Plants of (he Punjab. 



605 



Climbing Plants with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals ununited. • 



Schizandra 

 grandiflora, 



Magnoliace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 44. 

 The Himalaya, 

 east of the Sutlej, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Simla, Jakii, 

 Matiana, Narkanda 

 (Collett). 



perennial, woody, smooth, branches long, slender, 

 twining ; leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 long-pointed, alternate or clustered, teeth small, distant, 

 rather fleshy, stalks and veins beneath red ; flowers 1 in. 

 diam., white, round, solitary, fragrant, on stalks 1-2 in. 

 long, axillary or in the axih; of scales near ihe base of short 

 lateral leafy branches, sepals 3, petal-hke, petals 6, waxy, 

 white often tinged with pink, ovate, concave, outer mailer, 

 male flowers, stamens 40, small, imited below into a column, 

 female flowers larger, sepals more brightly coloured, ovaries 

 many, minute, sessile on a column, in fruit lengthening to 

 6-9 in. with many round sessile 2-seeded red berries | in. 

 diam. 



Cocculus laurifolius, 



see Trees, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Cocculus villosus, 



Hier, kursan. 



MENISPEEMACEiE. 



F.B.Li. 101. 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. . 

 Giri Valley 

 (Collett). ' 

 Baluchistan 

 (Hughes-Buller). 



perennial, grej^-felted, hairj^; leaves 2-3 in. long, ovate 

 or ovate-oblong, sometimes 3-lobed, hairy, stalk | in. ; 

 flowers minute, male few, narrow in axillary branching 

 racemes, 1-1| in. long, female 1-3, sessile at the end of short 

 axillary stalks, sometimes in racemes, sepals 6, in 2 series, 

 outer smaller, petals 6, smaller than the '^epals, usually 

 auricled, in male flowers stamens clasped by the petals, 

 6, free, anthers 4-lobed, in female flowers staminodes 6, 

 ovaries 3, style simple ; drupes ^ in., dark purple, laterally 

 flattened, stone beautifully moulded. A bluish-purple ink 

 is made from the fruit juice, the roots and leaves are used 

 in medicine as a demulcent, a laxative and an alterative. 



Cocculus Leseba, 



Vallur, farwatti. 



Menispermace^. 



F. B. L i. 102. 



The Plains to 



3,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



The Park, 



Raw^alpindi 



Chakwal (Douie) 



Baluchistan. 



(Lace). 



like the last species, but leaves linear-oblong, mala 

 flowers in sesssile axillary clusters, female 1-3, sessile at 

 the end of short axillary stalks ; the plant is used locally 

 in the treatment of malarial fever. 



