36 PAPAVERACEM. [Papatee. 



Eschscholtzia californica, Cham. (Californian Poppy) is frequently 

 grown as a cold-weatlier annual in the plains. 



Sap milky or coloured, flowers regular ; stamens 

 indefinite, free. 



Glaucous or hispid herhs with milky sap . 1, Papaveb. 



A prickly herh with yellow sap . . 2. Abgemone. 



Sap watery, flowers irregular ; stamens 6, dia- 

 delphous 3. Fumaeia. 



1. PAPAVER, Linn. : PI. Brit. Ind. i. 116. 



Annual, rarely perennial herbs, with milky juice. Leaves lobed or 

 cut. Flotoers on long peduncles. Ovary 1-celled ; stigma discoid 

 or pyramidal, with radiating lobes opposite the placentas, which project 

 into the cell. Capsule short, opening by small valves under the 

 lobes of the persistent stigma. Seeds small, pitted. 



P. somniferum, Linn. 8p. PI. SOS ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 571; W. ^ A 

 Prod. 17 ; Hh. f. ^ T. Fl. Ind. 250 ; F. B. I. i. 117 ; Field Sf Gard. Crops 

 N. ■PF.P. df- Oudh,i.64, t. XV; Watt E.B. Vern. Post, afim. (Opium 

 Poppy.) 



A glaucous annual, usually quite glabrous, rarely branched. Leaves 

 oblong, amplexieaul, lobed ; lobes dentate. Flowers large, white, some- 

 times purple or scarlet. Capsule stalked, 1 in. in diam. globose,, 

 glabrous ; stigmatic rays 5-12. Seeds white or black. 



Largely cultivated as a cold- weather crop within the area, but chiefly 

 in t le Eastern districts. Occasionally met with as an escape. The 

 Opium Poppy, unknown as a wild plant, is now generally regarded as 

 having originated through cultivation from a Mediterranean species, 

 P. setigerum, which differs chiefly in being more or less hispid ; it also 

 has fewer stigmas, P. Rhceas, Linn., var. latifolia, is grown as an orna-^ 

 mental annual in many gardens of Upper India. 



2. ARGEMONE, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 117. 



Erect glaucous herbs with yellow juice. Leaves with spiny teeth. 

 Flowers large, showy. Sepals 2 or 3. Petals 4-6. Stamens 

 many. Ovary 1-celled ; style veiy short ; stigma 3-6-lobed ; ovules 

 many, on 4-6 parietal placentas. Capsule prickly, dehiscing at the 

 top by short valves. Seeds many. — Natives of the warmer parts of 

 America, of which the following species has become naturalized 

 in India. 



A. mexicana» Linn. Sp. PI. 508 ; Bo7;h. Fl. Ind. ii, 571 ;W. Sf A. Prod, 

 18; tCoyle 111. 66; Hk.f. S( T. Fl. Ind. 251 ; F. B. I. i, 117; Watt E. D. 

 (Mexican or Prickly Poppy.) 



