32 BEBBEEIBEJS. [Beebeeis. 



recurved valves. Ovary simple. Stigma peltate, sessile or on a short 

 style. Ovules few, basal, erect. Fruit a berry. Seeds few. 



Leaves narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, not 

 lacunose 1. 5. Lyciv/m. 



Leaves obovate or orbicular, lacunose and 

 strongly reticulate "beneath . . . . 2. JB. asiatica. 



1, B. Lycium, Boyle III. 64 ; Hh. f. Sf T. 225 ; F. B. I. i. 110 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 12 ; Watt E.D. Vern. Chatroi, (Kashmal). 



A rigid erect spinous shrub, 6-8 ft. high, bark white. Leaves l-foliolate ; 

 leaflets li-2| in. long, nearly sessile, fasciculate, subpersistent, coria- 

 ceous, narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate,niueronate, entire or spinuloes, 

 not lacunose, bright green above, glaucous beneath and with prominent 

 lax reticulate veins. Flowers small, pale yellow, on elongate racemes. 

 Berries ovoid, violet. Style distinct. Stigma capitate. 



Dehra Dun. Distbib. : W. Himalaya from Hazara to Nepal, up to 

 9,000 ft. usually easily recognizable, but some of its forms might be 

 mistaken for B. aristata, and others resemble B. asiatica. Flowers in 

 April, fruit ripens in June. An extract called ' rasaut,' prepared from 

 the wood, is much valued medicinally in ophthalmic cases. 



2. B. asiatica, Roxh. in DC. Syst. II, 18 ; Fl. Ind. ii, 182 ; HTc. f. & T. 

 Fl. Ind. 224 ; F.B.I, i, 110 ; Brand. For. Fl. 12 ; Watt E.D.—Yevn. Eingora 

 (Dehra Dun and Garhwal). 



A stout erect spinous shrub up to 6 ft. high ; bark pale. Leaves 

 l-foliolate ;ZeajIetsiu fascicles, 1-3 in. long, obovate or orbicular, sub- 

 entire or with large distant spinescent teeth, rigidly coriaceous, whitish 

 beneath and with strong reticulate venation, lacunose between the veins. 

 Floivers in short corymbose racemes, rather small ; glands of nectary 

 subcylindrie. Berry large ^ ovoid or subglobose. red or black, glaucous. 

 Style distinct. Stigma capitate. 



Dehra Dun. Distbib. ; Outer Himalaya from Garhwal to Bhutan ; 

 Parasnath ; Afghanistan. Flowers Feb. -April, fruit May and June. 

 Medicinal properties similar to those of B. Lycium. The berries are 

 eaten. 



VI.-NYMPHJEACEJE. 



Aquatic perennial herbs. Leaves usually floating, often peltate, 

 margins involute in vernation. Scapes 1-fld, naked. Floral 

 envelopes all free, hypogynous or adnate to a fleshy disk that 

 surrounds or envelops the carpels. Sepals 3-5. Petals 3-5 or 

 many. Stamens many. Carpels 3 or more, in one whorl, free or 

 connate or irregularly sunk iu pits of the disk; stigmas as many as 

 the cai-pels, peltate or decurrent ; ovules few or many, scattered 



