PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



373 



JShrdbs with Opposite Stipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Petals United. 



Gaillonia oalycoptera, 



llUBlACEJE. 



F.B. I. iii. 201. 

 The Plains, Attock. 



Saillonia hyueno- 

 stepJiana, 

 Rdbiace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 202. 

 The Plains. 

 Waziristan. 3,500 ft. 



small, branches slender, stiff, erect, dividing in 

 twos, lower white ; leaves small linear in distant 

 pairs, i-1 in, long, margins rolled under, somewhat 

 rough, stipules united with the leaf stalk into a 

 sheath with teeth ; flowers small, white in spikes, 

 calyx 2-5 toothed, dilated after flowering into a thin 

 feathery wing, corolla funnel-shaped, lobes 4-5,stamens 

 4-5, style thread like, arms 2, short ; fruit ^ in. long 

 of two narrowly oblong lobes, crowned with the 

 enlarged calyx, seeds oblong, grooved. 



very small, branches stiff, widely spreading, slender, 

 very fetid when fresh ; leaves \ — ^ in., linear, oblong, 

 raai^ns rolled under ; stipules rudimentary except of 

 floral leaves, which are joined and 2 lobed ; flowers 

 solitary or in small clusters at the end of branchlets ; 

 like the last as to calyx, coroUa, etc.; fruit of two 

 haii-y lobes crowned with a large orbicular horizontal 

 five lobed wing. 



Petals None. 



Ficus 2uspida, 



Gtihla, Daduri. 



Ukticace^. 



F.B.I. V. 522. 



The Plains to 3,500 ft. 



Baelimeria platy- 

 pliyUa, 



F. B. I. V. 578. 

 URTICACE.S:. 

 Himalayas, lo 5,000 ft. 

 Valleys . below Simla 

 • CCollett). 



medium size, bark thin, grey, smooth, warty on old 

 stems, often with transverse wrinkles ; branches 

 hollow ; leaves 4-12 in. long, ovate, short pointed, 

 toothed, leathery, rough above, woolly beneath, leaf 

 stalk i-4 in. long, stipules ^ in. long, velvety ; fruit is 

 a fig, top-shaped, 1 in. long, hairy, yellowish and 

 faintly ribbed when ripe, usually clustered on leaf- 

 less bi-anchlets from the old wood, or on young plants, 

 in pahs on leafy branches. The bark is used in 

 native medicine as an emetic. 



large, branches rough, dark brown, four-sided : 

 leaves usually opposite, stalked, broadly ovate or 

 orbicular, 4-9 by 3-7 in., long pointed, toothed, stalk 

 li-5 in., rough ; flowers male and female, whitish on 

 long branching drooping spikes, male calyx 3-5 fid. 

 stamens 4-5, female calyx tubular, 2-4 toothed, style 

 far protruding ; fruit narrowed or beaked at the four- 

 toothed tip. 



