Plants of the Punjab. 



129 



Shrubs with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Tricholepis tibetica, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B.I. iii. 382. 

 Northern Kashmir, 

 8-12,000 ft. 



Solanum dulcamara, 



Solanum indicum, 



Kandyari. 



SOLANACB^. 



F. B. I. iv. 234. 



The Plains to 



5,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Solanum Melongena, 

 The Egg-plant, 



Brinjal, hengan. 

 Solanace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 235. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 



Solanum coagulans, 



Bari mauliari, tingi. 



SOLANACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 236. 

 The Plains. 



small, branches clustered above, slender, twiggy, 

 ending in a stiff flower stalk with a small erect head ; 

 leaves 1-3 in. long, sessile, leathery, very narrow, blunt, 

 lobed, upper |-1 by ~-l in., ovate, linear, margin not 

 lobed ; flowers scarlet, in heads |-f in. diam., bracts round 

 heads, outer ovate, needle-pointed, inner lanceolate, needle- 

 pointed, ^ in. long, corollas ^ in. long ; fruit (achenes) 

 I in. long, rather ribbed, a brush of hairs on top of each 

 achene, ^ in. long. 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



small, branches many, very prickly, prickles stout, 

 flattened, often recurved ; leaves 3-6 by 1-4 in., ovate, 

 lobed, star-shaped hairs above, woolly beneath, nerves 

 prickly, stalks 1 in. long ; flowers |-1 in. diam., in lateral 

 woolly racemes, calyx 5 lobed, ^ in., triangular, very woolly, 

 corolla lobes 5, broad, triangular, woolly without, stamens 

 5, forming a cone ; berry yellow, ^ in. diam., round, smooth, 

 protruding beyond the calyx lobes, seeds ^ in. diam., dis- 

 coid. The root is said to be aphrodisiac. 



small, prickly or unarmed ; leaves 3-6 by 2-4 in., 

 stalk 1 in., ovate lobed, star-shaped hairs beneath ; flowers 

 blue, 1-1 J in. diam., in short small clusters, calyx lobes 

 |-| in., oblong, linear, corolla shortly lobed, stamens 5, 

 forming a cone, berry 1-9 in., purple green, seeds very 

 many, discoid. Generally cultivated. 



very like the last species, but the berry is only 1 in. 

 diam., and yellow. The fruit is sometimes eaten fresh 

 or pickled; 



Nannorhops 

 Ritchiana, 

 Dwarf Palm, 



Mazri, kilu. 

 Palmace^. 

 F.B.I, vi. 429. 

 N.-W. Frontier 

 Province. 

 Salt Eange to 

 3,000 ft. 



large, stem 8-10 ft. high, 4 in. diam. ; leaves 2-3 ft, 

 in diam., round, split into segments, stalk 6-12 in., mar- 

 gins toothed, sheathing ; flowers small on a spike (spadix) 

 with branches and branchlets forming a pyramid 2-3 ft. 

 long, flowers in pairs, one sessile, the other stalked, con- 

 tained in a small spatho (sheathing bract), the whole 

 pyramid contained in a large spathe, sepals and petals 

 3 each, stamens 3 or 6 ; drupe round, size of a pea to a 

 bullet, one-seeded. The leaves are made into matting, 

 baskets and cordage. 



