PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



843 



Trees with Opposite Exstipclate Simple Leaves. 



Lagerstreeraia Flos- 



Jarul. 



Lythrace^e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 577. 



The Plains. 



Cornus macrophylla, 



Haleo, kasir. 



CORNACE^E. 



F. B. I. ii. 744. 

 Himalaya, 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Cornus obionga, 



Kagshi, bakar. 



CORNACE^E. 

 F. B. I. ii. 744. 

 Himalaya, 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



large ; leaves 4-8 in. long ; spines sometimes on 

 the trunk and branches of old trees ; flowers 2-3 in 

 across, mauve, petals long, stalked, wavy ; capsule 

 I5 in. long, seeds winged. 



large , bark brown, rough, leaves sometimes a few 

 alternate, 6-4 in. long, long pointed ; flowers small, 

 in bunches, often 4-5 in. diam., calyx covered with 

 white hairs/ petals 3-4^1 in. long, strap shaped, stamens 

 4 ; fruit round, £ in. diam., crowned with the remains 

 of the cup-shaped calyx. 



small ; bark reddish brown, rough ; leaves sometimes 

 a few alternate, 2-6 by f-1^ in. narrowly oblong ; 

 flowers as above ; fruit ovoid, \ in diam., crowned as 

 above. 



Comus caPifeata, small ; bark greyish brown ; young branches and 



The Strawberry Tree, leaves rough with short close clinging two pointed 



hairs ; leaves opposite 2-3| by lj-lj in. oblong or 

 ovate ; flowers in heads rounded £ in. diam. with four 

 yellowish white bracts 1 by \ in. petal-like, calyx, teeth 

 4, reflexed, petals 4, stamens 4 ; fruit a depressed 

 round strawberry-like head of many minute drupes, 

 one seeded, edible. 



Thanvar, thesi. 

 OoRNACE^:. 

 F. B. I. ii. 745. 

 Himalaya, 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (.Collett). 



Olea Cuspi&ata, The 

 Olive, 



Kahu. 



Oleace^;. 



F. B. I. Hi. 611. 



Himalaya, 2-6,000 ft. 



small : bark thin, peeling in narrow strips when old, 

 leaves 2-4 in. long, leathery, oblong, tip hard, acute, 

 smooth, shining above, covered beneath by minute red 

 scales ; flowers small, white, in numerous short 

 branching racemes in the axils of leaves, corolla 

 rotate deeply divided, tube short, lobes 4, stamens 2 ; 

 drupe J — J in. long, ovoid, black when ripe, stone 

 hard, one seeded. 



Olea glan&ulifera, 



Grulili, phalslb. 

 OLEACE-E. 



F. B. I, Hi. 611. 

 Himalaya, 2-6,000 it. 



medium size ; bark rough, branches with lentil 

 shaped corky excrescences , leaves ovate 4-5 by 1J 

 in., long pointed, glands on the under surface ; 

 flowers cream coloured in terminal or lateral branch- 

 ing racemes 2-3 in. long, corolla deeply divided ; 

 drupe J-J in. long, ovoid, acute at the top, black 

 when ripe, stone as the last. 



