612 Plants of the Punjab. 
SS eens eee ates Nsisl ie AS AM OER CS 
Crimp NG PLants with ALTERNATE ExsTIpULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
PETALS UNITED, 
Porana racemosa, like the last species, but almost smooth, flowers deeply 
Snowcreeper, lobed, larger, in long racemes, calyx lobes all enlarged in 
CoNVOLVULACEA, fru.t. 
He 4s: ig 222: 
Himalaya, 
2-6,000 ft. 
Hathni Kund on 
the Jumna. 
Koti. 
Planted at Lahore 
in the Lawrence 
Gardens. 
Solanum Dulecamara, see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
PETALS NONE. 
Deeringia perennial, branches long, arching, rambling; leaves 
celosioides, 2-5 in., ovate or broadly lanceolate, stalked, long-pointed ; 
AMARANTACER, flowers 4 in. diam., greenish-white in long branching com- 
We; liv. 714, pound racemes, calyx 5-parted, green, segments ovate, 
The Plains to concave, spreading or reflexed, stamens 5, united below, 
5,000 ft. style short, 3-parted ; berry } in. diam., red, round, on the 
Koti. persistent calyx, seeds 3. 
FErua scandens, see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
Basella rubra, annual, smooth, fleshy, twining, much branched ; leaves 
Poi. 2-7 in. diam., broadly ovate, or heart-shaped, or circular, 
CHENOPODIACHR. narrowed into the stalk, entire; flowers minute, red or 
F. B. I. v. 20. white, sess'le on axillary stalked, simple or branched spikes, 
The Plains. 1-6 in. long, bracts m‘nute, soon falling off, bracteoles 2, 
formng a cup united to the calyx, calyx 5-fid, fleshy, 
lobes short, incurved, stamens 5, on the tube mouth stig- 
mas 3; fruit a berry, red, white or black, formed from the 
ca yx lobes containing the round utricle, thin. Cultivat- 
ed as a pot herb, also used medicinally as demulcent and 
diuretic. 
Tragia involvucrata, perennial, evergreen, twining, hairy or felted with 
Barhan‘a, stinging bristles ; leaves 1-4 in., very varied in form, ‘rom 
EvuPHORBIACEA, Inear-oblong to broadly ovate-heart-shaped, long-pointed, 
F. B. I. v. 465. toothed, and from ent're to deeply 38 fid or 3-partite with 
The Plains. toothed almost pinnate lobes; flowers minute (male 
and ‘emale flowers separate, but in the same plant) in ter- 
minal axillary and leaf opposed racemes, 1-2 in., slender, 
