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Plants of (he "Punjab. 



Climb ng Plants with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Porana racemosa, 

 Snowcreeper, 



CoNVOLVULACE-ffi). 



F. B. I. iv. 222. 



Himalaya, 



2-6.000'fK 



Hafhni Kund on 



the Jumna. 



Koti. 



Planted at Lahore 



in the Lawrence 



Gardens. 



« 

 Solanum Dulcamara, 



Deeringia 

 celosioides, 



Amarantace^, 

 F. B. I. iv. 714. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Koti. 



^rua scandens, 



Basella rubra. 



Poi. 



Chenopodiace^. 

 F. B. L V. 20. 

 The Plans. 



Tragia involvucrata, 



Park cm a. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 465. 

 The Plains. 



Petals united. 



like the last species, byit almost smooth, flowers deeply 

 lobed, larger, in long racemes, calyx lobes all enlarged in 

 frut. 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Petals none. 



perennial, branches long, arching, rambling : leaves 

 2-5 in., ovate or broadly lanceolate, stalked, long-pointed ; 

 flowers ^ in. diam., greenish-white in long branching com- 

 pound racemes, calyx 5-parted, green, segments ovate, 

 concave, spreading or reflexed, stamens 5, united below, 

 style short, 3-parted ; berry I in. diam., red, round, on the 

 persistent calyx, seeds 3. 



see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



annual, smooth, fleshy, twinmg, much branched ; leaves 

 2-7 in. diam.. broadly ovate, or heart-shaped, or circular, 

 narrowed into the stalk, entire ; flowers mnute. red or 

 white, sessle on axillary stalked, simple or branched spikes, 

 1-6 in. long, bracts mnute, soon fal'ing off, bracteoles 2, 

 form ng a cup united to the calyx, calyx 5-fid. fleshy, 

 lobes short, mcurved, stamens 5. on the tube mouth stig- 

 mas 3 : fruit a berry, red, white or black, fomed from the 

 ca yx lobes containing the round utrcle, th'n. Cultivat- 

 ed as a pot herb, a'so used medicinally as demulcent and 

 d'uretic. 



perennial, evergreen, fw'ning, ha"ry or felted with 

 st'nginfr bristles ; leaves 1-4 in., very varied in form, rom 

 1 near-oblong to broadly ovate-heart-shaped, long-pointed, 

 toothed, and from entre to deeply 3 fid or 3-partite with 

 toothed almost pinnate lobes ; flowers minute (male 

 and i-emale flowers separate, but in the same plant) in ter- 

 minal axillary and leaf opposed racemes, 1-2 in., slender. 



