Plants of the Punjab. 



85 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Polygonum 

 tortuosum, 



Nidla. 



POLYGONACE^. 



P. B. I. V. 52. 



Himalaya, 

 9-16,500 ft. 

 Lahul. 



small, branches widely separating with nodular 

 joints, smooth, shining, red brown ; leaves 1-2 in. long, 

 pale green, turning red, sessile, leathery, from oblong to 

 round, blunt or acute, stipules tubular, short, ending 

 abruptly ; flowers ^ in. long on very short velvety stalks 

 in dense branching racemes |-1 in. long , calyx lobes oblong, 

 erect ; nut pale, 3-angled, ovate, included in the calyx. 

 The plant is used in Lahul for dyeing cloth a yellow 

 colour. 



Piper 

 brachystachyum, 



see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Euphorbia Nivulia, 



Senhur, thura. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 255. 

 Himalaya to 

 3,000 ft. 



large, smooth, fleshy, branches nearly cylindric in 

 groups of four, juice milky, copious ; leaves 6-12 in., linear, 

 tip rounded, or ovate-oblong with broad and rounded tip, 

 fleshy, smooth, stipules of two prickles on one tubercle, 

 tubercles spirally or vertically arranged ; flowers in clus- 

 ters of three, consisting of bracts with stamens and in the 

 centre a stalked 3-celled capsule often hanging over, styles 

 3-branched ; capsule | in. broad divided, into 8 cells, 

 one smooth seed in each cell. 



Euphorbia 

 antiquorum, 



Tidhara-sehud. 



EUPHORBIACE.E. 



F. B. I. V. 255. 

 The Plains to 

 2.000 ft. 



large, smooth, fleshy, branches cylindric or some- 

 what angled, branchlets with 8 to 5 wavy wings, 

 juice milky ; leaves few, small, on the sides of the wings, 

 the Avings ovate-oblong with broad rounded tips, fleshy, 

 shortly stalked, stipules are 2 thorns ; flowers | in. 

 broad, yellow fringed, in bracteate clusters, outer flowers 

 stalked, inner sessile, bracteoles many, flowers otherwise 

 like the last species ; capsule | in. diameter, cells flattened, 

 smooth. 



Euphorbia Royleana, 



Thor. 



EuPHORBIAOEiE. 



F. B. L V. 257. 

 Salt Range. 

 Himalaya, 

 6,000 ft. 



large, fleshy, smooth, branches straight, erect, 5-7 

 angled, the angles are wavy wings, the branches grow in 

 clusters close to each other giving it the name of Cande- 

 labra tree ; leaves 4-6 in. along the angles of the 

 branches, soon falling off, sessile, broad and rounded, nar- 

 rowing to the base, fleshy, smooth, stipules are 2 prickles ; 

 flowers ^ in. diam., yellow, in sessile axillary clusters, lobes 

 4, broad and round, fringed, flowers otherwise like the 

 previous species of Euphorbia ; capsules f in. diam., 

 8-angled, stalks J-^ in. long. 



