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Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH OpposiITE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Periploca aphylla, 
Bata. 
ASCLEPIADACES. 
BBe sige: 
The Plains. 
The Salt Range. 
The Park, 
Rawalpindi. 
Pindigheb. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Calotsopis gigantea, 
Mudar, ak. 
ASOLEPIADACES. 
Heo, iv. 17. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Baluchistan. 
Calotropis procera, 
Mudar, ak. 
ASCLEPIADACES. 
BES. dey, 18: 
The Plains to 
3,500 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Cynanchum 
Vincetoxicum, 
Cynanchum 
glaucum, 
Cynanchum 
Jaquemontianum, 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, juice milky, branches as thick asa goose quill or 
less, smooth or tips velvety, sometimes leafless ; leaves 
4-4 in. linear, thick ; flowers purple, in opposite clusters, 
branches of common stalk, short, thick, sepals 5, broad, 
corolla 4-2 in. diam., fragrant, edible, taste like raisins, 
smooth externally, lobes ovate, densely bearded internally, 
above the middle coronal scales within corolla, stamens 
in a column with 5 tips; follicles ? by } in., woody, cylin- 
drical, rigid, seeds + in., oblong, with a tuft of hairs 1 in. 
long. 
large, bark pale, juice milky, acrid, young parts 
white, woolly ; leaves 4-8 by 1-3 in., sessile, ovate, smooth, 
whitish-creen above, cottony beneath; flowers #?-2 in. 
diam., pink with purple spots, in loose racemes or solitary. 
calyx lobes 5, corolla lobes 4, spreading, coronal scales 5 
within corolla, truncate, hairy, stamens joined into a column 
with 5 tips ; follicle recurved, 3-4 in. long, thick, wrinkled, 
covered with white wool, seeds + in., broadly ovate 
with a tuft of hairs. The milky juice forms a kind of 
Guttapercha. The root bark is an emetic and cure for 
dysentery. 
like the last but smaller, leaves larger, more oblong, 
acute, flowers scented, corolla lobes erect, coronal, scales 
acute, smooth or only velvety, follicles 4-5 in., seeds 
ovoid. 
see Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, Entire. 
see Herbs, 
Opposite, Hxstipulate, Simple, Entire. 
see Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, lWntire. 
