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imbricate. Petals none. Stamens many. Carpels many, sessile, 

 many ovuled, Style short, carved. 



Fruit a head of narrow, flattened, many-seeded follicles, 

 beaked with the persistent styles. 



Use : — In Hazara, the root is considered poisonous. 

 (Stewart;. 



8. Coptis leeta, Wall, h.f.br.l, i. 23. 



Vern. : — Tita(Ass); Mahmira (Sind, ; Mamira (EL). 

 Habitat : — Met with in Mishmi mountains, east of Assam, 

 in temperate regions. 



Small stemless herbs. 



Rootstoch horizontal, perennial, golden yellow, woody, 

 densely fibrous, very bitter. Leaves ternatisect, glabrous, 

 petioles 6-12 in. ; leaflets 2-3 in., ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid, 

 lobes incised, terminal largest. Scape equalling the leaves. 

 Flowers 1-3 — pedicelled, regular, small, white on slender leafless 

 scapes. Bracts leafy. Sepals 5-6, J in. oblong— lanceolate, acute. 

 Petals 5-6, narrow, ligulate, obtuse, f shorter than the sepals. 

 Garpels pedicelled, spreading. Ocules many. Follicles many- 

 seeded. Seeds with a black crustaceous testa. Mishmi nuts, 

 Bengal. 



Part used : — The root. 



Use: — It is a bitter tonic, useful in fevers and atonic dys- 

 pepsia. 



9. Delphinium denudatiim , Wall. h.f. br. l, i. 25. 



Vern. :— Nirbisi, judwar (EL); Nilobikh (Nepal); Munila 

 (Simla). 



Habitat : — West temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to 

 Knmaon, in grassy places. 



Glabrous or slightly downy herbs. Stems 2-3 ft. branched. 

 Radical — leaves 2-6 in. across, orbicular, long-stalked, divided 



