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Plants of the Punjab. 
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CruimBpinc PLANTS witH Opposirr ExstTrpuLATE SimpLE Leaves. 
PRTALS NONE. 
yellow, finally red, pollen orange, style long, linear bent 
up at the base, green then red, tip 8-branched ; capsule 
14-2 in., oblong, blunt, seeds many, round. ‘The root is 
supposed by Indians to be a powerful drug, and poisonous, 
it is used as an ecbolic, but the only medicinal pro- 
perties it possesses are stomachic and tonic. 
CrimBinG PLANTS witH Opposite ExstipuLATE LoBpep LEAVEs. 
Pergularia minor, 
see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
Cummping PuaNts witH Opposits ExstipuLATE CompounpD LEAVES. 
Jasminum 
dispermum, 
CLEACES. 
F. B. I. i. 602. 
Himalaya, ~~ 
2-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Lansdowne 
Falls 
(Collett). 
Kari Dak 
Bungalow. 
Jasminum officinale, 
Jasminum 
grandiflorum, 
Clematis montana, 
Ghantial. 
RANUNCULACES. 
F, B. 1.14. 2, 
Himalaya, 
4-12,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Bagi. 
PETALS UNITED. 
perennial, smooth, branches long ; leaves 4-6 in., 
leaflets 8-5, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, 
end one 2-4 in., largest ; flowers 3-1 in., white, in crowded 
axillary clusters or terminal branching racemes, leaflike 
bracts }in., real bracts =; m., calyx tube short, teeth 5, 
short, corolla salver-shaped, tube $ in. clyindric, lobes 5, 
1 by }in., broad narrowed to both ends, stamens 2, short, , 
included in the tube, style slender, stigma almost 2-lobed ; > 
berry 2-lobed, sometimes simple, seeds 2 or 1. 
see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Compound. 
gee Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Compound. 
PRTALS NONE. 
perennial, woody, smooth or silky, stem round, chmbing 
by its leaflets; leaves with 3 leaflets, stalked, clustered 
at the node‘, leaflets ovate, toothed or deeply divided ; 
flowers 2-3 in. diam., white, often scented, solitary on stalks 
longer ‘han the leaves, sepals 4, oblong, flat, spreading, 
tip rounded, smooth or silky outside, petals none, stamens 
many, smooth; fruit is a head of almost sessile achenes, 
styles persist as long feathery tails. 
