PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



851 



Trees with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals Ununited. 



fleshy, edible, sweet, green with a tinge of red when 

 ripe, stone deeply and irregularly furrowed, thick. 



Frunus Armeniaca 5 

 The Apricot, 



Zurdalu. 



Rosacea. 



F. B. I. it. 313. 



Himalaya to 11,000 ft. 



small, bark light brown; leaves 2-3J in. diam., 

 broad ovate, pointed, minutely toothed, long stalked, 

 stalk 1-1 J in. long, flexible, with two glands, stipules 

 lanceolate ; flowers appearing with or after the 

 leaves, f in. diam,, white, shortly stalked, petals 5, 

 stamens many ; drupe yellow, or sometimes black in 

 Kashmir, 1-1| in. long, velvety or nearly smooth, 

 fleshy, not opening in two pieces, stone thick with a 

 prominent thickened grooved margin. 



FriWUS AvXTlia small, bark brownish grey, smooth, roots without 



The Sweet Cherry sprouting shoots ; leaves flaccid, drooping, acutely 



or Gean, 



BOSACE^E. 



F. B. I. ii. 313. 



Himalaya to 8,000 ft. 



toothed, oblong ovate, broader at the apex, velvety 

 beneath, stalk long with two glands ; flowers appear- 

 ing with the leaves, white, long stalked in clusters, 

 petals 5, spreading, stamens many ; drupe \-h in. 

 diam., round, smooth, shining, sweet or bitter, stone 

 smooth. 



Prunus Ceraaus, 

 The "Wild Cherry, 



(Silas, olchi. 



BOSACEJE. 



F. B.I. ii. 313. 

 Himalaya to 8,000 ft. 



small, bark brownish grey, smooth, roots with 

 many sprouting shoots, leaves 2-3 by 1-1^ in., 

 ovate, abruptly long pointed, erect, firm shining, 

 minutely toothed, smooth beneath, stalk short, without 

 glands ; flowers appearing with the leaves, white, on 

 long slender stalks in clusters of 2-5, petals 5, erect, 

 stiff ; drupe \-\ in. diam., round, smooth, shining, 

 stone round smooth. 



Primus Fuddum, 



Padam. 



Bosace^e. 



F. B. I. ii. 314. 



Himalaya, 3-6,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



medium size, bark smooth, brownish grey, peeling 

 in strips ; leaves 3-5 by 11-^ in., ovate, lanceolate, 

 very long pointed, sharply glandular toothed, smooth, 

 shining, stalk £ in. long with 2-4 glands at the base, 

 stipules long, divided into 3-5 segments, fringed with 

 glands ; flowers appearing before the leaves, 1 in. 

 diam., pink fading to white, solitary or in small 

 clusters towards the ends of branchlets, stalked 

 petals 5 oblong, obtuse stamens many ; drupe ovoid 

 £-§ in. long, flesh scanty, yellow or reddish, acid, 

 stone, wrinkled and furrowed. 



