Plants oj the Punjab . 



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Shrubs with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Dodonaga viscosa, 



Sanaita, mendu, 

 ghuraske. 

 Sapindacejb. 

 F.B.Li. 697. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Salt Range. 

 Hazara (Barrett). 



medium size, evergreen, young leaves and shoots 

 sticky with yellow resinous dots, smooth red branch- 

 lets ; leaves 1^-3 by -^-1 in., lanceolate with a broad tip 

 to linear wedge- shaped, leathery, nearly sessile ; flowers 

 small, yellow, in short terminal racemes, sepals 5, ovate, 

 petals none, stamens usually 8 ; capsule 3-(or 2-4-) celled, 

 valves winged on the back, wings membranous, round, 

 broad, seeds 1-3. This plant forms excellent hedges. 



Bosia Amherstiana, 



Amarantace^. 

 F. B. I.iv. 716. 



Himalaya, 

 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Diktali in Giri 

 VaUey. 



medium size, stout, smooth, branches long, strag- 

 gling ; leaves 3-7 by 1-4 in., ovate, shortly stalked, short 

 pointed, base pointed or rounded, narrowed into the stalk ; 

 flowers ^ in. diam., green with white margins, nearly 

 sessile, crowded in axillary, simple or branched spikes, 

 never longer than the leaves, or in branched terminal 

 racemes, sexes usually separate, sepals 5, rounded, con- 

 cave, stamens 5, bracteoles 2-4 ; berries | in. diam., round, 

 red. 



^rua javanica, 



Doi kalan. 



AMARANTACBiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 727. 

 The Plains. 



small, grey, woolly, stem rounded, 2-3 ft., branched, 

 J in. thick ; leaves 1-4 in., flat or with margins curved 

 down, sessile or narrowed into the stalk, linear or oblong ; 

 flowers j\ in. long, covered with white wool in long spikes, 

 sexes usually separate, sepals 4-5, woolly, stamens 4-5, 

 joined below, alternating with linear staminodes in a cup, 

 styles short or long ; fruit dry, ovoid, surrounded by the 

 sepals, with one seed. 



Eurotia ceratoides, 



CHENOPODIACE^ffi. 

 F. B. I. V. 8. 



Himalaya, 

 8-14,000 ft. 



small, grey with star-shaped hairs ; leaves |-1| in. 

 long, linear-oblong, blunt, floral leaves narrower, margin 

 often curved down ; flowers minute, no petals, fruiting 

 bracts with long red brown silky hairs ^ in. long, stamens 4, 

 sepals 4, in female flowers bracts 4, joined together, stigmas 

 2, seed one. 



Suaeda frutieosa, 

 Shrubby Suaeda, 



Lana, khas],hasa, 

 zamai. 



Chenopodiace^. 

 F. B. I.v. 12. 

 The Plains. 



small, stem and branches slender, the latter many ; 

 leaves |-^ in. long, linear and \ cylindrical, blunt, floral 

 leaves very small, fleshy ; flowers minute on leafy spikes, 

 bracteate and 2 bracteolate, 5-lobed, equal or unequal, 

 stamens 5, short, styles 3, seed coat black; shining. The 

 leaves are used in )phthalmia and used in making coarse 

 soda {sajji). 



