Plants of the Punjab. 129 
ee : 
. SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE ExstrepuLATE Lospep LEAVES. 
Tricholepis tibetica, 
CompositTa&. 
Pe Be Fit. $82) 
Northern Kashmir, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Selanum duleamara, 
Solanum indicum, 
Kandyarv. 
SoLANACE. 
HSB. Veivs 254. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Solanum Melongena, 
The Egg-plant, 
Brinjal, bengan. 
SoLANACES. 
Bib. bei. 235. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Solanum eoagulans, 
Bari mauhant, tungr. 
SoLANACEA. 
it Belk ve 230; 
The Plains. 
Nannorhops 
Ritchiana, 
Dwarf Paim, 
Mazri, kilu. 
PALMACER. 
PUB Ty vi. 429: 
N.-W. Frontier 
Province. 
Salt Range to 
8,000 ft. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, branches clustered above, slender, twiggy, 
ending in a stiff flower stalk with a small erect head ; 
leaves 1-3 in. long, sessile, leathery, very narrow, blunt, 
lobed, upper 3-1 by ;1-1 in., ovate, linear, margin not 
lobed ; flowers scarlet, in heads 3-3 in. diam., bracts round 
heads, outer ovate, needle-pointed, inner lanceolate, needle- 
pointed, 3 in. long, corollas 4 in. long; fruit (achenes) 
¢ in. long, rather ribbed, a brush of hairs on top of each 
achene, 4 in. long. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, branches many, very prickly, prickles stout, 
flattened, often recurved ; leaves 8-6 by 1-4 in., ovate, 
lobed, star-shaped hairs above, woolly beneath, nerves 
prickly, stalks 1 in. long; flowers 3-1 in. diam., in lateral 
woolly racemes, calyx 5 lobed, }in., triangular, very woolly, 
corolla lobes 5, broad, triangular, woolly without, stamens 
5, forming a cone ; berry yellow, 4 in. diam., round, smooth, 
protruding beyond the calyx lobes, seeds 4 in. diam., dis- 
coid. The root is said to be aphrodisiac. 
small, prickly or unarmed ; leaves 8-6 by 2-4 in., 
stalk 1 in., ovate lobed, star-shaped hairs beneath ; flowers 
blue, 1-14 im. diam., in short small clusters, calyx lobes 
4-3 1n., oblong, linear, corolla shortly lobed, stamens 5, 
forming a cone, berry 1-9 in., purple green, seeds very 
many, discoid. Generally cultivated. 
very like the last species, but the berry is only 1 in. 
diam., and yellow. The fruit is sometimes eaten fresh 
or pickled. 
large, stem 8-10 ft. high, 4 in. diam.; leaves 2-8 ft. 
in diam., round, split into segments, stalk 6-12 in., mar- 
gins toothed, sheathing ; flowers small on a spike (spadix) 
with branches and branchlets forming a pyramid 2-8 ft. 
long, flowers in pairs, one sessile, the other stalked, con- 
tained in a small spathe (sheathing bract), the whole 
pyramid contained in a large spathe, sepals and petals 
3 each, stamens 3 or 6; drupe round, size of a pea to a 
bullet, one-seeded. The leaves are made into matting, 
baskets and cordage. 
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