Plants of the Punjab. 115. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE EXXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Crotalaria juneea, 
Sanat, arjha san. 
LEGUMINOS2. 
oe i. 79 
The Plains. 
Itea nutans, 
Lelar, garkath. 
SAXIFRAGACER. 
BB: 1. 1. 408. 
Himalaya, 
3-6,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley, Suni 
(Collett). 
Oshkeckia stellata, 
Lagerstroeemia indica, 
Opuntia Dillenii, 
Prickly Pear, 
Cactus, 
Nagphana. 
CacTACES. 
Boe fe. 657. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Native of South 
America. 
Andrachne 
cordifolia, 
Kurkni, gurgult, 
bersu. 
HUPHORBIACES. 
F. B. I. v. 288. 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Changiagalli (Douie). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, cultivated, branches stiff, slender, 
silky ; leaves 14-3 in. long, at somewhat distant spaces, 
linear or oblong, both surfaces shining with short brown 
silky hairs ; flowers 1 in. long, in 12-20-flowered racemes, 
6-12 in. long, bracts minute, linear, calyx 4-} in. long, 
covered with rusty velvety hairs, teeth very deep, linear, 
corolla bright yellow, smooth, protruding a little out of 
the calyx, stamens 10, united, style long, hairy above ; 
pod 1-14 in. long, covered with silky hairs ; seeds 10-15. 
The fibre is much used for making cordage and sacking. 
large, bark dark grey ; leaves 4-6 by 14-24 in., ovate, 
oblong, long-pointed, glandular-toothed, leathery, dark 
ereen, shining above, leaf stalk 1-14 in. long, stout; 
flowers -/, in. long, white, in clusters of 3-7, forming velvety 
drooping racemes 4-8 in. long, calyx velvety, tube bell- 
shaped, lobes 5, persistent, petals 5, twice the length 
of the calyx lobes, linear, erect, stamens 5; capsule + in. 
long, separating into 2 valves through the ceil partition 
and the style, seeds many. 
see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Shrubs. Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
medium size, stem flat or round or angled, fleshy, 
armed with barbed bristles in clusters; leaves fleshy, 
soon falling off; flowers orange red, solitary, sessile, calyx 
lobes 38-many, small, overlapping, petals many, free or 
. shortly united below, stamens many; fruit one-celled, 
pulpy, seeds many, oblong or kidney-shaped; coccus 
cacti, the cochineal insect, lives on this plant. It is much 
used for hedges. 
small, branches slender, round, smooth; leaves 1-34 
by 4-14 in., long-stalked, thin, margin smooth, ovate, 
oblong, tip rounded, base rounded, stalk 4-? in. long ; 
flowers 2 in. diam., green, on long, slender axillary stalks, 
the males in clusters, females solitary, calyx 5-lobed, petals 
5, stamens 5, females without petals, styles 8, divided into. 
2 long branches ; fruit } in. diam., round with a depression 
above, seeds 6, triangular. 
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