396 JOURNAL, BOMBA Y NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



Shrubs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals None. 



Halos7lon 

 multifiorum, 



Lana, gora lana, 

 lana. 



Chenopodiace^. 

 F. B. I.v. 16. 



The Plains. Salt 

 to 2,000 ft. 



small, pale, much branched, almost leafless, jointed 

 branches, stem very stout, 4-6 ins. high, branches in 



gJiori clusters ; leaves consist of two broad very rounded, 

 tips on each joint ; flowers on short spikes, bracteoles, 

 round concave ; sepals very short obtuse, in fruit the 

 sepals have round membranous fan-shaped wings and 



range ^^^ ^ -^^^ diam,, stamens 5 with alternating rounded 

 staminodes. 



Anabasis pliyllOPllOra. dwarf, smooth, pale, almost leafless, stems many, 

 CHEN0P0DiAC£.a:. erect, stock woody, joints long ending in two acute 



F. B. I. V. 18. triangular teeth (leaves ?), flowers in the axUs of joint- 



The Plairis oy the Jhelum leaves, fruiting calyx with three wiflgs arching over 

 river. one larger than the others, seed erect, circular, flatten- 



ed ; in other respects very like Haloxylon. 



Anabasis setifera, 



Chenopodiace-j:. 

 F. B. I. V. 19. 

 Salt range. 



Ettpliorbia Tirucalli, 



Sehud, sehnr. 

 EUPHOEBIACE.S!, 

 F. B, I. V. 254, 

 The Plains. 



B^iams sempervirens, 

 Boztree, 



Chikri, pupri, .shanixhad. 

 KUPHOKBIACE.J:. 



F. B. I, V. 267. 

 Salt range. Himalaya, 

 .~)-9,000 ft. Simla, 

 Mashobra, Mahasu 

 (CoUett). 



very like the last species, but the leaves are thick 

 fleshy nearly cylindric with a bristle, soon falling off, 

 axil of leaves woolly, floral leaves rounded, wings of 

 fruiting calyx 3-5, transparent, circular with the base 

 heart-shaped. 



large, stem green, bark brown fiosured, branches 

 numerous, at first slender like rushes, growing as 

 thick as the finger ; juice milky, leaves ^-^ in. long 

 soon falling off, obtuse, linear-oblong ; flowers ^ in. 

 long, top-shaped, two leaves at the base of the short 

 flower stalks, capsule | in., dark brown, lobes flatten- 

 ed, velvety, seeds smooth, ovoid. 



large or small, much branched, bark yellowish grey, 

 corky, fissured, branchlets four-angled ; leaves f-3 by 

 i-^ in., linear oblong, shining, leathery, tip acute 

 rounded or with a shallow notch, stalk very short ; 

 flowers in short very dense axillary racemes, the ter- 

 minal flower female, male flowers have sepals 4 in 

 two rows, stamens equal in number to the sepals, 

 female flowers have 6 sepals, two outer much smaller ; 

 capsule h in. long, ovoid, three-cornered with three 

 horns, thick like handles to an urn, seeds 3-6. small. 

 On the Salt range it is dwarfed, leaves ^-1 in. long. 



