 3, stamens 3, seeds 

 larger, very black with a sharp border. This. plant 

 is cultivated and only found on cultivated 

 ground. 



like the last species, but green, bracts shorter 

 than the 2 or 3 sepals, stamens 2 or 3, seeds smaller 

 with a sharp border. This plant is only found in 

 waste places. 



Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, 



Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, 



Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, 



Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, 



see Prostrate 

 Simple. 



see Prostrate 

 Simple. 



see Prostrate 

 Simple. 



see Shrubs, 

 Simple. 



small to medium size, stock woody, much 

 branched, woolly, sometimes prostrate ; leaves ^-1 

 in. ovate or orbicular, stalked, woolly or smooth ; 

 flowers minute, woolly not glistening in spikes, \-\ 

 in., crowded, forming nearly round clusters, all 

 axillary, sessile, sepals 4-5, short, blunt, all or inner 

 only, woolly, stamens 4-5, united below with inter- 

 posed linear staminodes into a cup. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



medium size, annual, stem and branches whitish; 

 leaves 1-1^ in., oblong or ovate, tip-pointed or 

 blunt, base wedged, shaped or forked, stalked, not 

 thick ; flowers one sexual, male and female on the 

 same plant, male without bracts, sepal, 3-5, oblong, 

 blunt, stamens 3-5, in clusters on slender leafless, 

 long terminal interrupted spikes, female with 2 

 bracts, sepals none, stigmas 2, fruit enclosed by 

 the much enlarged leaflike bracts, each with a 



