956 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



Shrubs with Alternate Exstipdlate Simple Leaves. 



Petals United 



LyCiUBl rutlieniCUZa, same as the last species except that the leaves are 



Kiehar, kitserma, 

 SOLANACE^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 241. 

 Kashmir, 6-9,000 ft. 



Sodonaea viscosa, 



Sanatta,men(lii,ghuraske. 



Sapindace^. 



F. B. I. i. 697. 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. 



Salt Range. 



Hazara. (Barrett). 



Bosia Amherstiana, 

 Amarantace^. 

 F. B. I.iv. 716. 

 Himalaya, 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Diktali in Giri Valley. 



2irxia javanica, 



Boikalan. 

 Amarantace^. 

 F. B. I.iv. 727. 

 The Plains. 



Eurotia ceratoldes, 



CHENOPODIACE.a!. 

 F. B. I. V. 8. 

 Himalaya, 8-14,000 ft. 



linear, calyx is 3-4 lobed and the stamens are hairy 

 at the base. 



Petals None. 



medium size, evergreen, young leaves and shoots 

 sticky with yellow resinous dots, smooth red branch- 

 lets ; leaves nearly sessile, 1^-3 by ^-1 ins., lanceolate 

 with a broad tip to linear wedge shaped, leathery ; 

 flowers small, yellow in short terminal racemes, 

 sepals 5, ovate, petals none, stamens usually 8 , cap- 

 sule 3-(or 2-4) celled, valves winged on the back, 

 wings membranous round, broad ; seeds 1-3. This 

 plant is often grown as a hedge plant, 



medium size, stout, smooth, branches long, strag- 

 gling ; leaves 3-7 by 1-4 ins., ovate, shortly stalked, 

 short pointed, base pointed or rounded, narrowed 

 into the stalk ; floweis green with white margins, 

 J in. diam., nearly sessile, crowded in axillary, simple 

 or branched spikes, never longer than the leaves, or 

 in branched terminal racemes, sexes usually separate, 

 sepals 5, rounded, concave, stamens 5, bracteoles 2-4 ; 

 berries ^ in. diam,, round, red, 



small, grey woolly, stem rounded, 2-3 ft., branched, 

 :f in. thick ; leaves 1-4 ins., flat or with margins curved 

 down, sessile or narrowed into the stalk, linear or 

 oblong ; flowers j^ in. long, covered with white wool 

 in long spikes ; sexes usually separate, sepals 4-5, 

 woolly, stamens 4-5, joined below, alternating with 

 linear staminodes in a cup, styles short or long ; fruit 

 dry, ovoid, surrounded by the sepals with one seed. 



small, grey with star-shaped hairs ; leaves i-li ins. 

 long, linear-oblong, blunt, floral leaves narrower, 

 margin often curved down ; flowers minute, no petals, 

 fruiting bracts with long red brown silky hairs ^ in. 

 long, stamens 4, sepals 4, in female flowei-s bracts 4, 

 joined together, stigmas 2, seed one. 



