808 



Plan's of the Punjab. 



Climbing Plants with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Smilax aspera, 



LlLIACE.^. 



F, B. I. vi. 306. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-7000 'ft/ 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Petals ununited. 



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like the last species, but branches grooved, more 

 or less prickly, leaves usually mottled, marg ns, nerves, 

 and stalks sometimes prickly, tendrils long, flowers sweet- 

 scented, bracts minute, berries red at first, then blue- 

 black. 



Petals united. 



Cissampelos Paieira, see Chmbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Petals ununited. 



Tricosanthes dioica, 



PaJwal. 



Cucurbitaceje.'J 

 E. B. I. ii. 609. " 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. 



annual, stems rough, woolly, slender, climbing by 

 lateral 2-fid tendrils ; leaves 3 iDy 2 in., ovate-oblong, 

 hollow at the base, gap-toothed, not lobed, stiff, rough 

 on both sides, stalk | in ; flowers l|-3 in white, male and 

 female on different plants, male flowers not racemed, 

 woolly outside, calyx tube If in., narrow, teeth 5, hnear- 

 erect, corolla 5-fid nearly to the base, lobes long-fringed, 

 stamens 3, anthers free, long-linear, female flower solitary 

 calyx and corolla as in the male ; fruit 2-3| in., orange-ied 

 when ripe, oblong, pointed, smooth, seeds |-| in., manj^ 

 flattened, corrugate on the margin. Cultivated for its 

 fruit which is cooked as a vegetable ; the root, leaves and 

 juice of the fruit are used as a purgative, bitter tonic and 

 febrifuge. 



Herpetospermum 

 caudigerum, 



see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Gephalandra or 

 Coccinia indlca, 



see Chmbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Codonopsis 

 rotundifolia, 



Campanulace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 432. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-11,000 ft. 



perennial, twining, root tuberous ; leaves 2 by | in., 

 linear or ovate from a rounded base, toothed, shghtly 

 hairy or smooth, stalk | in. ; flowers f-lj by f in., purple 

 or bright grey blue on solitary stalks 1-6 in., axilla- y, ter- 

 minal, calyx-lobes 5, | by l-^ in., often toothed, corolla 

 widely bell-shaped, shortly 5-lobed, stamens 5, free, style 

 cylindric, stigma 3-lobed ; capsule |-f in. broad, beak J 

 in., fleshy, then dry, seeds j\r in., very many, netted, shghtly 

 flattened, brown. 



