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Plants of the Punjab. 



Sheubs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Phyllanthus 

 parvifolius, 



EuPHORBIACE-aS. 



F. B. I. V. 294. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-6,000 ft. 

 Naldera, Theog 

 (Collett). 



Phyllanthus simplex, 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 295. 

 The Plains 

 to 5,000 ft. 

 Valleys below Simla 

 (Collett). 



Baliospermum 

 axillare, 



Dant hakun. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B.I. V. 461. 

 Himalaya, 2-3,00 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Plecospermum 

 spinosum, 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 491. 



Salt Eange and 

 Himalaya to 

 3,000 ft. 



Ficus clavata, 



Urticace^. 

 p. B. I. V. 520. 

 Himalaya to 

 4, 500 ft. 

 Basantpur (Collett). 



small, bark pale, foliage feathery, branchlets look like 

 pinnate leaves ; leaves j-^ in., in two rows, sessile, oblong, 

 base narrow, tip rounded, pale below, stipules triangular, 

 very minute, slender, tapering to a point ; flowers, male 

 and female, minute, ^-^ in., brown purple, stalked, solitary, 

 axillary, sepals 6, oblong, blunt in males, stamens 3, rarely 

 5, in females styles 3 ; capsule | in. diam., round, some- 

 what lobed, with a hard and brittle smooth shell, seeds 

 minutely marked with brown, smooth mottling. 



small, branches slender, flattened ; leaves ^-1 in., linear, 

 oblong, in two rows, rather leathery, pale below, nearly 

 sessile, stipules target-shaped, with wedge-shaped lobes 

 at the base, fringed or smooth ; flowers, male and female, 

 minute, J^ in., brov/n purple, often 3 together, sepals 6, 

 in males broadly oblong, stamens 3, in females styles 3, 

 reflexed ; capsule y\y in., indented, round, smooth, with a 

 hard and brittle shell, seeds rough with minute processes. 



medium size, stem stout, branching from the base, 

 nearly smooth ; leaves, upper 2-3 in., small, lanceolate, 

 lower 6-12 in., large, oblong, ovate or rounded, sinuate, 

 toothed or 5-lobed, stalk thick, of upper leaves short, of 

 lower as long as the blade, stipules of 2 glandular pro- 

 cesses ; flowers, male and female, in many axillary racemes, 

 small, in males sepals 4-6, orbicular, stamens 10-30, in 

 females sepals 5-6, lanceolate, styles 3, 2-fid ; capsule |-| in. 

 long, of three 2-valved cells, seeds oblong, smooth, mot- 

 tled. The oils from the seeds and the powdered seeds are 

 used in Indian medicine as a drastic purgative. 



large, bark smooth, yellowish-brown, spines axillary, 

 straight, thick ; leaves 2-3 in. long, oblong with rounded 

 ends or tip broad, blunt or short-pointed, margin smooth, 

 surfaces smooth, stipules minute, stalk short. |-| in.; flowers, 

 male and female, in axillary stalked round heads, solitary 

 or 2 or 3 together, male heads | in. diam., bracteolate, 

 sepals 4, concave, blunt, stamens 4, female heads | in. 

 diam., sepals 4, fleshy ; fruit 1- to 2-seeded, lobed ; berry ^ 

 in. diam., velvety. 



large, shoots rough ; leaves 4-8 in. long, oblong, 

 long-pointed, smooth, toothed, stalks 4-^ in., stipules 

 ^ in., lanceolate ; fruit a fig, round with a knob, or ovoid 

 and broad at the top, ^ in. diam., surface uneven, axillary, 

 solitary, stalk ^ in. long. 



