. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Calligonum] LXXXVII. POLYGONACE^ 521 Bakiclii&tan. Dry and arid districts of North Western India on both sides of the Indus, north as far as Lahore, and east to Bikanir. Abundant and often gregarious. The young shoots come out , soon afterwards the shrub is covered with pinkish filling the air with a strong pleasant odour. Fr. June. The fl. are swept up and eaten, cooked. I adhere to the view" of my old Forest Flora, p.
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Calligonum] LXXXVII. POLYGONACE^ 521 Bakiclii&tan. Dry and arid districts of North Western India on both sides of the Indus, north as far as Lahore, and east to Bikanir. Abundant and often gregarious. The young shoots come out , soon afterwards the shrub is covered with pinkish filling the air with a strong pleasant odour. Fr. June. The fl. are swept up and eaten, cooked. I adhere to the view" of my old Forest Flora, p. 372, that C. comosum is not distinct. Accordingly this species has a wide distribu- tion outside India from Algeria to Afghanis- tan. Pteropyrum Olivieri, Jaub. et Spach, Sind, Baluchistan, Persia. A rigid much branched shrub, 1. fascicled, thick, glaucous, from spathu- late to linear, nerveless, J-| in. long. Fl. small, in many-fid. clusters, sepals 5, in fruit not much enlarged, the inner erect and appressed to the nut, alternating wdth its wings, the 2 outer reflexed. Nut wdth 6 broad wings in two tiers, thos3 of the lower tier larger. P. Aucheri, Jaub. et Spach, Northern Baluchistan (Aitchison) Western Asia, supposed to be dis- tinguished by narrow linear 1., probably is not distinct. Rumex hastatus, Don ; Collefct Simla Fl. 428 fig. 136. Vern. Khatimhal, Haz. Outer ranges of the North West Himalaya, mostly on dry slopes ascending to 8,000 ft. Afghanistan. An undershrub with a stout woody rootstalk, sometimes a shrub, branches numerous, slender. L. triangular or hastately 3-lobed, the lobes narrow, almost linear, blade J-IJ in. long. pet. as long as or longer than blade. Fruiting sepals orbicular, pink, prominently Fig. 176. Calligonum polygon- oides, Linn. J. Oeder LXXXVIII. ARISTOLOCHIACE^. Gen. PI. iii. 121. Herbs or shrubs, often climbing, 1. alternate, entire or 3--5-lobed, stipules 0. Fl. bisexual, often large. Perianth superior, regular or zygomorphic,
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