PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves, 



Petals Ununited. 



Feronia Slepban- 

 tnm, Elephant or 

 Wood apple, 



RUTACE^. 



F. B. I.i. 516. 



The Plains to 1,500 ft. 



medium size ; spinous ; bark blackish-grey wrin- 

 kled and with shallow longitudinal furrows ; leaves 

 smellinsr of aniseed with an odd number of leaflets, 

 leaflets 5-7, opposite toothed, gland dotted ; flowers 

 h in. diam., reddish green in loose clusters, calyx 

 5 toothed, soon falling off, petals 4-5, stamens 10-12 ; 

 fruit with woody rind, round, grey, rough, 2h in. 

 diam., edible, seeds oblong, buried in pulp. 



^flo Harmelos, 



Bel. 



Rutacs^. 



F. B I. i. 516. 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. 



medium size, spinous, bark grey corky ; leaves 3|-6| 

 in. long, leaflets 3-5, lateral sessile, terminal one 

 stalked, 2-4 by 1-1 5 in. ; flowers greenish -white in 

 bunches 1 in, diam., sweet scented, calyx 4-5 

 toothed, flat, velvety, petals 4-5, spreading, stamens 

 many ; fruit 2-7 in. diam., round with grey woody 

 rind, pulp orange coloured, sweet, seeds many in 

 gummy pulp. The pulp of the fruit cures dysentery. 



Ailantlitis ezcolsa, 



Arun, Mcfarukka. 



SlMARUBACEiE. 



F. B.I. i. 518. 



The Plains, Delhi Dist. 



large ; leaves one foot or more long, with an un- 

 equal number of leaflets ; leaflets numerous, on long 

 stalks unequal at the base, hairy ; flowers small, 

 yellowish in long bunches calyx small, 5 cleft, petals 

 5 spreading, edges inverted, stamens 10 in male 

 flowers, stamens 2-3 in two sexed flowers, none in 

 female flowers, styles 2-5, united ; fruit of 1-5 long 

 membranous red twisted, winge 2 by k in. long, each 

 with one seed. 



Bos^ellia serrata, 



Salar, galhi. 



Burseuace^. 



F. B. I. i. 528. 



Base of the Himalaya, 



J^astof the Butlej river. 



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medium size, spreading flat crown, bark reddish- 

 yellow or greenish-grey peeling off in thin flakes ; 

 a clear gum exudes which burns with a pleasant odour ; 

 leaves crowded at the ends of branches: with unequal 

 leaflets, leaflets 8-15 pairs besides the end one, 2-3 

 in. long, short toothed, tip usually rounded ; flowers 

 small, white in racemes, calyx small, 5-7 cleft, petals 

 5-7, stamens 10-12 ; drupe i in. long, three angled 

 splitting into three portions, one bony seed in eacb 

 surrounded by the woody disk. 



