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Plants of the Punjab. 
CLIMBING PLANTS witH ALTERNATE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVEs, 
Stephania elegans, 
MENISPERMACES. 
BB Ae 108: 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
6-7,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Stephania rotunda, 
. MENISPERMACES, 
F. B. I. i. 103.55 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Cissampelos Pareira, 
Dakh nirbisi, katort. 
MENISPERMACES, 
BB. 1. 1.108, 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Meerua arenaria, 
CAPPARIDACE. 
i ass, 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
The Park, 
Rawalpindi, Delhi, 
Celastrus paniculata, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
perennial, smooth, branches angled, slender ; leaves 
21-4 by 1-23 in., triangular-ovate, entire, short-pointed, 
base rounded, pale beneath, stalk from the middle of 
the blade ; flowers . in., purple, in axillary umbels, solitary 
or several in a long-stalked cluster, male flowers sepals 6, 
long-pointed, petals 8, thick fleshy ovate with a broad 
tip, stamens 6, united into a column, anthers round the 
dilated top, female flowers sepals 3, petals 3, style 3- 
branched ; drupe small, red, smooth, round, stone flatten- 
ed, horse shoe-shaped, sides hollow, perforated. 
like the last species, but roots tuberous, leaves round, 
flowers yellow. 
perennial, velvety or felted; leaves 1-4 in. across, 
circular or broadly ovate, stalk long, attached to the under 
surface of the blade ; flowers small, male flower in stalked 
branched axillary clusters or on long axillary stalks, each 
cluster in the axil of a small leaf-like bract, sepals 4, hairy, 
ovate, spreading, petals united in a 4-lobed cup, stamens 4, 
united in a short column, anthers round the margin of the 
summit, female flowers crowded in long axillary racemes 
in the axils of round bracts, sepal 1, velvety, broadly ovate, 
petal 1, opposite the sepal, smaller, deeply lobed, style 
8-fid ; drupe 4 in., scarlet, hairy, round. The bark and 
leaves are used in medicine, the root, katort, however, is 
more esteemed, being used as a demuleent, diuretic and 
tonic. 
perennial, woody, smooth or velvety ; leaves 4-8 in., 
broadly ovate, short-pointed, blunt or notched ; flowers 
2-1 in. long, white, in terminal clusters or on lateral shoots, 
calyx funnel-shaped, lobes 4, valvate, petals 4, lanceolate, 
short-pointed, smaller than the calyx lobes, stamens 
many, protruding, placed upon the column bearing the 
ovary ; berry 2-5 in. long, fleshy, deeply contracted between 
the 2 seeds. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
