PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



721 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 

 Not Pod Bearing. 



Aralia cachcmirica, 



Banalihor^ churial, 

 Araliace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 722. 

 Kashmir, 9-12,000 ft. 

 Himalaya, 7-8,000 ft. 

 Theog, Narkanda (Col- 



lett). 

 ChanglagaJIi (Douie). 



Zantliosyium ala- 

 tum, 



T$jbal, timru. 



Eutace^. 



F.B. Li. 493. 



Himalaya to 6,000 ft. 



Simla (Collett). 



Kasauli. 



Hazara (Barrett). 



Petals Similar. 



medium size ; leaves pinnate or bi or tripinnate, end 

 pinna with 5-9 leaflets, leaflets 3|-1^ ins., oblong long- 

 pointed, heart-shaped at the base, minutely toothed, 

 hairy above, smooth beneath ; flowers white, small, 

 many in round umbels, in simple or branching race- 

 mes, small or 12 ins. long, calyx 5 toothed, petals 5 

 reflexed, stamens 5 ; fruit small, succulent, drupe 

 round, black ^^ in. diam,, 5 ribbed, containing 5 bony 

 one-seeded nuts. 



Petals None. 



large, strongly aromatic, bark corky, strong prick- 

 les on the branches, leaf -stalks and midribs of leaves 

 and leaflets, branchlets dotted with white specks : 

 leaves unequally pinnate, 2-6 ins. long, two stipular 

 spines at the base of the winged leaf-stalk, leaflets 

 5-9, opposite, sessile, lanceolate, 2-4 ins. long, gland- 

 dotted, margin with a few small teeth : flowers small, 

 yellow, crowded on small velvety lateral branching 

 racemes, calyx 6-8 lobed, petals none, stamens 6-8 in 

 male flowers, one to five oblique one-celled carpels 

 in female flowers ; fruit of 1-5, small, pale, red, round 

 drupes, one seed in each carpel, black, shining, 

 used as a condiment ; the branches are used as 

 tooth brushes. 



PhyUaatliUS Parvi- see Shrubs, Alternate. Stipulate 

 foliUS, None. 



le, Petals 



( I'o be continued.) 



