PLAXTS OF TIJE PUNJAB. 



61)5 



SiiKrr..> WITH Ai.TKnxATK Sni'UL.vrr. Simim.i: I^kavks. 



Petals Nonk. 



waving points ; flowers whitu or pink, in heads ^^-k in. 

 diam., on stalks foi-ming a large level cluster, bracts 

 flat, ovate, sepals 5, stamens 8, style 8, united half 

 way up ; nuts 3-angled, black, enclosed in the dry 

 or fleshy calvx. 



rolygonum polysta- 



Amldandi, tror. 

 POLYGONACE^. 



F. B. I.v. 50. 



Himalaya, 7-13,000 ft. 

 Muttiant.. 

 Narkanda (Collett). 



medium size, stems angled hairy, densely hairy 

 at the ends of branches ; leaves 4-9 by l}-'^i ins. 

 oblong-lanceolate, lower stalked or the upper nearly 

 sessile, long pointed, upper surface thinly hairy or 

 smooth, lower densely hairy, stipules tubular, very 

 long, hairy, pointed ; flowers } in. diam., white or 

 pinkish, in terminal branching racemes 6-18 ins. lono- 

 bracts flat, short, blunt, sepals ,5, spreading, three 

 inner broadest, two outer narrow, stamens 8, styles 

 :', only joined below ; nuts small, 3-angled. pale 

 brown, not closed up tight in the calyx. The leaves 

 and shoots are cooked and eaten. 



Foly^ontim 

 sum, 



yidia. 



POLYGONACE^. 

 F. B.I. V. 52. 

 Himalay:i, 0-16,500 ft. 

 Lahoul. 



tortuo- ^mall, branches widely sepai-ating with joints like 

 knees, smooth, shining, red brown; leaves 1-2 ins, 

 long, pale green, turning red, sessile leathery, from 

 oblong to round, blunt or acute, stipules tubular, 

 short, with the end cut off ; flowers ^ in. long on very 

 short velvety stalks in dense branching, racemes 

 ^-1 in. long, calyx lobes oblong, erect, nut pale, 3- 

 angled. ovate included in the calyx. The plant is 

 used in Lahoul for dyeing cloth a yellow colour. 



Fipcr brachysta- 

 cliyum 



Euphorbia nivulia, 



Snihur, Tliura. 

 KUPUOEBIACE^ 

 K. B. I. V. 255. 

 Himalaya to .3,000 fi. 



see Climbers, Alternate, Stipulate. Simple. 



large, smooth, fleshy, branches nearly cylindric in 

 groups of four, juice milky, copious , leaves 6-12 

 ins,, linear tip rounded, or ovate oblong with broad 

 and rounded tip, fleshy. Braooth, stipules of two 

 prickles on one tuljercle. tubercles spirally or verti- 

 cally arranged ; flowers in clusters of three, consisting 

 of bracts with stamens and in the centre a stalked 

 3-celled capsule often hanging over, styles 3-bianched 

 the capsule \ in, broad divides into three cells, one 

 smooth seed in each cell. 



