Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTBRNATH STIPULATH SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Ficus palmata, 
Boehmeria 
platyphylla, 
Pouzolzia viminea, 
UrtTICcAcEm. 
FB. ve 581, 
Himalaya to 
5,000 ft. 
Villebrunea 
frutescens, 
URTICACEA. 
FL 5,1. %., 590. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Debregeasia 
hypoleuea, 
Purum, siaru. 
URTICACER. 
eee he v5 91. 
Salt Range. 
Himalaya, 3-5,000 ft. 
Simla, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
Kotzi, Murree Hills 
(Douie). 
Quercus Ilex, 
Balut,.kharanja. 
CUPULIFERA. 
EF. B. I. v. 602. 
Himalaya, | 
3-8,500 ft. 
PETALS NONE. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
see Shrubs, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 
large, bark rough, grey, thin, stringy, branches slendey, 
branchlets velvety or with hairs, stiff, and lying in lines ; 
leaves 3-5 by 1-1} in., oblong or lanceolate, toothed, long- 
pointed, smooth or slightly hairy above, hairy, grey- 
felted beneath, base 8-nerved, stalk 4-2 in. long; flowers 
in sessile dense axillary rounded clusters, in males calyx | 
3-5-lobed, stamens 4, in females calyx tubular, 8-5-lobed, | 
style slender ; achenes enclosed in the calyx, angled and - 
margined. | 
large, bark dark grey, rough, branches very slender, 
slightly velvety ; leaves 2-8 by 1-4 in., ovate, with long 
tail-like point, minutely toothed except at base, 8-nerved 
at base, rough above, pale or white-felted below, stalks © 
slender, $-4 in. long, stipules } in., lanceolate, velvety ; - 
flowers, male and female, crowded in bracteolate, small, 
sessile, or nearly sessile clusters in axils of previous year’s ~ 
leaves, in males ealyx 4-5-fid, stamens 4-5, in females — 
calyx ovoid, narrowed to a minute mouth, stigma linear ; 
achenes many, black, minute, partially inserted in a white 
‘juicy mass of the calyx and bracteoles. This plant 
yields a strong fibre. 
large, bark thin, dark grey, branches white, woolly ; 
leaves narrow, 3-6 by 4-1} in., linear-lanceolate, long- 
pointed, toothed, bases 8-nerved, rough above, white ~ 
woolly beneath, stalks 1-4 in., stipules divided ; flowers, 
male and female, in rounded, sessile, axillary heads, 
bracteolate, in males sepals 4, shorter than the bracteoles, 
stamens 8-5, in females calyx fleshy, ovoid, mouth con- 
tracted, minute ; fruit yellow, 4 in. diam., fleshy, dotted 
with the minute achenes. This plant yields a strong fibre. 
large, shoots  stellately velvety ; leaves 1-3 -in., 
very leathery, oblong or orbicular, margin smooth or 
spinous-toothed, velvety above when young, woolly or 
very velvety beneath, or smooth when old, nearly sessile, 
stipules soon. falling-off ; flowers minute, in slender short 
clustered’ spikes,--males in pendulous spikes, calyx bell- 
_ shaped, -4-7-lobed,- stamens 6-12; females in erect spikes, 
