N. O. ZYCOPHYLLEJE. 
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HabiUtl : — North-West India. Peshawar. 
A small, green, spiny, undershrub, with procumbent 
branches. Internodes short. Lower leaves 3-foliate, the rest 
1 -foli ate ; young branches sub-tetagonous, sides grooved, spines 
(modified stipules) exceeding the ovate, rather fleshy leaflets ; 
young leaflets rather minute. Peduncles solitary from between 
the spiny stipules. Fruit, a capsule, bearing on its top the 
remnant of the tapering subulate style. 
Part used : — The whole plant. 
Use : — The plant is given as a tonic and febrifuge, and in 
the Peshawar Valley it is given to children as a prophylactic 
against small-pox (Bellew). 
It is useful as an application to tumors, also in chronic 
fever, dropsy, and delirium, and in any disorder which arises 
from poisoning. (Punjab Products). 
N. 0. GERAN1ACEJE. 
209. Geruniuu Walliehianum, Sired, ii.f.b.i., 
i. 430. 
Vern : — Liljahri, N. W. P. Kao-ashud (Kashmir) Hoots. — 
Mam-i-ran I Pushtu). 
Habitat : — Temperate Himalaya, from Nepal to Murree. 
A perennial hairy herb. Root-stock thick. Steins robust, 
1- 4ft., erect. Leaves orbicular, 2-5in. across, palmately-3-5- 
lobed ; segments wedge-shaped, pointed, acutely and irre- 
gularly toothed ; stipules oblong-ovate, J-lin. Flowers blue- 
purple, lj-2in. diam. Sepals abruptly long-pointed. Petals 
slightly notched, claw hairy (Collett); filaments suddenly dilated 
at base. Carpels pilose ; seeds smooth. 
The very large solitary stipules best distinguish this 
species (Edgeworth and Hook. Fil.). 
Use : — Aitchison says the root of this plant was brought to 
him in Kuram as a valuable medicine known as Mum-i-ran (Ku- 
ram Valley Flora, J. L. S. xviii-p-26.). 
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