Plan's of che Punfab. 618 
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Croapinag PLrants with ALTERNATE EXxstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVEs. 
Dioscorea deltoidea, 
Tar, kans. 
_DioscoREACER. 
Rab. evic 291. 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Simla, Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Jaku. 
Dioscorea sativa, 
Asparagus 
racemosus, 
Polygonatum 
eirrifolium, 
Litiacez. 
HS Bed vi. 822. 
Himalaya, 
5-10,000 ft., 
east of the Sutlej. 
Simla, Matiana, 
Narkanda (Collett). 
Gloriosa Superba, 
PETALS NONE. 
bracts small or minute, male flowers above in the racemes ; 
shortly stalked, calyx round, 3-partite, stamens 3, pistil- 
lode 8-fid, female flowers few, below in the raceme, calyx, 
lobes 6, overlapping, hairy, in fruit ? in. diam., stiff, stel- 
lately spreading, oblong, pinnately divided ; capsule 4 in 
diam., cocci 8, 2-valved, seeds mottled. The root is used 
as an alterative and diuretic. 
very like Dioscorea glabra, but leaves alternate, ovate- 
lanceolate, spikes solitary, male spikes long, calyx lobes 
_ broadly oblong ; for other characters see Dioscorea glabra 
under Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Leafless Plants, Petals None. 
perennial, rootstock thick, creeping, annual stems un- 
branched, climbing by the tendril-like tips of the leaves, 
upper part zigzag, leafy, a seal-like mark is leit on the 
rhizome when the annual stem comes off, hence the name 
Solomon’s Seal ; leaves in circles of 3-6, 3-5 in. long, linear, 
narrowed to the tendril-like tips, sessile; flowers 3 in., 
white, often tinged wiih green or purple, drooping in axil- 
lary whorled, short, loose 9-4-flowered racemes ; flower 
stalks jointed near the top, calyx tubular, 6-lobed, petals 
none, stamens 6, inserted in the tube, very short, style 
linear ; berry }-} in., round, blue-black, seeds few. 
see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Cumping Puanrs with ALTERNATE ExstTipuULATE LosBgep LBavas. 
Cocculus villosus, 
Coeculus Lexwba. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
