Plants of the Punjab. 607 
Ne AR eS ae FSP at reer SYN SS PE ea es 7, 
Curmpine Puants with ALTERNATE Exstipunate Simpy LeAvss. 
Sabia campanulata, 
SABIACEA. 
BeBe ietly 
Himalaya, 
5-9,000 ft., 
east of the Sutlej, 
Mashobra, 
Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Hedera Helix, 
VY; 
Kuri, kurol, karbaru. 
ARALIACER. 
By l. 115739, 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
The Salt Range. 
Smilax parvifolia, 
LiniAcez, 
F. B. I. vi. 804. 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
Smilax vaginata, 
LILIACER., 
Bo Bik vis 805: 
Himalaya, 
6-9,000 ft. 
Simla, Jaku, 
Mahasu, Narkanda 
(Collett), 
Kashmir, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
perennial, smooth, branches always have bud scales 
at their base ; leaves 3-7 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, long- 
pointed, netted below ; flowers 3? in. diam., brown-purple, 
bell-shaped or round, axillary, solitary, stalks 1-2 ati 
club-shaped, calyx 5-parted, very short, lobes almost 
equal, overlapping, petals 5, 4-4 in. long, ovate, concave, 
blunt, stamens 5, styles 2, simple, erect, more or less touch- 
ing, tips recurved ; drupe } in. diam., round, solitary or in 
pairs, wrinkled, flattened, stone 1-seeded. 
perennial, stem smooth, climbing by means of many 
small rootlets; leaves 3-4 in., linear-lanceolate, heart- 
shaped-ovate, entire or lobed, stalk 4-2 in. ; leaves on 
barren branchlets more lobed and smaller than those on 
flowering branches; flowers yellow-green, small in stel- 
lately hairy umbels, solitary, or 2 or 8 together, sometimes 
compound, bracts triangular, bracteoles minute or none, 
calyx not toothed, petals 5, valvate, stamens 5, styles 
united ; fruit } in. diam., smooth, round, yellow turning 
black. 
perennial, rootstock thick, creeping, branches round, 
smooth, without prickles, often zigzag; leaves 24-34 by 
14-13 in., broadly lanceolate, base heart-shaped, long- 
pointed, waxy-green below, tendrils 2, on the top of the 
leat stalk sheaths; flowers minute, purple, on solitary 
stalked axillary umbels, male and female on different 
plants, bracts many, sepals 8, linear-oblong, petals 8, nar- 
rower, male flowers, stamens 6, shorter than the sepals 
and petals, female flowers, staminodes 8, stigmas 8, sessile, 
recurved ; berry 3-4 in. diam., round, blue black, seeds 
usually 2. 
like the last species, but branches often mottled, 
leaves ovate or almost round, no tendrils, no bracts, in 
female flowers 6 staminodes. 
