PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Texmi&alia tomen- 

 tosa, 



Asaina, sain. 



COMBRETACE^. 



F. B. I- ii. 447. 

 The Plains. 



Anogeissus latifolia, 



BakUf JJhau, 

 COMBRETACE^;. 

 F. B. I. ii. 450. 

 The Plains to 3,000 ft. 



Petals None. 



large ; bark deeply cracked, dark grey or black, 

 peeling off in thick rectangular pieces, inner bark 

 reddish brown, young parts covered with rusty velvety 

 down ; leaves nearly opposite, 4-8 in, long smooth 

 above, woolly beneath ; flowers dull yelkw j* in. 

 diam., calyx woolly, in spikes, bracts lanceolate, 

 longer than buds, no petals ; fruit \h-1h in, long 

 with broad wings, striated ; the fruit is used as in the 

 former species of Terminalia. 



small ; bark greyish-green, smooth ; young parts. 

 covered with rusty velvety down, leaves 2-4 in. 

 long broad, rounded at both ends, smooth when old ; 

 flowers in round heads, small, heads h in. ,diam., 

 in racemes, calyx tube long, teeth 5, soon falling, 

 stamens 10, in two series, no petals: fruit ^ in., 

 two wings, compressed, crowned with the remains of 

 the calyx as a beak. 



see Trees, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



large ; leaves 4-G by H-2 in oblong with a 

 tapering point, sliming, dark green, dotted with small 

 glands : flowers \-^ in. diam., pale yellow, fragrant, 

 quite smooth in branching racemes, sepals 6, reflexed 

 in fruit, stamens 9 in 2 series, fruit an ovoid or oblong 

 drupe, dark purple when ripe, sometimes with a bloom 

 on the surface, i-f in. seated on the persistent calyx. 



ISacllilUS Duthiei, is very like the last, but the leaves are not so dark, 



Chan. the flowers are covered with silky down, and the fruit 



Laurine^. is roimd. 



F.B.I. V. 861. 

 Himalaya, 4-9,000 feet. 

 Simla, the Glen (Collett). 



Cinnamomum 

 mala, 



Ta- 



MacMlus odoratis- 

 sima, 



Kanla^ mithpatta. 



Laubine^. 



F. B. I. V. 139, 859. 



Himalaya, .5,000 feet. 



Sutlej Valley, Suni 



(ColJett). 



Phoebe lanceolata, 



Badror. 



Laurine^. 



F. B. I. v. 141. 



Himalaya, 2-6,000 teet. 



Bhajji, Sutlej Valley 



CCollott). 



small ; bark yellowish white ; leaves 5-8 by 1-2 

 in, crowded at the end of branches, narrow with 

 tapering point smooth ; flowers in branching racemes 

 not at the end of branches, ^^-^ in. pale yellow or 

 white, sepals 6, hairy within, stamens 9 in 2 series, of 

 <> and ;> with 3 staminodes ; fruit I in. narrowly 



