Plants of the Punjab. 605 
CuimBInG Phants with ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Schizandra 
grandiflora, 
MAGNOLIACES. 
F. B. 1.1. 44. 
The Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Simla, Jaku, 
Matiana, Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Cocculus laurifolius, 
Coceulus villosus, 
Hier, kursan. 
MENISPERMACE®. 
BEB ator: 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Giri Valley’ 
(Collett). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Coceulus Lezeba, 
Vallur, parwatti. 
MENISPERMACES. 
Beebe le in 102: 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
The Park, 
Rawalpindi 
Chakwal (Douie) 
Baluchistan. 
(Lace). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
perennial, woody, smooth, branches long, slender, 
twining ; leaves 8-6 by 1-2 in., ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 
long-pointed, alternate or clustered, teeth small, distant, 
rather fleshy, stalks and veins beneath red ; flowers 1 in. 
diam., white, round, solitary, fragrant, on stalks 1-2 in. 
long, axillary or in the axils of scales near the base of short 
lateral leafy branches, sepals 8, petal-like, petals 6, waxy, 
white often tinged with pink, ovate, concave, outer | maller, 
male flowers, stamens 40, small, united below into a column, 
female flowers larger, sepals more brightly coloured, ovaries 
many, minute, sessile on a column, in fruit lengthening to 
6-9 in. with many round sessile 2-seeded red berries 4 in. 
diam. 
see Trees, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
perennial, grey-felted, hairy; leaves 2-8 in. long, ovate 
or ovate-oblong, sometimes 8-lobed, hairy, stalk 4 in. ; 
flowers minute, male few, narrow in axillary branching 
racemes, 1-14 in. long, female 1-8, sessile at the end of short 
axillary stalks, sometimes in racemes, sepals 6, in 2 series, 
outer smaller, petals 6, smaller than the sepals, usually 
auricled,in male flowers stamens clasped by the petals, 
6, free, anthers 4-lobed, in female flowers staminodes 6, 
ovaries 3, style simple ; drupes 3} in., dark purple, laterally 
flattened, stone beautifully moulded. A bluish-purple ink 
is made from the fruit juice, the roots and leaves are used 
in medicine as a demulcent, a laxative and an alterative. 
like the last species, but leaves linear-oblong, mala 
flowers in sesssile axillary clusters, female 1-8, sessile at 
the end of short axillary stalks ; the plant is used locally 
in the treatment of malarial fever. 
