PLANTS OF TEE PUNJAB. 



719 



Shrdbs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Not Pod Beaeino. 



Petals Similar. 



Rulsus lasiocarpus, 



Pakdna, guriicha, kar- 

 manJi. 



KOSACE^. 



F. B. I. ii. 339. 

 Himalaya, 4-10,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mahasu (Collett). 

 Hazara (Barrett). 



f otentlUa fruticosa, 



Spanr/jha, vierino. 

 'ROSACAM. 



F. B. r. ii. 347. 



Himalaya, 8-12,000 ft. 

 Hattn (Collett). 



Fotentilla SalessoTrii; 



ROSACA.E. 



F. B.I. ii. 348. 



Kashmir. 



Lahul, 11-14,000 ft. 



felted beneath ; flowers white, 1-3 together on slender 

 drooping stalks, ^-f in. diam.. calyx lobes 5, broad, 

 long-pointed, petals 5, lobes rounded, stamens many ; 

 fruit round ^ in. diam., a column in the centre cover- 

 ed with 20-30 very small drupes, succulent, sweet, 

 red, or orange, a minute stone in each drupe, pitted. 



large; branches spreading, smooth, pendulous, pur- 

 ple, often rooting at the tips, prickles small, flattened, 

 few, often curved ; leaves 3-10 ins. long, midrib and 

 stalks prickly, stipules | in. linear awl-shaped, leaflets 

 5-9, ovate, lateral leaflets l5-2^ inches, end one 

 rather larger, often lobed green, smooth above, white 

 felted beneath ; flowers dark pink, ^-§ in. diam. in 

 clustered woolly small branching racemes, calyx 

 woolly, teeth 5, lanceolate, pointed, longer than the 

 petals, petals 5, round, stamens many ; fruit same 

 as the last species, but the drupes changing to black 

 from blue or it may be orange or red, much eaten by 

 Europeans and the natives. 



medium size, branches rigid or robust, sometimes 

 prostrate, very leafy ; leaves crowded, odd pinnate, 

 stipules large, membranous, blunt, leaflets 3-7, ovate- 

 lanceolate, 5-§ in., pointed, densely silky hairy above, 

 smooth beneath ; flowers yellow, many, silky, calyx 

 lobes 5, ovate or lanceolate, petals 5, much longer 

 than the calyx, stamens many ; achenes many, hairy. 



small, silky, stem woody, 1 in. thick ; leaves 4-6 

 ins., stipules membranous with a tail-like point, stalk 

 thick, leaflets 7-9, oblong, blunt, coarsely bluntly 

 toothed above the middle, white or green beneath 

 base rounded ; flowers white 1 in. diam., very many, 

 stalked in branching leafy clusters, calyx woolly, 

 lobes 5, ovate or lanceolate, petals 5, oblong-ovate with 

 a broad termination, longer than the calyx, stamens 

 many ; achenes minute, hairy, enclosed in the hairs 

 of the fruit base The fine powder under the leaves 

 causes sneezing. 



