582 
Plants of the Punjab. 
CLIMBING PLANTS witH OpposiTE ExsTipUuULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Periploca Hydaspidis, 
Oxystelma 
esculentum, 
Dudhlutta, gharote, 
gann. 
ASCLEPIADACEA. 
PL a Boe ee hy a 
The Plains. 
Pentatropis spiralis, 
Ambar vel, vanveri, 
arkpushpi. 
ASCLEPIADACEA. 
Bes! Tin. 19! 
The Plains. 
Demia extensa, 
Karial, siali, trotu. 
ASOLEPIADACE®. 
Pei iv.'20. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
The Salt Range. 
Changa Manga. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
PETALS UNITED. 
see Leafless Plants, Petals United. 
perennial, decidous, very slénder, smooth ; leaves 4-6 
by 4-lin., lanceolate or linear, finely long-pointed, thin, 
stalks $in., very slender ; flowers white and rose-coloured, 
with purple veins, 1 in. diam., in few-flowered, slender, 
stalked clusters, calyx small, corolla 5-lobed, bristly, tips 
overlapping to the right, 2 rows of scales, one row 
at the bottom of the corolla, the other joined to the bottom 
of the stamens with dilated bases, 2-keeled within, pollen 
masses one in each cell, flattened, hanging down, waxy ; 
follicles 2-3 in., oblong-lanceolate, seeds } in., very many, 
broad-ovate, flat with a tuft of hairs. 
annual, slender, smooth, twining herb, roots tuberous ; 
leaves 1-1} in., ovate, lanceolate or oblong, leathery, stalk 
$-3 in. ; flowers } in. diam., green, in axillary umbel-like 
clusters on very short stalks, calyx minute, 5-partite, corolla 
wheel-shaped, 5-fid, lobes ovate-lanceolate, long and fine- 
pointed, overlapping to the right, twisted to the left, 
scales 5 in the tube united vertically to the back of the 
anthers with free tips and spurred bases ; follicles 24-3 in., 
spindie shaped, smooth, seeds }in. long, ovate, flat with a 
tuft of hairs. The roots are eaten. 
perennial, slender, twining, hairy, juice milky ; leaves 
2-4 in. across, broadly ovate, long-pointed, deeply notched 
at the base, stalk 2-4 in., velvety beneath ; flowers 4-? in. 
diam.; yellow-green, tinged with pink at the base, fetid, 
long stalked in axillary umbel-like clusters, calyx 5-fid, 
lobes small, ovate, velvety, corolla tube very short, lobes 
broad, fringed, scales in 2 rows, outer 10, minute, united 
to the base of the staminal tube, inner 5, white, laterally 
flattened, joined to the staminal tube, spurred behind, 
tips long, linear, spirally twisted over the stigma, stamen 
stalks jomed, anther tips bent in, pollen masses waxy, 
stigma almost 5-angled; follicles 14-2 in., lanceolate, 
long-pointed, covered with long soft prickles, seeds } in., 
velvety, ovate, with a tuft of hairs. The fibre is equal to 
flax, the juice is emetic and expectorant. , 
