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Herbs, erect with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals None. 



Axyris amaranthoides, 



Chenopodiace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 8. 

 Himalaya, 5-13,000 ft. 

 Lahoul. 



Kochia indica, 



Chenopodiaceje. 

 F. B. I. V. 11. 

 The Plains. 



Halocharis suiphurea, 



Chenopodiacb^. 



F. B. L V. 19. 



The Plains of N. W. F, 



Province. 

 Baluchistan (Aitchi- 



son). 



Phytolacca acinosa, 



Lubar, rinsag, sarunga. 



PlIYTOLACCACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 21. 

 Himalaya, 4-9,000 ft. 

 Hazara. 

 Kashmir. 



convex, smooth, thick, white, disk at its base, 

 female in small axillary clusters on the lower part 

 of the branches. 



small, annual, with star-shaped hairs or smooth, 

 stem stout or slender, branched from the base ; 

 leaves g-i|^ in., ovate or oblong, blunt or short- 

 pointed, stalk short or slender, when dry, pale 

 yellowish or reddish brown ; flowers minute with- 

 out bracts, male and female on the same plant, 

 male in terminal clusters with 3-5 thin transparent 

 sepals and 2-5 slender stamens, female axillary, 

 solitary or mixed with the males, with 3-4 unequal 

 thin sepals, fruit membranous, held by the sepals, 

 flattened or spherical, tip shortly winged or crest- 

 ed, stigmas hairlike, very long. 



small, annual, softly hairy, branched from the 

 base, branchlets long widely separating ; leaves 

 small, oblong with rounded ends or linear-oblong, 

 short-pointed, sessile ; flowers minute, male and 

 female, sometimes separate, bractless, sepals 5 

 curved in, in fruit closing over leathery with 5 free 

 or vinited horizontal ovate, blunt, thick wings, 

 forming a broad triangular calyx, stamens 5, 

 anthers large, protruding, style slender, stigmas 

 2-3, thread-like, seed orbicular. 



small, annual hairy with long, bristles ; leaves 

 -|-1 in. long, linear, blunt-tipped, almost angled, 

 sessile in clusters at the end of branches, floral, 

 leaves equal to the hairy lanceolate bracteoles ; 

 flowers -i in. diam., in headlike clusters, forming 

 long spikes at the end of short branches, sepals 5, 

 lanceolate, thin, transparent, outer softly hairy, 

 staanens 5, on a fleshy disc, anthers linear con- 

 nected by a long sessile yellow appendage, much 

 longer and broader than the anther, capsule en- 

 closed by the sepals ovoid, flattened, stigmas 2, 

 slender, seed flattened. 



large, stout, fleshy, nearly smooth ; leaves 6-10 

 by 2|-4 in., broadly lanceolate, long-pointed, nar- 

 rowed into a short stalk ; flowers ^ in. diam., green 

 on stalks J in. long in leaf opposed cylindrical 

 racemes 2-6 in. long, bracts linear-lanceolate, thin, 

 sepals 4, broadly oblong, blunt, stamens, 8-10, 

 united below, anthers soon falling oft", fruit of 8-10. 

 carpels, dark purple, fleshy, crowded in an erect 

 stout raceme 4-8 in. long, one seed in each carpel, 

 black, kidney-shaped, shining. This plant was in- 

 troduced from China, is cultivated and found as an 

 escape; the leaves are cooked and eaten, but is 

 otherwise poisonous. 



