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646 Plants of the Punjab. 
LEAFLESS PLANTS. 
HERBs. 
PETALS UNITED. 
Boucerosia perennial, leafless, stems erect, fleshy, thick, 4-angled, 
Aucheriana, angles toothed, 2-6 in. high, branches 3-4 in. diam. ; flowers 
Charungli, pamanke. 
ASCLEPIADACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 78. 
Dry hills, east of 
the Jhelum. 
The Salt Range. 
Cuscuta reflexa, 
Dodder, 
Nilathari, zarbuti. 
CoNVOLVULACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 225. 
The Plains to 
6.000 ft. 
Mashobra, Fagu, 
Matiana (Collett): 
Sanawar. 
Cuscuta chinensis, 
CONVOLVULACER. 
FP. B. 1. iv.,226, 
Himalaya, 
5-7,000 ft, 
west of the Sutlej, — 
Kashmir, Chamba. 
Cuscuta capitata, 
CONVOLVULACEA., 
Bods ty. Sos 
Hima'aya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir to Simla, 
4 in. diam., purple, in heads, calyx lobes 5, narrow, ovate-— 
lanceolate, corolla wheel-shaped, deeply divided, lobes 5, 
lanceolate, hairless, pustular above, a narrow ring (corona) 
within the corolla, 5-lobed, united to the column, lobes 
2-fid, awl-shaped, with a linear fleshy projection on the 
inner surface, inflexed over the anther, column minute, 
stigma 5-angled, low, conical; follicles 2, 3-4 in., slender, 
straight, tips rounded, seeds flat, winged, witha tuft of 
hair. This plant is considered stomachic, tonic, and car- 
minative. 
annual, parasitic, leafless, stems twining, thread- 
like, attached by minute disks, succulent ; flowers 4-4 in., 
long, yellow, waxy white, fragrant, shortly stalked m many ~ 
small racemes or clusters, calyx 5-lobed, lobes = in., ovate, 
blunt, corolla }-4 in., lobes 5, short, triangular, reflexed, 
stamens 5, attached near the throat of the corolla tube, 
~ stigmas 2, sessile, diverging, long, short-pointed ; capsule 
1-1 in., fleshy, round, 4-seeded. The seeds are used as a 
carminative medicine. The seeds germinate in the ground 
as soon as the young planthas reached a host, suckers. 
penetrate the bark of the host, the root of the parasite 
then dies and it loses its connection with the soil. 
like the last species, but styles 2, long, stigmas round, 
corolla lobes lanceolate, longer pointed, not reflexed. 
like the last species, but stems pink, flowers much 
smaller, in heads, coro!la ovoid, covered without, wifli 
minute papille, styles long, stigmas equally long. 
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