62 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38991 to 39101— Continued. 



39039. Piiotinia integrifolia Lindley. Malaceae. 



Distribution. — A tall shrub or small tree with corymbs of white flowers 

 and blue berries, found on the lower slopes of the Himalayas up to an alti- 

 tude of 7,000 feet and in the Khasi Hills in India. 



39040. Picea SMiTiiiANA (Wall.) Boiss. Pinaceje. 

 (Picca morinda Link.) 



"A lofty tree met with in the northwest Himalayas between 7,000 and 

 11,000 feet in Sikkim and Bhutan. The wood is white, with reddish 

 brown tinge, and slightly harder than Abies webbiana. The wood is ex- 

 tensively used for packing cases, rough furniture, and planking. It 

 crackles and sends out sparks when burning and is consumed very 

 quickly but is much in demand for charcoal. The bark is used for roofing 

 shepherds' huts, and the leaves are collected by the hill people as a manure 

 and they are also used as litter for cattle." {Watt, Dictionary of the 

 Economic Products of India.) 



39041. Picroeehiza kubroa Bentham. Serophulariacese. 



"A low, more or less hairy herb, with a perennial woody, bitter root- 

 stock, common in the alpine Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikkim at alti- 

 tudes of 9,000 to 15,000 feet. The root of this species is used in medicine 

 in cases of fever and dyspepsia and as an ingredient of various purga- 

 tives." (Watt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of India.) 



39042. Piptadenia oudhensis Brandis. Miinosacea?. 



39043. Piptanthus nepalensis (Hook.) Sweet. Fabaceae. 



"A shrub, 6 to 10 feet high, possessing the habit of laburnum, native 

 of the temperate Himalayas from Sikkim to Bhutan at altitudes ranging 

 from 7,000 to 9,000 feet. The branches are downy, the stipules are small, 

 connate, and amplexicaul. The leaflets are glabrescent, lanceolate, 2 to 4 

 inches in length, and narrowed at both ends. The flowers, which range 

 from 12 to 20 in number, occur in subdense racemes." (Hooker, Flora 

 of British India, vol. 2, p. 62.) 



"A shrub or low tree with very pithy young shoots, naturally 8 to 12 

 feet high, but growing taller against walls, where it is generally placed 

 in England. At Kew it is deciduous, but in milder climates it retains 

 more or less foliage during the winter. Leaves alternate, consisting of 

 three lanceolate, stalkless leaflets, 3 to G inches long, about one-third as 

 wide, with a marginal nerve; smooth except when quite young, dark 

 green above, glabrous beneath ; the common leafstalk 1A to 2 inches long. 

 Racemes stiff, erect, 2 to 3 inches long, and as much broad, hairy, and 

 set with hairy bracts. Flowers pea shaped, li inches long, the stalk up to 

 1 inch long, and, like the brown calyx, very hairy ; petals bright yellow. 

 Pod 3 to 5 inches long, three-fourths inclj wide. 



"Native of the Himalayas, introduced to England in 1821. It thrives 

 well against a wall, where it flowers in May, but is not permanently 

 hardy in the open air at Kew. A shrub of exceptionally vigorous appear- 

 ance, it is, nevertheless, not long lived. It is easily propagated by seeds, 

 which it ripens in quantity, and owing to its dislike of root disturbance, 

 should be grown in pots until planted in permanence. Its flowering 

 sprays resemble those of the herbaceous genus Thermopsis. Wilson has 



