808 
Plans of the Punjab. 
CuIMBING PLANTS wiTtH ALTERNATE E:xsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Smilax aspera, 
LInIAcEz. 
F. B. I. vi. 806. 
Himalaya, 
4-7.000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Cicsampelos Pareira, 
Tricosanthes dioica, 
Palwal. 
CUCURBITACER. | 
FB. 1) 01,609: 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Herpetospermum 
caudigerum, 
Cephalandra or 
Coccinia indica, 
Codonopsis 
rotundifolia, 
CAMPANULAOES. 
BY. B: 1. a. 482. 
Himalaya, 
7-11,000 ft. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
like the last species, but branches grooved, more 
or less prickly, leaves usually mottled, marg ns, nerves, 
and stalks sometimes prickly, tendrils long, flowers sweet- - 
scented, bracts minute, berries red at first, then blue- 
black. 
PETALS UNITED. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Petals ununited. 
annual, stems rough, woolly, slender, climbing by 
lateral 2-fid tendrils; leaves 8 by 2 in., ovate-oblong, 
hollow at the base, gap-toothed, not lobed, stiff, rough 
on both sides, stalk # in ; flowers 14-3 in white, male and 
female on different plants, male flowers not racemed, 
woolly outside, calyx tube 12 in., narrow, teeth 5, linear- 
erect, corolla 5-fid nearly to the base, lobes long-fringed, 
stamens 8, anthers free, long-linear, female flower solitary 
calyx and corolla as in the male ; fruit 2-34 in., orange-red 
when ripe, oblong, pointed, smooth, seeds 3-4 in., many, 
flattened, corrugate on the margin. Cultivated for its 
fruit which is cooked as a vegetable ; the root, leaves and 
juice of the fruit are used as a purgative, bitter tonic and 
febrifuge. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
perennial, twining, root tuberous ; leaves 2 by } in., 
linear or ovate from a rounded base, toothed, slightly 
hairy or smooth, stalk 3? in. ; flowers 3-1} by ? im., purple 
or bright grey blne on solitary stalks 1-6 in., axillary, ter- 
minal, calyx-lobes 5, 3 by 4-4 in., often toothed, corolla 
widely bell-shaped, shortly 5-lobed, stamens 5, free, style 
cylindric, stigma 8-lobed ; capsule 4-3? in. broad, beak } 
in., fleshy, then dry, seeds ;1, in., very many, netted, slightly 
flattened, brown, 
