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Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Petals United. 



FieriS OValifOlia, small ; bark thick deeply furrowed, peeling in 

 Allan. narrow flakes ; leaves 3-7 by 1-4 in., ovate, smooth, 



Ericace^. flowers 1-^ in. long white bell-shaped, bracteolate 



F. B. I. iii. 460. j,„ narrow bracteate racemes, 4-10 in. long, calyx 



Himalaya 3-8,000 ft. ^^^^j^ 5 triangular, corolla lobes 5 recurved : stamens 



10, with 2 filiform tails, capsules g^ in., round, 

 smooth, splitting into five valves, seeds minute, many, 

 linear oblong. 



BliodoiieiKiroxi 

 arboream, 



Bur a /IS. 

 Ericace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 465. 

 Himalaya, r)-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (CoUett). 



small ; bark reddish brown, thick, furrowed, peeling 

 in narrow flakes : leaves 5 by 1^ in., often clustered 

 at the end of branches, oblong, narrowed at both 

 ends pointed, whitish, felted beneath, sometimes 

 brown, flowers 1-li x f-1 in., red, widely opened in 

 dense clusters, calyx lobes J- in. wide, ovate, corolla 

 bell shaped, lobes 5, stamens 10, fruit, a capsule. Ixj- 

 in., cylindrical, curved with longitudinal ridges. 



If 



Ideesa indica, 



MVRSINACEiE. 

 F. B. I. iii. 509. 



The Plains to 6^000 ft. 

 Ambal la district, Simla , 

 (Mclatire). 



small ; branches long and straggling ; leaves 5 by 

 in., leathery, pointed, margin toothed : flower 

 white, small in branched racemes, calyx lobes 5, 

 blunt, corolla 5 lobed twice the size of the calyx 

 short ; fruit a round berry about the 

 size of a pepper corn, fleshy, juicy, pinkish white when 

 ripe, crowned with the calyx, seeds many, hollowed out 

 at the base. 



£lePtOAia bUSifolia, see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



lAimiisops 



MauUiri. 



SAPOTACEiE. 



F. B I. iii. 548. 

 The Plains. 



Olsn^i, large ; young shoots, flower stalk and outside of 

 calyx covered with rusty velvet ; leaves 3i by If in. 

 smooth, short pointed, usually crowded at the end of 

 branchlets ; flowers white, fragrant, in clusters, calyx 

 with 8 segments in two series, corolla lobes 16-20 

 in two series, narrow pointed, stamens 8, staminodes 

 8, all hairy ; berry f-1 in,, ovoid, one, rarely two 

 seeded, yellow, edible. 



