Plants of the Punjab. 124 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Breweria latifolia, 
CoNVOLVULACE. 
Bees iy, 204: 
The Plains of the 
Western Punjab. 
Cressa eretica, 
CONVOLVULACES. 
Babs bav. 225, 
The Plains. 
Solanum duleamara, 
Woody Nightshade, 
Ruba barik. 
SOLANACER. 
F. B. I. iv. 229. 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Narkanda (Collett). 
Solanum 
verbascifolium, 
Kala mewa, tiart, ola. 
SOLANACEA. 
FP. B.I. 1v. 230 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valley below Simla 
(Collett). 
Withania somnifera, 
Asgand, ak, aksan, 
SoLANACE. 
BeBadle iv..289, 
The Plains. 
Lahore. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, stiff, rough, much branched, densely silky ; 
leaves }-? in., oblong with rounded ends, margins entire ; 
flowers } in.. pinkish, sessile, 1-8 together, axillary, bracts 
small, calyx lobes 5, long-pointed, very silky, corolla 
funnel-shaped, barely 5-lobed, folding at the angles, stamens 
5, enclosed in the corolla tube, styles 2, nearly ununited 
from the base ; capsule ? in., ovoid, 4-seeded, seeds ovoid, 
oblong, smooth. 
small, stem 6-18 in. high ; leaves 4-4 in. long, sessile, 
oblong, short-pointed ; flowers small, in terminal spikes 
or clusters or sessile in the axils of upper leaves, sepals 
$ In. long, equal, corolla 4 in. long, funnel-shaped, white 
or pink, lobes 5, reflexed, stamens 5, projecting beyond 
the corolla, styles 2, linear ; capsule 4-valved, seeds 4, 
smooth. 
small, branches long, trailing, smooth or velvety, 
leaves 1-3 in. long, ovate, oblong or lobed, long-pointed, 
smooth, stalk 1 in. long; flowers $-3 in. diam., purple, 
in loose hanging clusters, calyx teeth 5, blunt, 4; in. long, 
corolla lobes 5, curved back, stamens 5, anther tips meet- 
ing above; berry + in. diam., round, red, seeds many, 
¢ in. diam., smooth. This. plant is used as a diuretic, 
diaphoretic and alterative. 
large, woolly with star-shaped hairs at end of branches 
and flower stalks, bark light grey ; leaves 7-9 by 8-5 in., 
oblong, narrowed at both ends, margins smooth, tip 
long-pointed ; flowers 4-3 in. diam., white, crowded in 
stalked branched clusters, corolla woolly without, sta- 
mens 5, anther tips meeting above; berry 4 in. diam., 
round, smooth, yellow, seeds many, $ in. diam. 
small, thinly woolly branches round; leaves 2-4 in. 
long, ovate, short-pointed, stalk 4-3 in.; flowers greene 
ish-yellow, axillary, sessile or shortly-stalked in cluse 
ters, or solitary, calyx in flower + in., in fruit ? in., bell- 
shaped, 5-6-toothed, in fruit enlarged and nearly round, 
papery, corolla bell-shaped, 4-4 in., lobes 8-6, short ; berry 
round, }-4 in. diam., seeds many, /;in. diam. The root 
is narcotic and diuretic. 
