948 JOURNAL, BOMB A Y NA TURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol, XI ]i. 



Shrdbs with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Petals Ununited. 



S 4 



in. long, covered "with rusfy velvety hairs, teeth 

 very deep, linear corolla bright yellow, smooth, pro- 

 truding a little out of the calyx, stamens 10, united, 

 style long, hairy above; pod 1-1^ ins. long, covered 

 with bilky hairs, seeds 1U-15. The fibre is much used 

 for making cordage and sacking. 



Itea nut a as, 



SAXIFRVOACEiE. 

 F. H. I. ii. 408. 

 Himalav!!, 3.6,(100 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley, Snni 

 (Collett). 



large, bark dark grey, leaves 4-6 by H-2J ins., ovate 

 oblong, long-pointed, glandular-toothed, leathery, 

 dark green, shining above, leaf stalk 1-1 5^ ins. long, 

 stout ; flowers white, j^ in. long, in clusters of '6-1 

 forming velvety, drooping racemes 4-8 ins. long, 

 calyx velvety, tube bell-shaped, lobes 5, persistent, 

 petals 5, twice the length of the calyx lobes, linear, 

 erect, stamens 5 ; capsule \ in. long, separating into 

 2 valves through the cell partition and the style, 

 seeds many. 



OsbecMa stellata, 



see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Lagerscroemia indica, 



see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



OPuntia SillenU, 

 Pricfcly raar, 

 Cactus, 



Nagi'hai'a. 



Cactace^ 



F. B. I. ii. 657. 



Tho Plains to 7,000 ft. 



Native of South Ameiica. 



medium size, stem flat or round or angled, fleshy, 

 armed with barbed bristles in clusters ; leaves fleshy, 

 soon falling off ; flowers orange red, solitary, sessile, 

 calyx lobes 3-many, small, overlapping, petals many, 

 free or shortly united below, stamens many ; fruit 

 one celled, pulpy, seeds many, oblong or kidney 

 shaped ; coccus cacti, the cochineal insect lives on this 

 plant — It is much used for hedges. 



Andiacline cordifolia, 



Knrkhi^ ijv.rgu'-i, brnsii. 

 EDPtH»KBIACE-S. 

 F. B. I. V. 'J8S. 

 nimaliiVH, r)-S 000 ft. 

 Sin.la, .Masliobr 1 (CoUctt). 

 Chang ag.ilii (Duuie). 



small, branches slender, round, smooth: leaves long- 

 stalked, 1-."| by |-H ins., thin, margin smooth, ovate 

 oblong lip rounded, base rounded, stalk |-^ in. long, 

 flowers ^ in. diim, green on long, slender axillary stalks, 

 the males in clusteis females solitary, calyx 6 lobed 

 petals 5, stiimf ns 5, females without petals, styles 3, 

 divided into "2 long bianches ; fruit -f in. diam, round 

 with a depression al ove,^seeds G, triangular. 



