Ephedra alata Hindi Bandukai, Lastuk,Nangurwal A large shura 6-8 feet, with spreading erect branches, leaves worled, branchlets hispid, sheath joints bifid, neuminate, inalecatkins, clustered, sessile or stalked, femaile solitary, fruit vopid.
Common in the plains of Punjab and Sindh, In the salt range scending 2,500 ft nd also on the hills and plaiins of Baluchistan,Afghanistan and Iran, used for snuff in Khyber Pass. The branches and flowers are considered stypie and the fruit is said to be mucilaginous, edible,subacid and slighty pungent. <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IHAI9S2w8Wc/T7SGL-Z9c1I/AAAAAAAAA50/PDrcNK31f9U/s1600/Ephedra+alata.JPG> Source Plants a nd Drugs of Sindh by James Murray Printed 1881
