10 
Plants of the Punjab. 
TREES WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SimpLe LEAVES. 
Rhamnus dahuricus, 
or virgatus, 
Indian Buckthorn, 
Chato, kanjt. 
RHAMNER. 
BBL. 1. 689. 
Peshawar, Himalaya, 
4,500-9,000 ft. 
Hovenia dulcis, 
Chamhun, sicka. 
RHAMNE. 
¥F. B. 1.1. 640. 
Himalaya, 3-6,500 ft. 
Bauhinia retusa, 
Kural, kandla. 
LEGUMINOSH#. 
Bb. 1.14. 279. 
Himalaya to 4,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Prunus Amygdalus, 
The Almond, 
Badam. 
RosacEm. 
HID. 1.0103 
The Plains to 10,000 ft. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Prunus persica, 
The Peach, 
Aru. 
‘Rosacez. 
H.3, 1. 0,018. 
The Plains to 10,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, much branched, shoots abort and the end 
becomes dry, hard and pointed, thus forming a spine, 
two lateral shoots grow from below the spine, thus a 
spine is found in the fork between two branches and 
leaves clustered on the lower part of the spines, bark 
dark grey, thin, shining, peeling in rolls; leaves alter- 
nate, nearly opposite, ?-2 in. long, lanceolate, long-point- 
ed, stipules soon falling off, lmear, minute ; flowers 
greenish, in axillary clusters, sepals 4, petals 4, minute, 
linear, stamens 4; fruit } in. long, ovoid, seated on the 
persistent calyx, seeds grooved. In China Green Indigo 
is made from the bark. 
medium size, trunk straight ; leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., 
ovate, long-pointed, in two rows, toothed, woolly beneath, 
stalk $ in. long, stipules small, soon falling off; flowers 
white, in terminal and axillary clusters, sepals 5, petals 5, 
stalked, stamens 5, longer than the petals; fruit } in. 
diam., round, nearly 3-lobed, 3-celled and 3-seeded, 
the fruit stalk enlarges, becomes fleshy, tastes like a 
pear, edible. 
medium size, bark dark brown, generally scored by 
diagonal cuts, made to obtain the gum; leaves some- 
times cleft at the end, 4-6 in. diam., broader than long, 
velvety beneath, stalk 14-34 in. long ; flowers in terminal 
branching velvety racemes up to 12 in. long, flowers 
4 in. long, pale yellow with purple streaks, petals oblong, 
4in., stalked, stamens 10, only 3 perfect ; pod 4-6 by 14 
in., flat, reddish, seeds 6-8. 
small, bark brownish grey, smooth; leaves 3 in. 
long, oblong-lanceolate, minutely toothed, thin, stalk 4 
in. long, with two glands, stipules fringed ; flowers pink, 
stalked, # in. diam., appear before the leives, petals 5, 
stamens many, drupe 14 in. long, velvety, opening in two 
pieces, stone large, flattened, covered with shallow 
wrinkles and minute holes, seed flattened, long, oval, seed 
edible. 
small, bark brownish, rough, branches thick ; leaves 
3-5 by 3-14 in., oblong-lanceolate, small teeth, thicker 
than the last and darker green, stalk $ in., stipules 
fringed ; flowers 1 in. diam., sessile, dark pink, appear 
before or with the leaves, petals 5, stamens many ; drupe 
1 }-2} in. long, round or flattened, very velvety, not opening 
in two pieces, fleshy, edible, sweet, green with a tinge of red 
when ripe, stone deeply and irregularly furrowed, thick. 
