576 
Plants of the Puryjab . 
CLIMBING PLANTS. 
CLIMBING PLANTS wiTH OpposITE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Sageretia 
oppositifolia, 
Drange, girthan. 
RHAMNACE. 
F, B. I. 1, 641. 
Himalaya, 
2-6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Sageretia theezans, 
Piper 
brachystachyum, 
Humulus lupulus, 
The Hop, 
UrRTICACES. 
BAB. Ly. 404 
Himalaya, 
7,000 ft. 
Simla. 
Kashmir. 
Cultivated. 
perennial, woody, spinous, young parts felted, branches 
long, slender, half climbing ; leaves 2-4 in. long, lanceolate- 
ovate, short or long-pointed, toothed, leathery, dark green 
and smooth above, stalks }in., stipules small, soon falling 
off or changed into prickles ; flowers very small, yellowish- 
green in large terminal branching racemes, velvety and 
often leafy, bracts leaflike, calyx 5-parted, lobes keeled 
within, persistent, tube cup-like, petals 5, hooded, stalked, 
stamens 5, style short, 3-grooved, stigmas 3, drupe } in. 
long, top-shaped, 3-celled, not lobed, black when ripe, 
seeds 3. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
LoBep LEAVES. 
perennial, rough, bristly, rootstock stout, branched, 
stems tall, twining, rough or prickly with reversed bristles ; 
leaves 8-4 in. diam., dark green, upper ovate, lower 3-5- 
lobed, stalked, heart-shaped, toothed, stipules lateral, 
persistent ; flowers green, males and females separate, 
males in branching racemes, 3-5 in. across, females in pairs 
in the axils of broad bracts of a catkin-like ovoid spike, 
male flowers. 4+ in. diam., sepals 5, overlapping, stamens 5, 
united to the sepals, female flowers in heads 4 in. diam., 
yellow, styles purple, fruiting 1} im. diam., scales circular ; 
fruit an ovoid spike of overlapping bracts, in the axils, 
9 flattened achenes each in its sepal. The plant was culti- 
vated in Kashmir, it has some sedative action, and is used 
in brewing beer. 
CLIMBING PLANTS witH Opposite E:xsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Hiptage Madablota, 
Kampti, endra, 
chopar. 
MALPIGHIACER. 
(ara ge igs bg 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
Gurgaon, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
tall, woody, perennial, smooth except young parts which 
are grey felted ; leaves 4-6 in., ovate-lanceolate, shortly 
stalked, entire, smooth, thick ; flowers ? in., white with a 
yellow spot, fragrant, showy in axillary velvety racemes 
forming a leafy branching termimal raceme, 2 bracts near 
the middle of the stalks, calyx 5-parted, felted, a large 
smooth brown sticky vulva-shaped gland on the outer 
surface, petals 5, free, reflexed, silky, stalked, unequal. 
much longer than the calyx, upper petal with a large yellow 
spot, others white, margins wavy, fringed, stamens 10, 
