Plants of ihe Punjab. 



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Shrubs with Opposite Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Leptodermis 

 lanceolata, 



EuBIACEiE. 



F. B. L iii. 198. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Dharmpur 

 (Bomford). 



Leptodermis virgata, 



EUBIACB^. 



F. B. I. iii. 198. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-7,000 'ft. 



Gaillonia 

 calycoptera, 



RuBIACEiE. 



F.B.I, iii. 201. 

 The Plains, Attock. 



Gaillonia 

 hymenostephana, 



EUBIACE^. 



F. B. I. iii. 202. 

 The Plains. 

 Waziristan, 3,500 ft. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Boissier). 



small, bark thin, grey, leaves and young shoots fetid 

 •when crushed ; leaves 1-3 in., shortly stalked, narrowed 

 at both ends, finely pointed, both surfaces covered with 

 minute white hairs, stipules short, broad, pointed, persis- 

 tent ; flowers | in. long, white or purplish, in small bracteate 

 heads at the end of short branches forming a large branch- 

 ing raceme, each flower half enclosed in a tube of 2 

 pointed partially united thin bracts, calyx 5-lobed, small, 

 fringed, persistent, corolla funnel-shaped, lobes 5, short, 

 spreading, stamens 5. short, style long, 5-branched ; capsule 

 cyhndric, ^ in., splitting into 5 valves, seeds 5 each in a loose 

 covering. 



slender, rigid, very bushy, white, velvety ; leaves 

 i.| by ^-l in., linear, acute, margins flat or recurved, white 

 beneath, stipules triangular with stiff long sharp recurved 

 points, white, calyx smooth, hairy, corolla | in, long, 

 velvety, purplish, stamens 5, style as above ; capsule | in., 

 seeds with a few free fibres attached to the covering. 



small, branches slender, stiff, erect, dividing in twos, 

 lower white ; leaves -J-l in. long, linear, in distant pairs, 

 margins rolled under, somewhat rough, stipules united 

 with the leaf stalk into a sheath with teeth ; flowers 

 small, white, in spikes, calyx 2-5-toothed, dilated after 

 flowering into a thin feathery wing, corolla funnel- 

 shaped, lobes 4-5, stamens 4-5, style thread-like, arms 

 2, short ; fruit § in. long, of 2 narrowly oblong lobes, 

 crowned with the enlarged calyx, seeds oblong, grooved. 



very small, branches stiff, widely spreading, slender, 

 very fetid when fresh ; leaves |-i in., linear, oblong, 

 margins rolled under, stipules rudimentary except of 

 floral leaves, which are joined and 2-lobed ; flowers solitary 

 or in small clusters at the end of branchlets, like the 

 last as to calyx, corolla and stamens : fruit of 2 hairy lobes 

 crowned with a large orbicular horizontal 5-lobed wing. 



Petals none. 



Ficus hispida, 



Gohla, daduri. 



URTICACEiE. 



F. B. I. V. 522. 

 The Plains to 

 3,500 ft. 



medium size, bark thin, grey, smooth, warty on old 

 stems, often with transverse wrinkles, branches hollow ; 

 leaves 4-12 in. long, ovate, short-pointed, toothed, leathery, 

 rough above, woolly beneath, leaf stalk |-4 in. long, stipules 

 I in. long, velvety ; fruit is a fig, top-shaped, 1 in. long, 

 hairy, yellowish and faintly ribbed when ripe, usually 



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