PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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TuEKS WITH Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals None. 



4, on the mouth of the calyx alternating with the 

 lubes ; fruit | in. long, oblong, red, dry or fleshy 

 stone thick bonv. 



Putranjiva Rozbtir- 

 ghii, 



Jiapnta. 



EUPHOBBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V, 336, 



The Plains to 3,500 ft. 



Valleys of the outer 



hills (CoUett). 



Mallottis pMliP- 

 pincnsis, 



liora, llaini, R,ili. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 4-52. 



Base ot «^^he Himalaya, 



Sut'.ej and Giri Valleys 



(CoUett). 



medium size ; bark dark grey, nearly smooth with 

 horizontal lines of white dots ; branches pendent ; 

 leaves 2-3 in. long, evergreen, dark green shining 

 margin wavy, ovate ; flowers, male nearly sessile in 

 clusters, (female stalked, in pairs or solitary,) yellow, 

 small, calyx 3-5 lobed, stamens 3, female flowers calyx 

 5-6 lobed, styles 3 ; fruit i in. long, ovoid, stone very 

 hard, pointed, wrinkled. 



medium size ; bark thin dark grey, young branches 

 rusty ; leaves 3-5 in. long, velvety beneath with 

 crimson glands, stalk 2-3 in, long ; flowers in brown 

 red spikes, minute, calyx 3 lobed, stamens 20-30 on a 

 central receptacle, no petals ; capsules ^-^ in. diam,, 

 3 lobed, covered with crimson powder ; seeds round, 

 ^o in, diam., smooth, black. The crimson powder is 

 called Kamela and used as an orange dye and as a 

 vermifuge. 



SaFium insi^ne, 



DiKilu, Leiidua. 



EUPH0EBIACE.3E. 



F. B. I. V. 471. 

 Himalaya, 5,000 



tt. 



Vulleys below 

 (Collett). 



Simla 



small ; bark grey coiky, thick milky juice, branches 

 thick, soft, branchlets leafy at the tips , leavts 6-12 

 in. long, oblong, long pointed, soft, smooth ; 

 flowers yellow green in long floshy terminal spikes, 

 male flowers in circular clusters, calyx 2 lipped, deeply 

 cleft, stamens 2, short, top scarlet, female flowers 

 nearly sessile, solitary, calyx 2-3 cleft, ovate, long 

 pointed, styles 3, short recurved ; capsule ovoid ^ in . 

 long, obscurely lobed on a fleshy spike. 



Myrica Haii, 



Kaiphal. 



F. B. I. V. 597. 



small, bark brownish grey rough vertically wrinkled, 



branchlets velvety ; leaves 3-7 in, by 1-2 in., leathery, 



with aromatic dots beneath ; flowers in bractoate 



ma aja, 'hs o lo cylindric catkin like spikes, male flowers with 3-6 

 Ravi river, 3-6,00D ft. '' . ., , , ^ -, , n -, ■ ■, 



stamens m axils of broad bracts, female with '/i styles 



in glandular bracts ; fruit f in, long, ovoid, succulent, 



edible, pulp of red spindle shaped fibres, radiating 



from the wrinkled nut. The bark is used as a 



stimulant carminative and astringent. 



Simlii, the Glen (Col- 

 lett). 



