Plants of the Punjab. 



609 



Climbing PLANts with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Embelia Ribes, 



Babrung. 



MYRSINACEiB. 



F. B. I. iii. 513. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 



perennial; leaves 3 by 1| in., narrowed at both ends, 

 entire, smooth, long-pointed, base wedge-shaped, stalk 

 \ in. ; flowers -^^ in., white, in grey velvety branch- 

 ing terminal and axillary racemes, minor flower stalks 

 longer than the flowers, calyx 5-lobed, persistent, petals 5, 

 overlapping in bud, stamens 5 ; fruit small, round, one, 

 rarely two-seeded. The powdered seeds form an excellent 

 anthelmintic. 



Ipomaea Bona-Nox, 

 Moon flower, 



CoNVOLVULACEiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 197. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 



Cultivated, from 

 Tropical America. 



annual, smooth or rough with projections, tw'ning ; 

 'eaves 3-8 in., heart-shaped, ovate, short-pointed, smooth, 

 entire, or angular, or lobed, stalk 3-6 in. long ; flowers 

 3 by 3-5 in., white, fragrant on 1-5-flowered stalks, 2-6 in. 

 long, bracts soon falling off, calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes 

 \ in., ovate, blunt or short-pomted, corolla funnel-shaped, 

 tube 3 by J in., corolla mouth w th lobes 3-5 in. across, 

 lobes shallow, 5 plaits, stamens 5 on the corolla just pro- 

 truding, style thread-like, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule 1 in., 

 ovoid-oblong, narrowed upwards, seeds 4, smooih. 



Ipomaea muricata, 



CoNVOLVULACEiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 197. 

 H malaya, 

 1-5,000 "ft. 

 Kangra. 



like the last species, but a weaker plant usually rough 

 with projections, leaves 2-4 in., flowers much smaller, 

 corolla tube 1 2 by ^ in., flower stalk much thickened in 

 fruit. 



Ipomsea purpurea, 



CONVOLVULACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 200. 



The Plains to 



7,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Cultivated. 



like the last species, but hairy, leaves a little larger, 

 flowers pink, corolla tube short, capsule \ in., 8-celled 

 6-4-seeded. 



Ipomsea barlerioides, Hke the last species, but leaves ovate-oblong, stalk 



CoNvoLVULACE^. short or none, flowers solilary, larger, purple, or purplish 

 F. B. I. iv. 201. white, capsule | in., 2-celled. 



The P ains to 

 4,000 ft, 



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