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Pyrus foUolpsa. 



/JratcBgui crenulatn. 



( 'otonea-der baoUlaris. 



Cotoneaster inicro- 

 2)hylla. 



XXI—SAXIFR- 



AGEiE. 



Saxifratja ciliaia. 



Saxifraga diversifoUa . 



Parnassia nnbioola. 

 Devitzia staminea. 



XXII-CRASSUL 



ACE^. 



Knlanchoe spathulnta . 



Stdiim trijiilum. 



Sidum rosiiUitum. 



XXIII.-LYTH- 



RACE^. 



Woo'l/ordla florihmda. 



At * Jabar-khet (Laudaui) ; flowers during April : 

 ill fruit in August ; the bloom covered red fruit in 

 September looks very pretty. 



The Hawthorn, is conimou. It blooms in April : 

 fruit an orange-red dry drupe containing five triangu- 

 lar one-seeded nutlets, ripens in the cold weather. 

 The vernacular name is "ghingaru " and the fruit is 

 eaten and the straight spiny branches are in great 

 demand here for walking sticks. 



The ■• Rauns" or ' Ruinsh " is common in most 

 shaded localities, the wood is white and very hard and 

 is much sought after for walking and " Khud " sticks 

 and in consequence one never meets with a tree that 

 has not been repeatedly cut and mutilated : flowers 

 in April-May ; the fruit ripening in July. 



A much-branched prostrate evergreen shrub, met: 

 with everywhere, growing against rocks and banks : 

 flowers in April-May : fruit August -September. 



Is very common on rocks about Mussoorie, attain- 

 ing quite a large size in favourable situations, bears 

 pretty pink flowers during March. 



Is less common ; it blooms in September and bears 

 pictty yellow flowers. 



Not common, it blooms here in September. 



131ooros in April and May and makes a great show 

 nith its panniclcs of waxy -white flowers. 



(lirovving in j'ocky i^roiuid on tlic road up from 

 Kajpur ; not found much above 4.000 feet : flowers 

 dnring the rains. 



Is common on trues and rocks : flowers during the 

 rains. 



On rocks : tlowtrs earlv in Ma\. 



Common in the Valleys below Mussoorie. Flowers 

 at the beginning of the hot weather. The flowers 

 secrete honey. They are collected and exported under 

 the name of •' Dhawai " to the Punjab for dyeing silk. 



