Plant"^ of the Punjab. 



593 



Climbing Plants with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Polygonum 

 dumetorum, 



PoLYGONACEiE. 



F. B. I. V. 54. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-9,000 ft. 



annual, stem twining or prostrate, cylindrical ; leaves 

 l|-4 in., broadly ovate, heart-shaped, long-po nied, stipules 

 tubuL;r, short ; flowers minute, green or tinged with pink 

 in short axillary, almost erect racemes, minor flower 

 stalks hair-liki' and recurved, not winged to the base, 

 usually jointed, calyx 5-partite, segment b^unt, enlarging 

 in fruit to 4- in., 3 outer segments bluntly keeled to broadiy 

 winged, calyx in fruit broadly oblong or ovate with a broad 

 top, stamens 8, styles 3, very short ; nut ^ in. long, 3-angled. 



Polygonum 

 pterocarpum, 



Polygonace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 54. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-9.000 ft. 

 Simla, Annandale 

 (Collett). 

 Cherot Nullah. 



very like the ^ast spec'es, but the fruiting calyx is 

 much larger up to | in., or 1| in., segment- more broadly 

 winged, nut ^ in. 



Piper 

 brachystachyum, 



Piperace^. 



F. B. I. V. 87. 



Himalaya, 



2-5.000 ft. 



Valleys below Chota 



Simla (Collett). 



perennial, woody, smooth, rambling, stems very long, 

 scrambling over trees and rocks, swollen and rooting at 

 the joints, branches slender, warted ; leaves, lower leaves 

 1-2 in., circular, pointed, upper 2-5 by 1-2 in., ovate, long- 

 pointed, narrowed to the base, stipules various ; flowers 

 minute, purple in the axil of a very small bract, crowded 

 on catkin-like spikes, male and female flowers on separate 

 plants, male spikes 2-3 in., slender, drooping, calyx none' 

 petals none, stamens 2, female spikes | in. long, ovoia, 

 stigmas 3, sessile, spreading, fruiting spike round ; berries 

 -j^ in. diam., ciowded, 1-seeded. 



Ficus foveolata, 



Nagar jaman, grelu. 

 Urticace.s:. 

 F. B. I. V. 528. 

 Himalaya, 

 2-7,000 ft. 

 Simja, the Glen, 

 Elysium (Collett). 

 Valleys below 

 Kasumpti. 

 (ihamba. 



perennal, woody, stems, when creeping and prostrate 

 ovo • rocks or tree trunks, rooting at the nodes, velvety or 

 hairy, in shady and damp places, when climbing in open 

 ground, not rooting and smooth ; leaves on creeping stems, 

 2 in., thin, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate on niiting 

 branches and in the open, 3-6 in., leathery, base rounded, 

 notched or wedge-shaped, tip often long-pointed, stalks \ 

 in., velvety, stipules \ in., in pairs, hairy ; figs \-\ in. diam., 

 round, depressed above, solitary, axillary, shortly stacked, 

 often warly and wrinkled, basal bracts 3, ovate, short- 

 pointed, often reflexed. 



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