Plant"; of ihe Punjab. 



611 



Climbing Plants with Alternate Exstipulatb Simple Leaves, 



Ipomaea Turpethum, 



Chita hansa. 

 Convolvulace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 212, 

 The Plains to 

 8,000 ft. 



Ipomaea pilosa, 



Convolvulace^. 



F. B. I. iv. 213, 



The Plains to 



3,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla. 



Subathu (CoUett), 



Koti. 



Calystegia hederacea, 



Convolvulus 

 glomeratus, 

 var. volubilis, 

 Convolvulace^, 

 F. B. I. iv. 209, 

 The Plains. 



Convolvulus 

 arvensis, 

 Lesser Bindweed, 



Hiranfaddi. 



CONVOLVULACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 219. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Lahore, Delhi, 

 Eawalpindi. 



Porana paniculata, 



CoNVOLVULACEiE. 



F. B. L iv. 222. 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. 



Petals united, 



like the last species, but stem stouter, square, winged, 

 flattened or almost round, leaves larger, ovate or oblong, 

 flowers in few-flowered clusters, capsule much larger, 

 seeds smooth. The bark of the root, turhud, is superior 

 to jalap without the nauseous taste of the latter. 



hke the last species, but hairy, leaves broadly ovate, 

 often 3-lobed, white, woolly beneath, corolla small, purple, 

 capsule smaller. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



stems distinctly twining ; leaves and heads larger than 

 Convolvulus glomeratus, to which refer under Herbs, Erect, 

 Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, Entire^ 



annual, smooth or almost velvety, stems twining, some- 

 times prostrate ; leaves 1-3 in., ovate-heart-shaped, base 

 lobed or forked, stalk ^-f in. ; flowers f-1 by 1 in., purple 

 with white or yellowish centre, sohtary or 2-3 on an axil- 

 lary stalk, bracts small, calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes ovate, 

 blunt, corolla tube very hort, mouth wide, funnel-shaped, 

 almost 5-lobed, folding at the angles, stamens 5 on the 

 corolla tube at the base, unequal, style single, dividing 

 into 2 short linear stigmas ; capsule |-^ in., 4-valved, 

 smooth, seeds 4. A common weed of cultivation. The 

 root, hiranpaddi, is used as a substitute for jalap. 



perennial, lofty twining chmber, densely softly felted' 

 branches long, drooping ; leaves 3-5 by 2-3 in., ovate, heart* 

 shaped, stalked, entire, long-pointed, velvety above, fel" 

 ted beneath ; flowers ^-| in., white, crowded in terminal 

 drooping branch "ng racemes, bracts per^i-'tent, ca'yx 

 lobes 5, Vy "1-' '^ enlargirifT in rnit. condla liell-shajied, 

 very shortly lobed, smooth, stamens 5, rstyle very short, 

 stigma barely 2-l()bed : capsule i in. diam., round, hairy, 

 3 enlarged calyx lobes, | by ^ in., blunt, velvety, 2 other 

 lobes I in.., linear, seed one. 



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