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• \ . . 1. RHUS, Linn. 



... Trees or sHmbs, with often an acrid juice. Leaves alternate, simple or 1-3- 

 foliolate or pinnate ; leaflets quite entire or serrate. Floicers small, in terminal 

 pd axillary panicles, polygamous. Calyx small, 4-6-parted, persistent; eeg- 

 ,,^^^^3 nearly ecjual, imbricate. Petah 4-6, equal, spreading, imbricate. Stamem 

 %o, 6, or 10, inserted at the base of the disk, free ; filaments subulate ; anthera 

 ^rt, imperfect in the $ flower. Ovaiy sessile, ovoid or globose, 1-celled ; 

 ttyles 3, free or curvate, short or long; stigmas simple or capitate; ovule pendu- 



^ lous from a basal funicle. Drupe small^ diy, compressed; stone coriaceous, 

 cetaceous or bony.- Seed pendulous from the funicle, testa membranous, coty- 

 ledons flattish, radicle hooked short superior.— A large genus of about 120 



; ,^cies, natives chiefly of warm temperate regions. 



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bECT. 1. Cotinus. Xeaves simple. Panicle with many flowerless finally 

 elongate capillary hairy pedicels. Flmcers bisexual. Drwwe obovate, com- 

 pressed, ttone trian<?ular. 



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■ly '.^' Cotinus, Linn.; JBoiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 4; leaves long-petioled 

 ^ptic or obovate glabrous or tomentose. Brandts Fo7:Flor. 118. B. velutina^ 

 ^(^i-Cat. 098 (exd. C. in Herb. Linn. Soc.) : K. l^yis, Wall. mss. in G. Dm 

 Wen. %^. ii. 65. • -. : 



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_ VVESTEHN SuBTRopicAx HIMALAYA ; alt. 3-5000 ft., from Marri to Kumaon. 



■L'IStEIB. from Svria \CPRf-arQT^« fr. V-na-nn^ 



file ^ ^1 ^^ ^^^^^ *^«®- Leaves 2-4 in., obtuse ; nerves spreading, parallel ; petiole very 

 naer, 1--2 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, very large, slender, and many-flcwered. 

 wcrs j m^ diam, ; pedicels very slender. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals 



^^^®,^^^^^&> elliptic. Stamens shorter tban the petals ; anthers large. Bisk broad. 



flow 1 ,P^ i ^"'^ compressed, covered with wliito hairs. — The numerous hairy 



ariT^^ ^^^ ^^^*^^^^ ^^ *^^ "^^^y large copious panicles give this bush a remarkable 

 PF^arance during and after floM-ering. WalL Cat. 998 C. (in Herb. Linn. Soc. only) 



stwcedanea. 



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flirt. -^ * Sumac. Xeauea 3-foliolate or odd-pinnate. JP/otm-^ polygamous 

 ^cecious or bisexual Dz-w^^e ovoid or orbicular, ,/- 



Leaves trifbliolate. 



elH^'- *t!i P^'^iflora, Poxb. FL Lnd. ii. 100 ; softly tomentose, leaflets 

 7i,£;^^.?Wong-obovate or orbicular irregularly crenate above the middle. DC. 



'vy^i,fx^^\ Wall Cat. 991: Dalz. &■ Gibs. Bomb. Floi\ Suppl 19; Brandis 



-^^. i^/o?-, 119. . . ^ r . = 



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on f r ^^^ HJ^ataya ; alt. 2-5000 ft., from Kiunaon to NipaL Central Ixdia 

 « ^e Pashmarchi hills, 5rancf/5. V ' - ^, 



clotW ^^^l^^^ shrub; branchlets, leaves beneath, petioles and panicle densely 

 stout ]fl ^^^*^ ^^^*y tomentum. Leaves palmate, 3-foliolate; petiole 1-1^ in., 

 toniento^ ^^^ 1^-3 in., sessile or the terminal contracted into a petiole, coriaceous. 



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axilla/;^® ^^ ^^^^ surfaces especially beneath ; nerves spreading, parallel. Panicles 

 very fi7 ^^ ^e^inal, silky, longer than the leaves. Flowers ^ in. diam. ; pedicels 

 W ^. *' ^^cts linear. Sepals ovate, the outer hairy. Petah twice as long, ob- 

 TlieCp 1 ^■^^^^^'i- Brupe^ in. diam., ovoid, compressed, red-brown, shining.— 

 J^eyion specimens alluded to in Brandis are no doubt cultivated ones. 



lets ^m^l" ^y^o'enste. ^''.y^^.- W^- 4- -4. i^-oir ]^'^ 



119. 7, i,° "novate or cuneate sinuate-toothed or -lobed. 

 ' «o^«e Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 78. t. xl f. S f Wall. 



Sulima f^ "^^^^"^ ^^^^^ 5 Scind, Stocks ; Rohilkund, near Delhi. Western 

 A sm^lf^' ^^^* 2500-5000 ft. .Western PenikstjIa; Maisor and the Dekkan; 

 ^^11 shrub; branches woody, flexuous, often spinous; branddets 



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