Plants of the Punjab. 73 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
*« 
Capparis spinosa, 
The Caper, 
Kakri, kander. 
CAPPARIDACE. 
Pb ein (3. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley ¢ 
(Collett). 
Choa Saidan Shah 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan. 
(Aitchison). 
Capparis aphylla, 
Karil, kira. 
CAPPARIDACE. 
Bees teete U1 oe 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Capparis sepiaria, 
Hiungarna, hius. 
CAPPARIDACEA. 
Be beleae b7 7. 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Helicteres Isora, 
East Indian Screw 
Tree, 
Marorphal, kupast. 
STERCULIACER. 
HB: kee Oo: 
The Plains. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, trailing, young parts with yellowish-white wool ; 
leaves 1-2 in. long, broadly ovate, thick, abruptly termi- 
nating ina sharp point, stipules of two spines, straight or 
curved ; flowers 1-3 in. diam., solitary, white, fading to pur- 
ple, sepals 4, unequal, concave, petals 4, 1 in. long, stamens 
many, longer than the petals, purple ; berry 1-3 in. long, 
fleshy, ribbed, red inside when ripe. Buds and unripe fruit 
pickled as a condiment, and ripe fruit eaten raw. 
large, much branched, branches smooth, slender ; 
leaves (only on young shoots) §-% in. long, slender, ending 
gradually in a sharp point, soon falling off, stipules two, 
sharp, straight spines ; flowers 1 in. diam., in short clusters 
on lateral short shoots, pinkish-ycllow ; fruit $-2 in. long, 
smooth, long-beaked, red when ripe. Buds and unripe 
fruit pickled as a condiment. 
medium size, sometimes climbing, wiry, straggling, 
branches woolly, stem thorny ; leaves usually 2-1} in. long, 
green, variable in shape, ovate, smooth above, downy 
beneath ; flowers 4-4 in. diam., white, in clusters with stalks, 
radiating from one point, petals narrow, oblong ; berry $ in. 
diam., round, black when ripe, one-seeded. 
a 
large, branches thin, spreading, bark grey, young 
shoots covered with stellate hairs; leaves 8-6 by 2-4 in., 
alternate in two opposite rows on the branchlets, rounds 
ovate, short-pointed, rough above, velvety beneath, stipules 
1 in. long, linear ; flowers 1-2 in. long, solitary, or two to 
four together in a cluster on a short stalk, axillary, calyx 
tubular, almost 2-lipped, crown woolly, petals 5, scarlet, 1 
in. long, turned back, two lower much the largest, staminal 
tube 5«toothed at the apex, styles 5; fruit 2 in. long, con- 
sisting of five spirally twisted woolly follicles on a long stalk. 
From its twisted shape the fruit is considered good for the 
twisting pain of colic. 
