PLANTS 01 THE PUNJAB, 



577 



Herbs, ekecx with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals None. 



Thymelsea arvensis, 



Thymrl^ce^^. 

 F. B. I. V. 194. 

 The Plains below 



Jamniu. 

 Kashmir. 

 Ramu, 6,000 ft. 



Wikstrsemia canescens, 



Diarthron vesiculosum, 



Thymeljsce^e. 

 F. B. I. V. 196. 

 N. W. F. Province. 

 Peshawar (Vicary). 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



Euphorbia Wallichii, 



EUPHORBIACB^, 



F. B. I. V. 258. 



Himalaya 6-12,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



Chamba. 



Jammii. 



Euphorbia pilosa, 



Hairy iSjmrge, 



EXJPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 260. 

 Himalaya, 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (OoUett). 

 Murree. 



small to medium size, annual, very slender, 

 smooth, straight, branches few leafy erect ; leaves 

 5-^ in., linear-lanceolate long-pointed, nearly erect, 

 sessile ; flowers ^ in., sessile in all the leaf-axils, 

 forming long leafy very slender spikes; bracts 

 small, calyx urn-shaped or tubular, 4-lobed, lobes 

 erect, blunt, ovate, very short, stamens 8 in 2- 

 series, anthers nearly sessile ; fruit ^o-i iii- loiig> 

 ovoid, dry, narrowed upwa'-ds. 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 



small, annual, slender, much branched, leafy ; 

 leaves -|-§ in., linear, nerveless, somewhat waxy 

 bluish green, sessile, blunt or almost pointed ; 

 flowers minute, on very short stalks in slender 

 racemes, J in. long, lengthening to 1 in. in fruit, 

 calyx 1 in. long, urn-shaped or tube very slender, 

 closing over the fruit, bladder-like when the fruit 

 does not ripen, lobes 4, spreading, stamens 8, 

 in two series; anthers alnjost sessile, lower smaller 

 than the upper ; fruit /^ To ™- lo^ig? dry, narrowly 

 ovoid. 



medium size to large, stock perennial, stems 

 annual, velvety above, branched or not, juice milky; 

 leaves 3-5 in., linear or oblong, with rounded ends 

 or ovate with a broad pointed tip, sessile, thin, 

 nerves many, spreading, floral leaves, 1-| in. diam., 

 clustered at the end of stem or branches, 3-4 large, 

 rounded or oblong, ovate, short-pointed ; flowers | 

 in, diam., in compound umbels, rays and flower 

 stalks, few short, male and female organs in one cup- 

 shaped 4-5 lobed calyx, lobes almost concealed by 

 5 horizontal kidney-shaped glands placed in their 

 angles, glands smooth, rounded, fleshy, margins 

 woolly; stamens many; anthers globular surrounding, 

 a stalked orbicular 3-lobed capsule hanging down 

 on one side, styles 3 united to the middle, dividing 

 into two; capsule ^ in. diam., consisting of 3 woody 

 one-seeded cells; seeds A in. smooth, grey-blue. 



very like the last species, but smaller bracts 

 yellow-green, flowers smaller, glands yellow, styles 

 long, capsule J in. diam., covered, more or less 

 with small, often minutely, hairy tubercles, seeds 

 smooth. 



