PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



947 



SnnuBS WITH Alteknate Exsripnr.ATE Simple Leaves, 



Petals Uncmted. 



Bhns Cotlntis, 

 Ttio vi?treo, 

 VoIX7ti^n Sumach,, 



Tun'ja,, hha'i Jung. 

 ANACAUDIACE.E. 

 F. B. I. ii. 9. 

 Himalayn, S-o,nOO ft. 

 IT nzira (Barrett;. 

 Valley.s below Simla. 

 CCollcit). 



large, bark reddish brown, branchlets red, young 

 parts grey woolly ; leaves 2-4 liy li-H ins., stalks. 1^-3 

 ins. long, ovate or round, polished above, slightly 

 woolly beneath ; flowers very small, pale yellow, ^^ 

 in. diam. few on very slender long stalks forming loose 

 feathery, pale, purple bunches, sepals linear, oblong, 

 petals longer than the sepals, stamens 5, styles 3; 

 drupe 1 in. long, compressed reddi?b covered with 

 white hairs. The wood under the name of Young 

 Fustic is much used in Europe for dyemg wool 

 scarlet or orange. The bark and leaves are used for 

 lanningr. 



Orotolaria BarU:^, 



Khip, sig, karsan, 



Leguminos.(E. 



F.B.I. ii.fG. 



The Plains to 4.000 ft. 



Sargodha (Douie). 



small, branches numerous, stiff, ending sometimes 

 in spinfs with fine pale felt ; leaves few, scattered, 

 almost .sessile, ^-1 J ins. lorg, silky, ovate or lanceo- 

 la'e ; flowers yellow 0-12 in terminal racemes flower 

 stalks very short with two bracteoles. calyx den.sely 

 silky, teeth lanceolate, corolla yellow with reddish 

 veins, hardly protruding, stamens 10, united, style 

 long, hairy jibove ; pod .3-4 seeded hardly longer than 

 the calyx, oblong, hairy. The fibre is sometimes 

 used in place of hemp. 



Orctolaria albl&a, 



LBOCMlNOBiB. 

 F. B. I ii. 71. 



The Plains to 7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Oullett). 



Orotolaria jurcea, 



Sanai, arjha mn. 

 Lkgcminos^. 

 F. B. K ii. 79. 

 The Plains. 



small, branches many, firm, round, slender, some- 

 what silky ; leaves nearly sessile, 1-2 ins. long, firm, 

 gland-dotted, narrow, oblong, smooth above, silky 

 beneath, flowers,^ in. long, pale yellow, usually in 

 terminal racemes calyx top-thaped, j in. long, thinly 

 silky, longer in fruit, teeth long, 3 lower linear, 2 upper 

 broader and blunter ; corolla pale yellow, rarely tin- 

 ged with lilac, hardly protruding, stamens 10 united, 

 style long, hairy above ; pod |-| in. long, sessile, twice 

 as long as the cayx, smooth, oblong, seeds 0-12. 



medium f^ize, cultivated ; branches stiff, slender, 

 silky ; leaves at somewhat distant spaces linear or 

 oblong, 1 ^-3 ins. long, both surfaces shining with short 

 brown silky hairs, flowers 1 in. long in l2-".'0 — flowered 

 racemes, 0-12 ins. long, bracts minute, linear, calyx 



