Plants of the Punjab, 



595 



Climbing Plants with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Vitis carnosa, 

 or trifolia, 



Karik, amal-hel, 



Vitace^. 



F. B. I. i. 654. 



The Plains. 



Baluchistan 



(Hughes-Buller). 



Vitis himalayana, 



Phlankur, zemaro, 



VlTACE^. 



F. B. I. i. 655. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Vitis divaricata, 



VlTACBiB. 



F. B. I. i. 657. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla. 



Vitis capriolata, 



VlTACE^. 



F. B. I. i. 659, 



Himalaya, 



4-7,000 ft. 



Simla, the Glen* 



Mashobra, 



on trees and rocks, 



Cardiospermum 

 Halicacabum, 



Lataphatkari. 



Sapindace^. 



F. B. I. i. 670. 



The Plains to 



4,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett), 



perennial, stems slender, fleshy, branches angular, 

 covered when young with velvet ; leaves 2-6 in., with 3 

 leaflets, long-stalked, leaflets 1-3 in,, broadly ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, blunt or pointed, fleshy or almost thin, toothed, 

 almost sessile, stipules oblong, tendrils wiry opposite the 

 leaves, usually branched ; flowers ^ in., greenish -white, 

 shortly stalked on usually axillary 3-5-rayed umbellate 

 clusters, calyx 4-toothed, petals 4, distinct, stamens 4, 

 style distinct ; fruit roundish, black, fleshy, 2-4-seeded' 

 seeds J by ^ in., triangular, wedge-shaped. 



like the last species, but stems woody, leaves larger, 

 lateral leaflets oblique, tendrils absent, flowers larger. 



hke the last species, but stem more slender, cylindric, 

 downy, leaf-stalk longer, 3-4 in., leaves thin, flowers »ed 

 or dark brown in umbellate clusters on woolly stalk-; wilh 

 a forked tendril an inch from the top, petals and stamens 5. 



like the last species, but quite smooth, leaves with 

 5 leaflets, calyx, petals, and sfamens in fours. 



annual, almost smooth, stem slender, grooved ; leaves 

 l|-3 in. triangular or ovate, leaflets or lobes 3, deeply 

 cut, long-pointed, smooth, stalks 2-3 in. long, stipules 

 absent or small, soon falling off; flowers ^ in., white, in 

 axillary racemes, lowest pair of minor stalks formed in- 

 to tendrils, sepals 4, rounded, concave, 2 outer smaller, 

 petals 4, in pairs, rounded, 2 larger lateral, jointed to the 

 sepals, each with a notched scale above the base, 2 smaller 

 lower, remote from the stamens, each wilh a crested scale, 

 stamens 8, style 3-fid ; capsule 3-celled, |-f in. wide, 3- 



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