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Plants of the Punjab. 



Climbing Plants with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Stephania elegans, 



Menispermace^. 



p. B. I. i. 103. 



Himalaya, 



east of the Sutlej, 



6-7,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Stephania rotunda, 



MENISPERMACEiE. 



P. B. I. i. 103.^ 

 The Plains to 

 6,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 

 (Collett). 



perennial, smooth, branches angled, slender ; leaves 

 2|-4 by l-2i in., triangular-ovate, entire, short-pointed, 

 base rounded, pale beneath, stalk from the middle of 

 the blade ; flowers ^^^ in., purple, in axillary umbels, sohtary 

 or several in a long-stalked cluster, male flowers sepals 6, 

 long-pointed, petals 3, thick fleshy ovate with a broad 

 tip, stamens 6, united into a column, anthers round the 

 dilated top, female flowers sepals 3, petals 3, style 3- 

 branched ; drupe small, red, smooth, round, stone flatten- 

 ed, horse shoe-shaped, sides hollow, perforated. 



like the last species, but roots tuberous, leaves round, 

 flowers yellow. 



Cissampelos Pareira, 



Dakli nirbisi, katori, 



MENISPERMACEiE. 



p. B. I. i. 108, 



The Plams to 



6,000 ft. 



Vallevs below Simla 



(Collett), 



perennial, velvety or felted ; leaves 1-4 m. across, 

 circular or broadl}' ovate, stalk long, attached to the under 

 surface of the blade ; flowers small, male flower in stalked 

 branched axillary clusters or on long axillary stalks, each 

 cluster in the axil of a small leaf-Uke bract, sepals 4, hairy, 

 ovate, spreading, petals united in a 4-lobed cup, stamens 4, 

 united in a short column, anthers round the margin of the 

 summit, female flowers crowded in long axillary racemes 

 in the axils of round bracts, sepal 1, velvety, broadly ovate, 

 petal 1, opposite the sepal, smaller, deeply lobed, style 

 3-fid ; drupe ^ in., scarlet, hairy, round. The bark and 

 leaves are used in medicine, the root, kaiori, however, is 

 more esteemed, being used as a demulcent, diuretic and 

 tonic. 



Mserua arenaria, 



Capparidace^. 

 p. B.Li. 171. 

 The Plains to 

 2,000 ft. 

 The Park, 

 Eawalpindi, Delhi, 



perennial, woody, smooth or velvety ; leaves |-3 in., 

 broadly ovate, short-pomted, blunt or notched ; flowers 

 f -1 in. long, white, in terminal clusters or on lateral shoots, 

 calyx funnel-shaped, lobes 4, valvate, petals 4, lanceolate, 

 short-pointed, ^mailer than the calyx lobes, stamens 

 many, protruding, placed upon the column bearing the 

 ovary ; berry 2-5 in. long, fleshy, deeply contracted between 

 the 2 seeds. 



Celastius paniculata, see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



