Plants of the Punjab. 49 
SHRUBS WITH OpposITE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Leptodermis 
lanceolata, 
RUBIACER. 
Peat. it. FOS: 
Himalaya, 
4-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Dharmpur 
(Bomford). 
Leptodermis virgata, 
RUBIACES. 
F. B. I. iii. 198. 
Himalaya, 
4-7,000 ft. 
Gaillonia 
calycoptera, 
RvuBIACER. 
Babel. 11.201. 
The Plains, Attock. 
Gaillonia 
hymenostephana, 
RUBIACE. 
BB. bu. 202: 
The Plains. 
Waziristan, 3,500 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Ficus hispida, 
Gobla, dadurt. 
UrTICACER. 
Ba8. Lv. 5283 
The Plains to 
8,500 ft. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, bark thin, grey, leaves and young shoots fetid 
when crushed ; leaves 1-3 in., shortly stalked, narrowed 
at both ends, finely pointed, both surfaces covered with 
minute white hairs, stipules short, broad, pointed, persis- 
tent ; flowers 4 in. long, white or purplish, in small bracteate 
heads at the end of short branches forming a large branch- 
ing raceme, each flower half enclosed in a tube of 2 
pointed partially united thin bracts, calyx 5-lobed, small, 
fringed, persistent, corolla funnel-shaped, lobes 5, short, 
spreading, stamens 5, short, style long, 5-branched ; capsule 
cylindric, }in., splitting into 5 valves, seeds 5 each in a loose 
covering. 
slender, rigid, very bushy, white, velvety; leaves 
1-4 by ,.-} in., linear, acute, margins flat or recurved, white 
beneath, stipules triangular with stiff long sharp recurved 
points, white, calyx smooth, hairy, corolla 4 in. long, 
‘velvety, purplish, stamens 5, style as above; capsule } in., 
seeds with a few free fibres attached to the covering. 
small, branches slender, stiff, erect, dividing in twos, 
lower white; leaves 4-1 in. long, linear, in distant pairs, 
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 2 narrowly oblong lobes, 
crowned with the enlarged calyx, seeds oblong, grooved. 
very small, branches stiff, widely spreading, slender, 
very fetid when fresh; leaves 4-4 in., linear, oblong, 
margins 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, corolla and stamens; fruit of 2 hairy lobes 
crowned with a large orbicular horizontal 5-lobed wing. 
PETALS NONE. 
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 4-4 in. long, stipules 
4 in. long, velvety ; fruit is a fig, top-shaped, 1 in. long, 
hairy, yellowish and faintly ribbed when ripe, usually 
B 
