644 



Plants of the Punjab. 



LEAFLESS PLANTS. 

 Shrubs, 



Petals none. 



Anabasis 

 phyllophora, 



Anabasis setif era, 



Calligonum 

 polygonoides, 



\iscum articulatum, 



Pudii, fan. 



LORANTHACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 226. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-6,000 ft., 

 east of the Eavi. 

 S'mla, the Glen 

 (Collett). 

 Chamba. 



Viscum japonicum, 



LiOKANTHACE^. 



F. B. L V. 226. 

 Himalaya, 

 5 7,000 ft. 

 Simla, the Glen 

 (Collett). 

 Matiana. 



Euphorbia Tinicalli, 



Ephedra vulgaris, 

 or gerardiana, 

 var. saxatilis, 

 Avisania, hvdsluir, 

 chewa. 



GNETACEiE. 



F. B. I. V. 640 



&863. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-12,000 ft. 

 Shall (Collett). 



see Shrubs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Shrubs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



perennial, parasitic on trees, such as Cordia vestita, 

 Purus Pashia, Cornus capitata, much branched, green, main 

 stem rounded, branches flat, streaked, furrowed length- 

 wise, contracted at the knots, hanging down, internodes 

 1-2 in. long ; flowers minute, green, clustered at the top 

 of the joints, male and female in the same cluster, sessile, 

 groups of 3, tw^o or several groups at a jomt, male flowers 

 calyx 3 or 4-parted, lobes thick, soon fallmg off, anthers 

 broad, sessile, united to the calyx lobes, female flow^ers, 

 calyx as in the male, stigma sessile ; berry -^-^ in., yellow, 

 smooth, juicy, 1-seeded, sticky. 



like the last species, but parasitic on 0' ercus incana, 

 Ilex dipyrena, Ehus, Olea, Ehododendron, erect, only 6 in, 

 high, branches fleshy, fiat, jointed, joints ^-| in., not groov- 

 ed, calyx lobes persistent, crowning the berry. 



see Shrubs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



small, stiff, smooth, almost erect, branches green, 

 slender, finely grooved, often curved, membraneous sheath- 

 mg scales at the joints take the place of leaves ; fiowers 

 minute in the axils of upper bracts of small cones, bracts 

 united, opposite bracts not margined, lower empty, male 

 and female cones on different plants, male cones sohtaiy 

 or in pairs, more rarely in clusters of 3, flowers 3-4 pairs, 

 calyx short, tubular, thin, flattened, 2-lobed, stamens 

 united, forming a column projecting from the calyx with 

 a top of 5-8 round anthers, female cone sohtary, bracts 

 2-3 pairs, fiowers one or two, the flower is a single sessile 

 erect nalved ovuie of two coats, the inner coat protrude d 

 as a style ; fruit | in. long, ovoid, pink or red, sweet, eclib]( 

 seeds one or two enclosed in the juicy bracts. 



