PLANTS GATHERED IN AND ABOUT MUSSOORIE. 493 



Phyllanthui' 

 Ims. 



pi'oservo. The leaves and Imik are used for tanning 

 leather. 



parrifo- Is a common roadside plant, it flowern during 

 September, fruit ripens end of October. 



Putranjiva roxburghii. 



Bridelia rtttusi. 



Jatropha c ureas. 



Trewia wudifiora. 



Sapiutu iebiferum . 



Mallotui pkUippiiien- 



s%s. 



Is found in the Uuii and lower valleys about 

 Mussooric, Flowers during the hot months, ripening 

 its fruits during the ensuing cold weather. The 

 nuts are strung into rosaries and tied round the 

 necks of delicate children to ward off disease. Hence 

 its vernacular name " Jia-pota " or " Jia-putra." 



Is also a common Dun tree, 

 rains, fruit ripens cold weather, 

 ni " or " Goli." 



Flowers during the 

 Vernacular " Gond- 



A very common hedge plant in the Dun ascending 

 lo the foot of the hills, quite common at Rajpur. 

 Vernacular " Wilaiti Arand '' or "'Sufed Arand." 

 Appears in flower and fruit throughout the year. 

 The seeds are medicinal. 



Common on banks of streams in the Dun and 

 up the Jumna valley. Flowers during the hot 

 months, fruits during cold weather. 



Vernacular " Tar charbi," a small crooked gnarled 

 tree. So far as my memory serves me this was 

 introduced to the Dehra Dun but is now found as 

 an escape all over the Dun, it resembles the Shisham 

 in general appearance. Flowers during rains, fruit 

 ripens in cold weather. 



Vernacular " Rohni. " is a very common tree m 

 the Dun and ascends up all the warm valleys 

 below Mussoorie to above the cart road— 4,500 feet, 

 flowers during the warm weather and fruits during 

 cold weather when the tree becomes conspicuous 

 being laden with bunches of globose capsules which 

 are densely covered with a bright red powder: 

 vernacular " Kamela." In Kamaon the berries are 

 collected in coarse blankets " Kammal " through 

 which the powder is sieved, whence probably its 

 native name. The powder is used extensively for 

 dyeing silks and in medicine as a vermifuge. I have 

 found ii one of the safest remedies lor worms in 



