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Plants of the Punjab. 
TREES WITH ALTERNATE HXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Pieris ovalifolia, 
Adan. 
ERICACER. 
F. B. I. iu. 460. 
Himalaya, 3-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Rhododendron 
arboreum, 
Burans. 
ERICACES. 
F. B. I. ii. 465. 
Himalaya, 5-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Mesa indica, 
MYRSINACEH. 
Boe. F240. 509. 
The Plains to 6,000 ft. 
Ambala District, Simla 
(McIntire). 
Reptonia buxifolia, 
Mimusops Elengi, 
Maulsari. 
SAPOTACES. 
F, B. I. iii. 548. 
The Plains, 
planted. 
Rohtak, in the 
Public gardens. 
Mimusops hexandra, 
Kirm. 
SapoTACh”. 
F. B. I. iti. 549. 
The Plains. 
PETALS UNITED. 
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small, bark thick, deeply furrowed, peeling in 
narrow flakes; leaves 3-7 by 1-4 in., ovate, smooth ; 
flowers 1-4 in. long, white, bell-shaped, bracteolate in 
narrow bracteate racemes, 4-10 in. long, calyx teeth 5, 
triangular, corolla lobes 5, recurved, stamens 10, with 
2 filiform tails; capsules 4 in., round, smooth, splitting 
into 5 valves, seeds minute, many, linear, oblong. 
small, bark reddish brown, thick, furrowed, peeling 
in narrow flakes; leaves 5 by 14 in., often clustered 
- at the ends of branches, oblong, narrowed at both ends, 
pointed, whitish, felted beneath, sometimes. brown ; 
flowers 1-14 by 2-1 in., red, widely opened in dense 
clusters, caylx lobes ;, in. wide, ovate, corolla bell-shap- 
ed, lobes 5, stamens 10; fruit a capsule,1 by 4 in., 
cylindrical, curved with longitudinal ridges. 
small, branches long and straggling; leaves 5 by 
13 in., leathery, pointed, margin toothed ; flowers white, 
small, in branched racemes, calyx lobes 5, blunt, corolia 
5-lobed, twice the size of th> calyx, stamens 5, short ; 
fruit a round berry, about the size of a pepper corn, fleshy, 
juicy, pinkish white when ripe, crowned with the calyx, 
seeds many, hollowed out at the base. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
large, young shoots, flowers stalk and outside of 
calyx covered with rusty velvet; leaves 3} by 1? in., 
smooth, short-pointed, usually crowded at the end of 
branchlets, small processes, almost stipules, at base of 
very young leaf stalks ; flowers white, fragrant, in clus- 
ters, calyx with 8 segments in two series, outer 4 brown, 
inner 4 white, corolla lobes 16-20, in two series, narrow- 
pointed, stamens 8, staminodes 8, all hairy ; berry 2-1 in., 
ovoid, 1-rarely 2-seeded, yellow ; edible. 
large ; leaves 3-4 by 14-2 in., scattered, leathery, 
smooth, dark green, broad tip, apex notched or rounded ; 
flowers whitish yellow, } in. across, in short stalked 
clusters along the branches as well as at the ends, 
calyx segments 6, corolla lobes 16-20, stamens 6-8, 
staminodes 6-8, smooth, often 2-pointed, berry 4 by 
i in., 1-rarely 2-seeded ; edible. 
