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Shrubs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals Ununited. 



Tunica Granatum, 

 Fomegranaie, 



Anar. 



Lytheace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 580. 

 The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



large, bark dark grey, branchlets often spinous, 

 leaves sometimes bardly opposite or clustered, 1-2 J 

 ins, long, oblong, obtuse, narrowed to a short stalk 

 with a margin, smooth, shining ; flowers vivid red, 

 sessile, solitary or ?> together, calyx greenish red, 1 by 

 I in., tubular, fleshy, with 5-7 points; petals 5-7, A-1 

 in. long, thin, wrinkled, bright red, stamens many ; 

 fruit l$-3i ins. diam., round, with a thick reddish 

 brown leathery rind, crowned by the calyx ; seeds ^ 

 in. long, angled in ruby red flesh with sweetish as- 

 tringent juice. The bark is used as a tan and dye, 

 and as a vermifuge. 



Cornus san^uinea, 

 The Cornel or 

 Dogwood Tree- 



CdENACKiE. 

 F. B. I.ii 744. 

 Kashmir, 7,000 ft. Gul- 

 merg. 



medium size ; branchlets, leaves beneath, and 

 bunches of flowers with minute white hairs; young 

 shoots are red ; leaves :| to 3 ins. long, smooth mar- 

 gin, ovate, turn red in the autumn : flowers small in 

 branching bunches, sepals, petals and stamens in fours; 

 drupe ovoid i in. diam., minutely hairy, 2-Cblled, 2- 

 seeded ; seeds oblong, flattened. 



Petals United. 



VibursLum cotinifo- 

 lium, 



CAPRIFOLIACKiE. 

 F. B. I.iii. 3. 

 Himalaya, fi-11,000 

 Simla (Collett). 



ft. 



medium size, bark grey ; leaves .S-3| ins. long, nearly 

 orbicular, stellately woolly beneath ; flowers in dense 

 clusters, which are 3-4 ins, across, calyx 5-toothed, 

 smooth, corolla tube 1 in. long, funnel-shaped, white 

 tinged with pink, stamens f', style shoit ; diupe ^ in. 

 long, oblong, compressed, ribbed, red, black when ripe, 

 edible ; seed dorsally two-grooved. 



Viburnxim stellula 

 turn, 



Capri FOLiACE.a;. 

 F. B. I. iu. 4. 

 Himal.iya, 6-11.000 

 Simla, MaLasu ( ^ollettj. 



large, branches long, bark almost black ; leaves 3-4 

 by 1^-2 ins., ovate long pointed distantly sharp tooth- 

 ed, stellate hairs beneath : flowers small very many in 

 large level topped terminal bunches, caly.\ 5-toothed, 

 stellately haiiy, corolla white, velvety, 5-lobed. 

 ^*- stamens 5 ; drupe I ^7 i i".> compi-essed, broadly 

 oblong, yellow, red, edible ; seed 2-grooved on both 

 surfaces. 



