PLANTS OF TEE PUNJAB. 



953 



.Shrubs with Alternate Exstipdlate Simple Leaves. 



Beptonia buzifolia, 



Gurgnra. 

 Myksine^. 

 F. B.I. iii. 534. 

 Peshawar. 

 Salt Range. 



Trans Indns Hills, 2-3,000 

 feet. 



Petals United. 



large, spinous or not ; branches grey ; leaves 1^ 

 by I in., shortly stalked, ovate with a broad blunt 

 tip, base narrowed, margin smooth, recurved, leath- 

 ery, smooth above, slightly velvety beneath ; flowers 

 small, greenish yellow, sessile in axillary tufts, calyx 

 lobes 5 ; round, overlapping, corolla tube short, lobes 

 5, oblong, blunt, stamens 5, alternating with 5 pro- 

 cesses; fruit round, fleshy, edible, |4 in. diam., one— 

 or rarely two-seeded ; seed round with hollowed base. 



Apocynace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 640. 



Salt Range. 



Peshawar. 



Trans Indus Plains. 



Eliazya StriCta, small, smooth, stout, series of stems in clumps, 



Vena, gaiulera, rargalam. milky juice from young parts ; leaves 3-4 by ^-| in., 



oblong-lanceolate, short-pointed, sessile, leatheiy and 

 yellow when dry ; flowei-s white, in dense terminal 

 short axUlary stoutly branched and shortly stalked 

 clusters, bracts awl-like and persistent, calyx short, 

 lobes 6, short pointed, corolla circular, tube cylindric 

 5 in., lobes 5, short, broad overlapping to the left, 

 stamens 5, above the middle of corolla tube, but not 

 protruding ; follicles two, erect, 2-3 by | in., slightly 

 flattened, rather leathery, seeds 4 in. long angularly 

 flattened, shortly winged. The leaves, flowers, and 

 fruit are used in rheumatism and other joint affec- 

 tions, the dried fruit is used to coagulate milk. 



ITerium odorum, 

 Oleander, 



Kaner, ganhira. 



Apocynace^. 



F. B. I. iii. 654. 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



In dry ravines. 



Hazara (Barrett). 



medium size, bark silvery grey, from young parts 

 a milky juice exudes ; leaves in whorls of three, 4-6 

 by j-l ia., linear lanceolate, thick, leathery, long 

 pointed, dark green shining above, rough and dotted 

 beneath, stalk short ; flowers red, pink, or white, 

 usually sweet scented, sometimes double, in laj-ge 

 terminal branching clusters, sepals broad, awl-pointed, 

 corolla 1^ ins. across, funnel shaped, lobes spreading, 

 rounded overlapping to the left, tube f in. long, 5 

 fringed scales on throat, stamens inserted near the 

 mouth of the tube forming a cone, each prolonged up 

 in a long thread-like hairy appendage ; follicles narrow, 

 6-9 by r|-^ in., straight, united below ; seeds many, 

 crowned with a tuft of hairs. The leaves are poison- 

 ous to all animals but goats. An oil extracted J rem 

 the root bark ia used in skin diseases, especially in 



