Plants of the Punjab . 



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EEECT SHEUBS. 

 Shrubs with Opposite Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Bergia odorata, 



Elatine^. 

 F.B.Li. 251. 



The Plains. 



Bergia aestivosa, 



Elatine^. 

 p. B. L i. 251. 

 The Plains. 

 Multan. 



Euonymus 

 Hamiltonianus, 



Siki, singi, naga. 

 Celastrace^. 

 F. B. L i. 612. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-6,000 ft. 



Sageretia 

 oppositifolia, 



Sageretia theezans, 



Petals ununited. 



small, one foot or less high,widely spreading, glandular, 

 hairy, bark papery peeling ; leaves -f'^-| in., sessile, thick, 

 ovate, margins minutely toothed, often reflexed ; flowers 

 I in. long on bare branches in bunches, sepals and petals 

 5, stamens 10, styles 5 ; capsule 5-celled, seeds many, 

 minute, curved. 



small, much like the last, but not glandular, hairy, 

 much branched, branches slender, widely diverging, flowers 

 solitary or 2-4 together, pink, sepals lanceolate with mem- 

 branous margins. 



large, bark thick, corky, ashy grey ; leaves 2-6 by f-l| 

 in., dull green, oblong, long-pointed, finely toothed, smooth, 

 thin, leaf stalk | in. long, stipules fringed, soon falling 

 off ; flowers ^ in. diam., greenish- white, in short clusters, 

 sepals 4-5j petals 4-5, margin rolled under, stamens 4-5, 

 styles short ; capsule l-l in. long, top-shaped, deeply 3-4- 

 lobed, yellow when ripe, seeds one to two in each cell, en- 

 closed in a red fleshy skin. 



see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 



see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Sageretia 

 Brandrethiana, 



see Erect Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple.^ 

 Petals united. 



Hymenodictyon 

 excelsum, 



Kukarhat. 

 Rubiace.b. 

 F. B. I. iii. 35. 

 Himalaya, east of 

 the Piavi river, to 

 2.500 ft. 



large, bark soft, brownish -grey, smooth on branches, 

 corky and furrowed on old stems ; leaves 4-10 by 3-5 in., 

 ovate-oblong, with round ends or long-pointed, membranous, 

 velvety on both surfaces, narrowed into a stalk, 1-3 in. 

 long, stipules soon falling off, oblong, broad based, recurved ; 

 flowers I in. long, white, fragrant, in large spreading branch- 

 ing racemes with bracteate spicate branches, br ots 

 large, leafy, persistent, calyx |-g- in., soon falling off, 

 lobes 5-6, corolla -i in. long, funnel-shaped, lobes 5, short, 

 sharp, stamens 5; capsule ^-| in. long, on short recurved 



