586 
Plants of the Punjab. 
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CrmmBiInG PLANTS witH OpposiTE EXxstrpuULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Bridelia stipularis, 
EUPHORBIACE. 
poB. fv. 270: 
Himalaya, 
2-4 000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Boerhaavia repanda, 
NyYcTAGINACER. 
F. B. I. iv. 709. 
The Plains, 
east of the Sutle}. 
Boerhaavia 
verticillata, 
NyoTAGINACEA. 
EB. Lav. 710 
The Plains, 
west of the Jhelum. 
Th> Salt Range. 
Mt. Tilla. 
(Aitchison). 
ZErua scandens, 
AMARANTACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 727. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Koti, 
PETALS UNITED. 
sword-like beak, seeds 4, 4-4 in., ovoid or dorsally flat- 
tened, wrinkled. 
. perennial, woody, half clmbimg, covered with yellow- 
ish-brown felt ; leaves 2-8 by 3-5 in., narrowed to both 
ends, ovate with a broad tip, or circular-oblong, base round 
or notched, slightly felted beneath, :talk }-} m., stout, 
felted ; flowers very small, green, in small axillary clusters 
or long spikes with long stipular bracts, male and female 
together, calyx 4 in. diam., lobes lanceolate, long-poimted 
petals 5, circular, shortly stalked, male flowers sessile: 
s'amens 5, united below in a column, female flowers 
stalked, styles 2, 2-branched; drupe 4 mm. long, oblong 
bluish-black in the calyx which is enlarged to 4 in., stones 
usually 2. 
PETALS NONE. 
perennial herb, half-climbing and straggling over 
things, branche: pale, 6 ft. long, smooth or velvety ; 
leave 1-3 in., triangular-ovate or heart-shaped, short- or 
long-pointed, stalk $-14 in., slender ; flowers minute, pink 
in 2-6-flowered umbels on slender stalks 1-2 in., minor 
stalks 4-1 in., hair-like, calyx 5-lobed, % in. diam., iube 
1 in., petals none, stamens 1-5, projecting far out of the 
tube; fruit tin. long, slender, covered with large glands 
slightly ribbed. 
very like the last species, but leaves broader, blunt- 
er, flowers smaller, sometimes white, fruit smaller, 4 in., 
club-shaped, with large half round glands round the top. 
perennial, climbing, grey-felted ; leaves 1-4 in., ovate 
stalked, hairy, short-pointed; flowers minute, silvery 
white, crowded in ses:ile ovoid or oblong axillary branch- 
ing spikes }-1 in. long, calyx 5-partite, thin, hairy on side 
lobes lanceolate, finely pointed, stamens 5, or 4, alternating 
with staminodes, petals none ; fruit dry ovoid utricle in the 
calyx, one-seeded 
