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Plants of the Punjab. 



Climbing Plants with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



yellow, finally red, pollen orange, style long, linear bent 

 up at the base, green then red, tip 3-branched ; capsule 

 l-|-2 in., oblong, blunt, seeds many, round. The root is 

 supposed by Indians to be a powerful drug, and poisonous, 

 it is used as an ecboHc, but the only medicinal pro- 

 perties it possesses are stomachic and tonic. 



Climbing Plants with Opposite Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Pergularia minor. 



see Chmbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Climbing Plants with Opposite Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Jasminum 

 dispermum, 



Cleace^. 



F. B. L iii. 602. 



Himalaya, 



2-8,000 ft. 



Simla, Lansdowne 



Falls 



(CoUett). 



Kiari Dak 



Bungalow. 



perennial, smooth, branches long ; leaves 4-6 in., 

 leaflets 3-5, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, 

 end one 2-4 in., largest ; flowers f-1 in., white, in crowded 

 axillary clusters or terminal branching racemes, leaflike 

 bracts I in., real bracts J^ in., calyx tube short, teeth 5, 

 short, corolla salver-shaped, tube | in. clyindric, lobes 5, 

 ^ by ^ in., broad narrowed to both ends, stamens 2, short, 

 included in the tube, style slender, stigma almost 2-lobed ; 

 berry 2-lobed, sometimes simple, seeds 2 or 1. 



Jasminum officinale, 



see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Compound. 



Jasminum 

 grandiflorum, 



Clematis montana, 



Ghantiali. 

 Eanunculace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 2. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-12,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Bagi. 



see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Compound. 



Petals none. 



perennial, woody, smooth or silky, stem round, chmbing 

 by its leaflets ; leaves with 3 leaflets, stalked, clustered 

 at the node ', leaflets ovate, toothed or deeply divided ; 

 flowers 2-3 in. diam., white, often scented, sohtary on stalks 

 longer ihan the leaves, sepals 4, oblong, flat, spreading, 

 tip lounded, smooth or silky outside, petals none, stamens 

 many, smooth ; fruit is a head of almost sessile achenes, 

 styles persist as long feathery tails. 



