PLANTS OF TEE PUN J An. 



701 



Shrdhs with Alticknatk Stipulate Lohep Leaves. 



rarely brownish, adherent to the seeds and overlying 

 a greenish down. This plant is of Indian origin and 



is cultivated to yield cotton. 



Gossypium 



barbadense, 



Malvace^. 



F. B. I. i. 3i7. 



The Plains to 5.000 ft. 



Go3S7Pium arboreum, 



Malvace^. 



F. B. I. i. 347. 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



Selicteres Zsora, 

 Jatropha curcas, 



Baliospermum 

 aziUare, 



Ficus palmata, 



Phagwar, dud't. 



Urticace^. 



P. B. I V. 530. 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



medium size, branches and leaves black-dotted, 

 branches purple ; leaves 3-5 lobed, lobes oblong, long- 

 pointed, nearly smooth, long-stalked, stipules linear 

 lanceolate ; flowers, yellow with a purple spot, on 

 thick stalks, axillary, jointed , single flowered, bracteoles 

 3, very large, deeply cut, leafy, cordate, calyx as in last 

 species, petals with one margin within and one with- 

 out the next one, staminal tube and style like the last 

 species ; capsule oval, long pointed, 3-5 celled, seeds 

 black, covered with easily separable white or brownish 

 cotton. This plant, as its name implies, was intro- 

 duced from America, and is grown to yield cotton. 



large, perennial, branches purple with scattered 

 hairs ; leaves nearly smooth, deeply 5-7 lobed, lobes 

 linear-oblong contx-acted at the base, long stalked, 

 stipules sword-shaped ; flowers large purple rarely 

 white on axillary, jointed, single flowered stalks, 

 bracteoles >, large, heart shaped, ovate, pointed, leafy, 

 nearly undivided, calyx as in the last species, petals 

 spreading, staminal tube and style as in the last 

 species ; capsule about one inch long, oblong-pointed, 

 seeds covered with adhering white cotton over a 

 dense green down. This plant is of Indian origin 

 and only grown to a limited extent in gardens chiefly 

 round temples, 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



large, bark smooth, grey ; leaves 3-5 ins. long, 

 round ovate, pointed, toothed, deeply palmately five- 

 lobed, rough above, felted beneath, stalk i-1 in. long, 

 velvety, stipules soon falling off, ovate, pointed, vel- 

 vety ; figs ^-1 in. dia., usually solitary, velvety, yellow 

 when ripe, basal bracts 3, pointed, soon falling off, 

 stalk ^-^ in. long. 



