84 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



According to Hooker, " a more stately and beautiful plant 

 can hardly be imagined, except the Hollyhock, which it some- 

 what resembles in miniature." 



Part used : — The root. 



Use : — The root is regarded as a narcotic in Kashmir. 



65. M. Wallichii, Hook.; h.f.b.l, i. 119. 



Habitat : — Temperate Himalaya, Nepal and Sikkim. 

 Welsh Poppy. 



A prickly perennial herb ; slender, stellately pubescent and 

 softly hairy in tender parts. Stem 4-6 ft., leafy, branched. 

 Leaves 8-12 in., pinnatifid, oblong or obovate. Lanceolate, 

 glaucous beneath, long-petioled. Flowers much panicled, purple 

 1-1 J in. diam., many, pedicels short. Sepals densely pubescent, 

 not setose. Petals 4. Stamens numerous ; filaments slender ; 

 anthers erect. Style distinct, persistent, stigmatic lobes clubbed. 

 Capsule 1 in., elliptic-oblong, 5-valved, densely bristly, seeds 

 many, small, rugose. 



Part used : — The root. 



Use : — The root is used as a narcotic in Kashmir. 



N. 0. FUMARIACEJE. 



66. Hypecoum procambens, Linn, h.f.b.l, i. 120. 



Habitat: — Drier parts of the Punjab, Peshawar, Multan and 

 the Salt Range. 



A low, annual glaucous herb. Stems procumbent, many, 

 3-12 in., slender. Leaves 2-3-pinnatisect, 2-4 in.. Segments 

 linear or oblong, upper sessile, whorled. Flowers few, 1 in. 

 diam., yellow, pedicelled. Outer petals 3-lobed. Inner petals 

 with the lateral segments iinear-oblong, obtuse, midlobe entire, 

 retuse or 2-fid, toothed or fimbriate (H. /. and Th. . Fruit 

 1-2-2 J in., i in. broad, curved, sub-compressed, at length break- 

 ing up into 1-seeded joints. 



Parts used : — The leaves, 



Uses ; — The juice has the same effect as opium. The leaves 

 act as diaphoretic (Murray). 



