PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



03 



Trees with Alternate Stipulatk Compound Leaves. 



PkTAL:^ UnDNITED. 



Pod bearing. 



Pinnate with b-many Leaflets. 



medium size ; bark greyish greeu ; leaves 8-10 in. 

 long, leaflets 5-7, 2-4 in. long, flowers ^ in. long, 

 whitish tinged with violet or pink in axillary racemes; 

 pod H-2 in. long. \-\ in. thick woody, with a curved 

 The Plains to 3,000 ft. ^^^^^^ . ^^^^ j j j^ ^jj^m. OU from the seeds is used 



for lighting and as a cure for skin diseases. 



Ponsami^ glabra, 



Pa par. 



LEGUMlNOaiE 

 F. B. I. ii. 240. 



Leaves Bipinnate. 



CaesalPiHia, or Poia- small ; prickles, on branches few and scattered ; 



Ciana iUlcJlSrrilua, pinnas 12-18, leaflets on the pinnas 20-24 ; flowers 



KrishnacTiura. large, scarlet yellow, calyx 5 cleft to base, petals 5, 



Leguminos^. nearly equal, stamens 10, pod nearly straight, 2-3 in. 

 F, B. I. ii. 255. 

 The Plains. 



long, narrow and thin, seeds (3-8. 



Parl^msonia acu^ 

 leata, 



Vllayati hlkar. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 2«i0. 



The Plains to 3,000 ft 



Small ; sharp woody spines, the remains of the leaf 

 stalks of bipinnate leaves with 2-6 pinnae in the 

 axils of two stipulate thorns, leaves bipinnate, pinnae 

 5-1 ft. long, stalks much flattened with or without 

 mmute leaflets; flowers yellow h in. diam. in short 

 racemes, calyx lobes nearly equal, petals equal, pods, 

 3-4 in. long, like a necklace of beads. A native of 

 Tropical America. 



Leaves Pinnate. 



Cassia Fistula, small ; leaves 1 ft. long, leaflets 2-6 in. long, stipules 



Illdiau LaTyarauiaa, minute, racemes as long as the leaves pendulous ; 



Amaltas. flowers 1 in. long, yellow, petals broad, nearly equal, 



Leguminos^. stamens 20 ; pods, 1-2 ft. long, cylindrical, 1 in. 



F. B. I. ii. 261. thick, seeds many, embedded in sweet blackish pulp 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. p^^g^tive. 



TamarinoLns in&ica, 

 Tamarind, 



Imli. 

 LEGaMINOS^. 



F. B. I. ii. 273. 

 The Plains. 



large ; leaves 3-6 in. long, leaflets h in. long 20-30 ; 

 flowers pale yellow streaked with red in racemes, ■ 

 calyx teeth 4, petals 3, ^ in. long, stamens 3 ; pod^. 

 3-8 by 1 in., leathery flattened, seeds, h in. diam. 

 embedded in brown pulp, brown, shining. 



