PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Cedrela serrata, 

 Sill Toon, 



Barli, chutisirin. 

 Meliaceje. 



Himalaya, 3-8,000 ft. 

 Matiana, Sainj (Collett). 



Petals ununited. 



medium size ; bark with regular longitudinal 

 cracks ; leaves with usually an unequal number of 

 leaflets, 2-3 ft. long, leaflets 24-48, 3-8 by 1-2| in., 

 ovate, long pointed, margin toothed ; flowers in 

 loose drooping branching racemes, longer than the 

 leaves, pink, sepals 5 or 6, often smooth, petals 5 or 

 f^), smooth, stamens 5 alternating with 5 staminodes ; 

 capsules 1 in. long, ovoid, pointed, dark grey ; seeds 

 winged only at the upper end. 



Sarindns Mu^orossi, 

 Soap<nut tree, 



Rithoy dodan. 

 F.B.I, i 683. 

 The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



small, bark grey ; leaves even pinnate, 12-20 in. 

 long, crowded at the ends of branches ; leaflets 10-20, 

 3|-6 by 1-2 in., smaller at the eud of the leaf ; 

 flowers white or purple in branching racemes, ^'^ in. 

 long, petals 4 as a rule fringed with haii's and 2 woolly 

 sea es on each side of its stalk, stamens 8, far pro- 

 truding ; fruit fleshy round f-1 in. long, one seed- 

 ed, covering saponaceous, wrinkled when dry, yel- 

 low ; seed black, loose in the fruit when dry, the 

 fruit is commonly used instead of soap for washing 

 clothes. 



Elxus semi-alata, 



Ttkri, lUriy dudla 

 kaJikari. 



Anaca I I lACE^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 10. 

 Himalaya, 3-7,000 feet. 

 Simla, the Glen, Mahasu 

 (Collett) . 



small, young parts grey velvety ; leaves, odd pin- 

 nate, 12-18 in. long, upper part of leaf stalk wing- 

 ed; leaflet 9-13, lateral sessile, end one on a lonsr 

 wmged stalk ovate, 2-5 in., closely and sharply 

 toothed, lower surface reddish white woolly ; flow- 

 ers jIq in. diam. pale yellow green, in large dense 

 branched racemes, racemes, as long as the leaves, 

 calyx small 4-6 cleft, petals 3-5 fringed with hairs 

 stamens 3-5 or 6 or 10 ; fruit a drupe } in. diam. 

 woolly red-brown, acid, edible. 



Hhus punjabensis, 



litri, choklu, dor. 



Anaca KDiACE.(E. 

 F. B. I. ii, 10. 

 Himalaya, 38,000 feet. 

 Simla, Jaku, The Glen 

 CCoUett). 



small, bark rough, dark grey, leaves aromatic, 

 young parts velvety ; leaves odd pinnate, 12-18 

 in. long, stalk not winged, leaflets 11-13, la- 

 teral sessile, end one stalked, ovate, 2^-5 in., 

 margin smooth or toothed towards the tip ; flowers 

 on broad branching racemes much shorter than the 

 leaves, flowers yellow green, less than j^^ in. diam. 



