Plan's of iTie Punjab. 



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Climbing Plants with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



bracts small or minute, male flowers above in the racemes ; 

 shorth" stalked, calyx round, 3-partite, stamens 3, pistii- 

 lode 3 fid, female flowers few, below in the raceme, calyx, 

 lobes 6, overlapping, hairy, in fruit | in. diam., stiff, stel- 

 late^y spreading, oblong, pinnately divided ; capsule ^ in 

 diam,, cocci 3, 2-valved, seeds mottled. The root is used 

 as an alterat ve and diuretic. 



Dioscorea deltoidea, 



Tar, kans. 



DiOSCOREACEiE. 



F. B. I. vi. 291. 



H malaya, 



6-10,000 ft. 



S mla, Narkanda 



(Collett). 



Jaku. 



Dioscorea sativa, 



very like Dioscorea glabra, but leaves alternate, ovate- 

 lanceolate, spikes sol tary, male spikes long, calyx lobes 

 broadly oblong ; for other character^! see Dioscorea glabra 

 under CHmbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Asparagus 

 racemosus, 



see Leafless Plants, Petals None. 



Polygonatum 

 cirrifolium, 



LiLlACBiE. 



F. B. I. vi. 322. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-10,000 ft., 

 east of the Sutlej. 

 Simla, Mat ana, 

 Narkauda (Collett). 



Glorlosa Superba, 



perennial, rootstock thick, creeping, annual stems un- 

 branched, chmbiug by the tendril-like tips of the leaves, 

 upper part zigzag, leafy, a seal-like mark is left on the 

 rhizome when the annual stem comes off, hence the name 

 Solomon's Seal ; leaves in circles of 3-6, 3-5 in. long, linear, 

 narrowed to the tendril-Ike tips, sessile ; flowers ^ in., 

 white, often tinged wi^h green or purple, drooping in axil- 

 lary whorled, short, loose 2-4-flowered racemes ; flower 

 stalks jointed near the top, calyx tubular, 6-lobed, petals 

 none, stamens 6, inserted in the tube, very short, style 

 linear ; berry ^-^ in., round, blue-black, seeds few. 



see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Climbino Plants with Alternate Exstipulate Lobhd Lbavbs. 



Coeculus vlllosus, 

 Coeculus Leseba 



Petals ununited. 

 see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



