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Planis of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Casearia tomentosa, 
Chilla, bair. 
SAMYDACE. 
F.B..L i. 698. 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. Suni. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
Kahuta, Letrar 
(Douie). 
Patiala. 
Calligonum 
polygonoides, 
Phog, phok. 
PoLYGONACES. 
HB): Vs oe: 
The Plains. 
The Salt Range, 
2,000 ft. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Polygonum chinense, 
PoLYGONACES. 
FB. 12 vy. 44. 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla. 
The Glen (Collett). 
Polygonum 
polystachyum, 
Amldandi, tror. 
PoLYGONACEA. 
BBall. v50: 
Himalaya, 
7-12,000 ft. 
Matiana. 
Narkanda (Collett). 
PETALS NONE. 
large, bark light grey to dark brown, branchlets 
hairy ; leaves 8-7 by 12-3 in., oblong, hairy, minutely 
toothed, stalks short, stipules minute, soon falling off; 
flowers hairy, greenish-yellow, many clustered in the axils 
of leaves, calyx 4 to 5 segments, hairy, petals none, 
stamens 8, alternate with hairy scales, style one, stigma 
simple or 3-fid; capsule ? in. long, 38-valved, fleshy, 
yellow, 6-ribbed when dry, seeds with a red coat. The 
fruit is used as a diuretic. 
large, branches many, slender, pale, nearly leafless ; 
leaves linear, minute, stipules (ochrea) short; flowers 
solitary or few, with sheaths, stalks 4-3 in., sepals 5, flat, 
broad, red with broad white edges, stamens 12-18 ; nuts 
4-1 in. diam., oblong, 4-angled, hard, covered with many 
reddish-brown stiff bristles, seed 4-angled. The flowers 
are cooked and eaten. 
medium size, rambling, stems and branches many, 
changing their course in a curve from joint to joint, angled, 
finely grooved; leaves 5 by 1% in., rough with minute 
prickles, oblong-lanceolate, long-pointed, stalks shortly 
winged above, sometimes 2-eared at the base, stipules 
8 in. long, tubular, white with long waving points ; flowers 
white or pink, in heads }-4 in. diam., on stalks forming a 
large level cluster, bracts flat, ovate, sepals 5, stamens 8, 
styles 8, united half way up ; nuts 3-angled, black, enclosed 
in the dry or fleshy calyx. 
medium size, stems angled, hairy, densely hairy at the 
ends of branches; leaves 4-9 by 1}-34 in., oblong-lance- 
olate, lower stalked or the upper nearly sessile, long-pointed, 
upper surface thinly hairy or smooth, lower densely hairy, 
stipules tubular, very long, hairy, pointed ; flowers } in. 
diam., white or pinkish, in terminal branching racemes 
6-18 in. long, bracts flat, short, blunt, sepals 5, spread- 
ing, 3 inner broadest, 2 outer narrow, stamens 8, 
styles 8, only joined below; nuts small, 3-angled, pale 
brown, not closed up tight in the calyx. The leaves and 
shoots are cooked and eaten. 
