50 
Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH OpposiITE STIPULATE SimpLH LEAVES. 
Beehmeria 
platyphylla, 
mB. Ty 578. 
UrtTICACE. 
Himalayas, 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
PHTALS NONE. 
clustered on leafless branchlets from the old wood 
or on young plants, in pairs on leafy branches. The bark 
is used in Indian medicine as an emetic. 
large, branches rough, dark brown, 4-sided ; leaves 
usually opposite, 4-9 by 3-7 in., stalked, broadly ovate 
or orbicular, long-pointed, toothed, stalk 14-5 in., rough ; 
flowers, male and female, whitish on long branching droop- 
ing spikes, male calyx 3-5-fid, stamens 4-5, female calyx 
tubular, 2-4-toothed, style far protruding ; fruit narrowed 
or beaked at the 4-toothed tip. 
SHRUBS WITH OpposiTE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Sambucus Ebulus, 
Dwarf Elder, 
Ganhula gandla. 
CAPRIFOLIACE 3. 
| haya 5 peu Bs th 
Kashmir, 
6-10,000 ft. 
small, leaves 9 in. long, unequally pinnate, leaflets 
5-9, oblong, lanceolate, 3-6 in. long, slightly velvety, 
stipules often leafy ; flowers white, pik or dark purple, 
with a strong odour, in large manyerayed level bracteate 
bunches, calyx 38-5-toothed, corolla 4 in. diam., 3-5-lobed, 
broad, stamens 6; drupe } in. diam., round, black when 
tipe, crowned with the calyx. The root and berries are 
purgative. 
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SHRUBS WITH OpposITE EXxsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Berberis vulgaris, 
Barberry, 
Chochar. 
BERBERIDACEA. 
PB 17,109: 
Himalaya, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Narkanda (Collett). 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Berberis aristata, 
Kashmal. 
BERBERIDAOBA. 
fab. 1,1. 110. 
Himalaya, 
6-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, wood yellow, bark brown, soft; leaves 1-8 
in. long, in tufts in the axils of 38-5-forked spines, 
stalked, margin spinous, toothed ; flowers pale yellow in 
drooping racemes longer than the leaves, sepals 6, petal- 
like, in 2 series, petals 6, in 2 series, stamens 6, style short ; 
berry oblong, ovoid, red when ripe. This plant is used 
as a diuretic. 
like the last species, young branches tinted red, leaves 
sessile, broad, lanceolate, 14-2 in. long, margin with few 
teeth, racemes long-stalked, branched, longer than the 
leaves. The root is used as a cure for ague in Indiar 
medicine. 
