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Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE EXXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Withania coagulans, 
The Cheesemaker, 
Panirband, 
spinbayja. — 
SoLANACER. 
F. B. I. iv. 240. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
Shahpur (Douie). 
Lycium europeun, 
Kangu, mral, 
chirchitta. 
SoLANACE. 
F. B. I. iv. 240. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Lycium barbarum, 
Barghauna. 
SoLANACER. 
Hero. lety. 241. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Lahore. 
Lycium ruthenicum, 
Khichar, kitserma. 
SoLANACEA. 
F. B. I. iv. 241. 
Kashmir, 6-9,000 ft. 
Bridelia stipularis, 
Flacourtia 
Ramontchi, 
Preraus UNITED. 
small, greyish from minute star-shaped hairs ; leaves 
1-2 in. long, oblong, blunt, thick, narrowed at the base 
very shortly stalked; flowers }$ in. diam., pale yellow, 
mealy from the minute star-shaped hairs outside, in short 
stalked hanging axillary clusters, calyx £ in. in flower 
2 in. in fruit, velvety, corolla bell-shaped, lobes hemied 
back ; berry and seeds as in the last species W. somnifera. 
The fruit is emetic when fresh, anodyne and carminative 
when ae It is used as an efficient substitute for animal 
rennet. 
small, spinous; leaves 3-1 in. long, often clustered 
at the joints, linear-oblong ; flowers 4 in. diam., purplish 
white, solitary or in clusters at the joints, calyx 4} in. 
often 2-lipped, teeth 5, not larger in fruit, corolla funnel- 
shaped, lobes 5-4, half the length of the tube, stamens 
5-4 on the corolla tube, smooth at the base; berry % in. 
diam., nearly round, many-seeded. The berries are edible 
and considered to be aphrodisiac. 
like the last species except that the corolla lobes are 
more than half as long as the tube. It is called the Tea 
plant in South Africa. 
like the last species except that the leaves are 
linear, calyx is 3-4-lobed and the stamens are hairy at 
the base. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
PETALS NONE. 
see Trees, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
