Plants of the Punjab. 593 
CLIMBING PLANTS wITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
= 
Polygonum 
dumetorum, 
PoLyGONACE. 
B.B. Lye 54: 
Himalaya, 
4-9,000 ft. 
Polygonum 
pterocarpum, 
PoLyGoNACE. 
Heeb. ive 54. 
Himalaya, 
5-9.000 ft. 
Simla, Annandale 
(Collett). 
Cherot Nullah. 
Piper 
brachystachyum, 
PIPERACER. 
Hele Wiehe he 
Himalaya, 
2-5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Chota 
Simla (Collett). 
Ficus foveolata, 
Nagar jaman, grelu. 
UrRTICACER. 
BP.B. avs 028. 
Himalaya, 
2-7,000 ft. 
Simla, the Glen, 
Elysium (Collett). 
Valleys below 
Kasumpti. 
chamba. 
PETALS NONE. 
annual, stem twining or prostrate, cylindrical ; leaves 
13-4 in., broadly ovate, heart-shaped, long-po'nted, stipules 
tubular, short ; flowers minute, green or tinged with pink: 
in short axillary, almost erect racemes, minor flower 
stalks hair-like and recurved, not winged to the base, 
usually jointed, calyx 5-partite, segment: blunt, enlarging 
in fruit to + in., 3 outer segments bluntly keeled to broadly 
winged, calyx in fruit broadly oblong or ovate with a broad 
top, stamens 8, styles 8, very short ; nut 4 in. long, 3-angled. 
very like the last species, but the fruiting calyx is 
much larger up to din., or 14 in., segments more broadly 
winged, nut 4 in. 
perennial, woody, smooth, rambling, stems very long, 
scrambling over trees and rocks, swollen and rooting at 
the jomts, branches slender, warted ; leaves, lower leaves 
1-2 in., circular, pointed, upper 2-5 by 1-2 in., ovate, long- 
pointed, narrowed to the base, stipules various ; flowers 
minute, purp'e in the axil of a very small bract, crowded 
on catkin-like spikes, male and female flowers on separate 
plants, male spikes 2-3 in., slender, drooping, calyx none: 
petals none, stamens 2, female spikes } in. long, ovoid, 
stigmas 3, sessile, spreading, fruiting spike round ; berries 
qo In. diam., crowded, 1-seeded. 
perenn al, woody, stems, when creeping and prostrate 
over rocks or tree trunks, rooting at the nodes, velvety or 
hairy. in shady and damp places, when climbing in open 
ground, not rooting and smooth ; leaves on creeping stems, 
2 in., thin, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate on iruiting 
branches and in the open, 8-6 in., leathery, base rounded, 
notched or wedge-shaped, tip often long-pointed, stalks } 
in., velvety, stipules 4 in., in pairs, hairy ; figs 4-4 in. diam., 
round, depressed above, solitary, axillary, shortly stalked, 
often warty and wrinkled, basal bracts 3, ovate, short- 
pointed, often reflexed. 
QQ 
