PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Trkes with Alternate Exstipulatk Simvm-, Lkaves, 

 Petals United, 



in. diam.. shoit, obtuse, edible, red or black, uot 

 ribbed with two stones, one or two seeded. 



Eliretia 1 se v i s, 



c'hamror. 

 BORAGINACE^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 141. 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. 

 t^utlej Valley, Basantpur 

 (Colliitt). 



medium size ; bark smooth, grey ; leaves o by 2} 

 in., margin even, ovate oblong ; flowers in one sided 

 slender spikes not always at the end of branches, :j 

 in. diam., white, calyx 5 cloft, corolla 5 lobed, 

 spreading, stamens 5 ; fruit a drupo i in. diam., 

 depressed, round, red, four ribbed with one to four 

 one-scbded stones. * 



Sridelia r e t u s a, 



Pathor^ mark. 

 EuPHOKBlACKiE. 

 F. B. 1. V. 268. 

 Himalaya, 2-3,600 ft. 



small ; bark thin, grey or brownish black; spinous 

 when young; leaves ?j-n in. long, very leathery, 

 oblong ; flowers small, yellow, in clusters on long spikes, 

 bracts small hairy, calyx 4-5 lobed, petals 5, in male 

 flowers stamens 5 united below, in female flowers 

 styles 2 with 2 branches each ; fruit -[ in. diam.. 

 round, purple black when ripe, resting on the flower, 

 fruit edible, sweet, one stone. 



Bri&Qlia XUOntana, small ; bark dark grey, branchlets often dotted with 



Tondiii, lar glial la. warts ; leaves 3-6 in. long, blunt or sharp pointed, 



EuPHORBiACE^. shining above, ovate ; flowers small greenish yellow in 



F. B. I. V. 269. axillary clusters, male and female together, bracts 



Himalaj-a, East of the jjjany, crowded, velvety, calyx lobes 5, sharp pointed, 

 Jhelum river 3-3,000 ft . ^^^^^^ .5, round, shortly stalked, male flowers stamens 5 



united below, female flowers styles 2 with 2 branches 

 each ; fruit size of a pea, ovoid or round, black when 

 ripe seated on the calyx, stones usually 2. 



Petals None. 



FlaCOUrtia Ramon t- small : more or less softly downy ; spinous ; leaves 1-2 



Clai^ var, OCCldeaialiS, in. long, broad and rounded; flowers small, yellow, 



Katai^ kukai. \a simple or branched racemes, sepals 4-5, small, petals 



BIXACE.J:. none, stamens many ; drape ^ in. diam., red or 



F. B. I. i. 193. jjjj^^j^ edible, stones minute 8-16 in two tiers. 

 Low bills to 3,J00 ft. 

 Suai (Collett). 



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