86 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX 



Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Schleicliera trijuga, 

 Tlie Lactreei 



Gosum^ kussumby sainvia. 



Sapindace^. 



F.B.T. i. 681. 



The Plains East of the 



Svtlej river. 



Petals None. 



bark grey, peeling in irregular pieces, red inside 

 leaves with an equal number of leaflets, 8-16 in. 

 long, pink when young, dark green when old, leaflets 

 4-8, 2-9 byli-Si in,, the terminal pair much the 

 longest, oblong or ovate ; flowers yellowish green in 

 drooping racemes at the ends of branches, calyx 4-6 

 cleft, small, stamens, 6-8. longer than calyx, hairy, 

 petals none ; fruit dry, pointed, smooth or spinous, ^-1 

 in. long, seeds 1 or 2 in a pulpy appendage, edible, 

 pleasant acid flavour. Lac is produced on this tree by 

 the Coccus lacca insect. 



Fistacia integer- 

 rima, or Shinjals, 



Kakhar^ saraioan^ gurgu. 

 ANACARDIACEJ5. 



F. B. I. ii. 13. 



The Plains j Peshawar, 



Salt rans^e, Himalaya, 



1,500-8,000 feet. Simla 



(Collett). 



bark rough, grey ; large crooked galls, kakrisingi. 

 form on the leaves in autumn and are sold as medicine, 

 leaves, odd or even pinnate, 6-9 in. long : leaflets 

 8-12, 3-6 by 1-1 f in., very long pointed, smooth ; 

 flowers small, male and female on separate trees, no 

 petals, red in lateral branching racemes appearing with 

 the young leaves which are aho red, in male flowers 

 calyx .5 cleft very small, stamens 5-7 ; female flower 

 calyx 4 cleft, lobes soon falling off, styles 3, recurved ; 

 drupe \ in. diam., broader than long, wrinkled, 

 grey when ripe, seed with a membranous coat. 



En^eUiardtia 

 broo]^iaaa, 



Timor rakJi. 

 JUGLANDE^. 

 F. B. 1. V. 59C. 

 Himalaya, East 

 Chenabjto 6,000 ft. 



Qq\q. small, bark grey, shoots woolly ; leaves odd pinnate, 

 8-12 in. long, leaflets 6-11, end one smallest, often 

 wanting, lateral nearly opposite, shortly stalked, 3-5 

 in. long, woolly beneath; flowers in spikes, small 

 green, males in slender catkins, calyx 4-5 fid, stamens 

 ' 4-5, nearly sessile, females in pendulous spikes, 3 large 

 unequal bracts, calyx 4 toothed, hairy, petals none, 

 style of 2-4 branches ; fruit a small round nut, \-\ in. 

 diam., hairy, seated on a 3 lobed bract. 



( To he continued.) 



