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Plants of the Punjab. 



Shrubs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Pupalia lappaeea, 



Haloxylon reeurvum, 



Khar, laghme. 

 Chenopodiaobju. 

 'F. B. I. V. 15. 

 The Plains. 

 Salt Eange to 

 6,200 ft. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Boissier). 



Haloxylon 

 multiflorum, 



Lana, gora lana, 

 shori lana. 



CnENOPODIAOEiE. 



F. B. I. V. 16. 

 The Plains. 

 Salt Eange to 

 2,000 ft. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Anabasis 

 phyllophora, 



Chenopodiaob^. 

 F. B. L V. 18. 

 The Plains by the 

 Jhelum river. 



Anabasis setifera, 

 Chenopodiaob. 

 F. B. L V. 19. 

 Salt Bange. 



Viscum album. 

 Mistletoe, 



LORANTHAOBiE. 



F. B. L V. 223. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mahasu 

 (CoUett). 



Petals none. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



medium size, straggling, smooth, covered with a hoar 

 frost-like bloom, dark brown, branches opposite, jointed, 

 separating widely, ^tiff or bent back, ending in straight 

 spines 2-6 in. long, joints of stems |-| in. apart, of spikes 

 I in. ; leaves |-| in., 3-angled or nearly cylindric, ovate, 

 blunt or acute ; flowers small, solitary or in spikes in the 

 axils of leaves, bracteoles 2, sepals 5, concave, increas- 

 ing in fruit and horizontally winged, stamens 5 or less 

 on the margin or base of a cup-shaped depression ; fruit 

 one-seeded, in a glistening papery shallow cup. 



small, pale, much branched, almost leafless, jointed 

 branches, stem very stout, 4-6 in. high, branches in 

 clusters ; leaves consist of two broad very rounded tips 

 on each joint ; flowers on short spikes, bracteoles round, 

 concave, sepals very short, obtuse, in fruit the sepals have 

 round membranous fan-shaped wings and are ^ in. diam., 

 stamens 5 with alternating rounded staminodes. 



dwarf, smooth, pale, almost leafless, stems many, 

 erect, stock woody, joints long ending in two acute trian- 

 gular teeth (leaves ?), flowers in the axils of joint-leaves, 

 fruiting calyx with three wings arching over one larger 

 than the others, seed erect, circular, flattened ; in other 

 respects very like Haloxylon. 



very like the last species, but the leaves are thick, 

 fleshy, nearly cylindric with a bristle, soon falling off, axil 

 of leaves woolly, floral leaves rounded, wings of fruiting 

 calyx 3-5, transparent, circular with the base, heart- 

 shaped. 



perennial, woody, yellowish -green, smooth, parasitic, 

 chiefly on the Rosacese, especially apricots, branches round, 

 jointed ; leaves 1-2 in., oblong or ovate, sessile, flat, leathery 

 blunt ; flowers green, male and female on different plants, 

 clustered in the forks of branches, male |- in. long, calyx 

 lobes not persistent ; berry I in. diam., white, round, 

 glassy ; also see V. artioulatum and V. japonicum under 

 Leafless Plants. 



