Plants of (he Punjab. 



87 



Shbubs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Ficus palmata, 



Boehmeria 

 platyphylla, 



Pouzolzia viminea, 



Urticace^. 

 p. B. I. V. 581. 

 Himalaya to 

 5,000 ft. 



Villebrunea 

 frutescens, 



Urticacb^. 

 F. B. I. V. 590. 

 Valleys below Simla 

 (Collett). 



Debregeasia 

 hypoleuca, 



Puruni, siaru. 



Urticace^. 



F. B. I. V. 591. 



Salt Eange. 



Himalaya, 3-5,000 ft. 



Simla, Mahasu 



(Collett). 



Kotzi, Murree Hills 



(Douie). 



Quercus Ilex, 



Balut, kharanja. 



CUPULIFBR^. 



F. B. I. V. 602. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-8,500 ft. 



Petals none. 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



see Shrubs, Opposite, Stipulate, Simple. 



large, bark rough, grey, thin, stringy, branches slender, 

 branchlets velvety or with hairs, stiff, and lying in lines ; 

 leaves |-5 by i-l|in., oblong or lanceolate, toothed, long- 

 pointed, smooth or slightly hairy above, hairy, grey- 

 felted beneath, base 3-nerved, stalk |-2 in, long ; flowers 

 in sessile dense axillary rounded clusters, in males calyx 

 3-5-lobed, stamens 4, in females calyx tubular, 3-5-lobed, 

 style slender ; achenes enclosed in the calyx, angled and 

 margined. 



large, bark dark grey, rough, branches very slender, 

 slightly velvety ; leaves 2-8 by 1-4 in., ovate, with long 

 tail-like point, minutely toothed except at base, 3-nerved 

 at base, rough above, pale or white-felted below, stalks 

 slender, |-4 in. long, stipules | in., lanceolate, velvety ; 

 flowers, male and female, crowded in bracteolate, small, 

 sessile, or nearly sessile clusters in axils of previous year's 

 leaves, in males calyx 4-5-fid, stamens 4-5, in females 

 calyx ovoid, narrowed to a minute mouth, stigma linear ; 

 achenes many, black, minute, partially inserted in a white 

 juicy mass of the calyx and bracteoles. This plant 

 yields a strong fibre. 



large, bark thin, dark grey, branches white, woolly ; 

 leaves narrow, 3-6 by |-1|: in., linear-lanceolate, long- 

 pointed, toothed, bases 3-nerved, rough above, white 

 woolly beneath, stalks -j-i-^ in., stipules divided ; flowers, 

 male and female, in rounded, sessile, axillary heads, 

 bracteolate, in males sepals 4, shorter than the bracteoles, 

 stamens 3-5, in females calyx fleshy, ovoid, mouth con- 

 tracted, minute ; fruit yellow, | in. diam., fleshy, dotted 

 with the minute achenes. This plant yields a strong fibre. 



large, shoots stellately velvety ; leaves 1-8 in., 

 very leathery, oblong or orbicular, margin smooth or 

 spinous-toothed, velvety above when young, woolly or 

 very velvety beneath, or smooth when old, nearly sessile, 

 stipules soon falling off ; flowers minute, in slender short 

 clustered spikes, males in pendulous spikes, calyx bell- 

 shaped, 4-7-lobed, stamens 6-12, females in erect spikes, 



