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Vern.:—Guddi kum (Jhelum); Gudi (Ravi); Kanada (Sutlej) Kanta (Simla); (Pb); Kanda (Kumaon).

Habitat:—Western. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaori. 11-1,5000 ft.

A prickly herb, stem leafy, 1-2 ft., smooth, except the short scattered prickles, leaves irregularly pinnatifid, 4-8 in. oblong or lanceolate, long petioled, cauline, sessile. Flowers blue-purple, 2-3 in. diam. Pedicels slender, prickly in fruit. Capsules short and densely bristly and prickly, J-f in., obconic-obovate or oblong, style half as long.

Part used:—The root.

Use:—In Kashmir, the root is considered as a narcotic, and in Chumba regarded as poisonous. (Stewart).

Habitat:—Temperate Himalaya, Nepal, and Sikkim.

A perennial herb, with yellow juice, stellately pubescent and laxly hairy, stem 3-5 ft, stout, erect, nearly simple ; young-parts clothed with soft gold villous hairs. Leaves sinuate-lobed or pinnatifid. Flowers golden yellow, 2-3y in. diam., in elongated, nearly simple, racemes. Sepals densely tomentose and bristly. Petals 4. Ovary 1-celled, style J in., persistent. Stigmatic lobes, radiating on its clubbed extremity. Capsule ovate-oblong, 8-10-valved ; clothed with ad pressed hairs and stellate down. Seeds small, many, rugose.