Tamaricaceae Link.

Tamarix alii Qaiser

A woody shrub with reddish brown bark. Leaves scale like, vaginate with a short spine. Flowers pink in terminal clustera. Vern. Lai or Lawi.

Tamarix dioica Roxb. ex. Roth.

Tall woody, shrub to small tree with reddish bark, plant dioecious. Leaves vaginate abruptly acuminate. Flowers male and female and borne on separate plants. Flowers purplish in dense spikes. Vern. Lawi or Lai.

Tiliaceae Juss.

Corchorus depressus (L.) Stocks.

A common small mat forming, much branched, woody herb. Leaves crenate, elliplical to broad elliptical. Flowers yellow. Fruit capsule, oblong, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved. Seeds many grey-black, ± triangular.

Vern. Mundiari or Mundhiri or Bhophali.

Corchorus tridens L.

Prostrate to erect herb. Leaf simple, oblong-lanceolate. Linear-lanceolate, sometimes elliptic ovate. Flowers axillary yellow. Fruit capsule. 1 - 3 together, cylindrical, seed black angular, obliquely truncate at ends. Vern. Bhaindri or Kawavatorai.

Verbenaceae Joumest-hil.

Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene

Prostrate herb forming mat-like structure on the ground, rooting at nodes. Leaves simple, oblanceolate, obovate-spathulate, serate. Flower tiny pink or pinkish-white in compact spikes. like in cones. Fruit ovate, enclosed in persistent calyx. Seed 1 in pyrenes.