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INDIAN MEDIOINAI, 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. Walliehii, Hook.; h.f.b.i., i. ]19. 
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| 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. FUMARIACE.ZE. 
66. Hypeeoum procumbens, Linn, h.f.b.i., 1 . 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 linear-oblong, obtuse, midlobe entire, 
retuse or 2-fid, toothed or fimbriate (H. /. and Th.). Fruit 
1 \-2\ in., | 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). 
