Plants of the Punjab. 



643 



Tamarix articulata 



Casuarina 

 equisetifolia, 



Casuarinace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 598. 

 The Plains, planted. 



Capparis aphylla, 

 Tamarix gallica, 

 Tamarix salina, 

 Tamarix dioica, 



Periploca aphylla, 

 Periploca hydaspidis, 



ASCLEPIADECE^. 



P. B. I. iv. 12. 



The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



LEAFLESS PLANTS. 



Trees. 



see Trees, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



large, wood reddish, bark fibrous, stripping in long 

 pieces, branches drooping, branchlets thread-like, cylin- 

 dric, almost 6-8-angled, grooved, falling in whiter, jointed, 

 internodes | in., ending in a sheath of 6-8 imited, awl- 

 shaped scales (leaves ?) ; flowers minute, male and female 

 on the same or different trees, male flowers in superposed 

 cups in terminal cylindric or almost clubbed spikes, | in. 

 long, sepals 1 or 2, concave, stamen 1, anther large, female 

 flowers in ovoid or round heads, bracteate or 2-bracteolate, 

 style 2-fid ; fruit f in. diam., of hardened bracts, oblong- 

 ovate with a broad tip, 12 rows of achenes winged, wing 

 terminal, tipped by the style. 



Shrubs. 

 Petals ununited. 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 

 see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Petals united. 



see Shrubs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



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perennial, smooth, twining, branches wiry, tortuous, 

 in. thick, sometimes clustered ; leaves (if any) |-^ in., 



Leptadenta Spartium, 



Orthanthera 

 viminea, 



opposite, linear, thick, just pointed ; flowers | in. diam., 

 yellow, in loose terminal or axillary clusters |-1 in. across, 

 often opposite, very many, stalk thick, erect, bracts soon 

 falhrg . i<, calyx 5-lobed, lobes quite smooth, overlapping, 

 rounded, corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5, oblong, blunt, 

 velvety within, smooth without, mouth with a 10-lobed 

 (corona) ring with 5 awl-shaped hairy processes, stamens 5, 

 ununited, broad, short, flat, anthers bearded, touching over 

 the stigma, stigma convex ; follicles 2, cylindric, smooth, 

 seeds flattened, ovoid, winged with a tuft of hairs (coma). 



see Shrubs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Shrubs,. Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simplo, 



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