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Plants of the Punjab. 
TREES WITH ALTERNATE E;XSTIPULATE SIMPLH LEAVES. 
Elzeagnus hortensis, 
HKLAGNACER. 
f8.d-ve 201. 
Western Himalaya, 
6-7,000 ft. 
(Edgeworth). 
Baluchistan (Boissier). 
Putranjiva Roxburghii, 
Jiaputa, patajan. 
HUPHORBIACES. 
RB. ft v.336. 
The Plains to 2,500 ft. 
Valleys of the outer 
hills (Collett). 
Mallotus philippinensis, 
Rora, raini, rol. 
KUPHORBIACE. 
F. B. I. v. 442. 
Base of the Himalaya, 
Sutlej and Giri Valleys 
(Collett). 
Sapium insigne, 
Dudla, lendua. 
KuUPHORBIACE. 
bey. Att. 
Himalaya, 5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Sula 
(Collett). 
Myrica Nagi, 
Kaiphal. 
HS AsV. OO 
Himalaya, east of the 
Ravi river, 3-6,000 ft. 
Simla, the Glen 
(Collett). 
PETALS NONE. 
small, branches silvery with scales, often spinous, 
dark brown when older; leaves 1-3 in. long, oblong, 
ovate, blunt, silvery beneath, stalk } in. ; flowers §-} in. 
long, yellow, silvery, bell-shaped above, stalked, fragrant, 
solitary or in clusters of 38, calyx of 4 triangular, 
ovate teeth, soon falling off, stamens 4, on the mouth 
of the calyx, alternating with the lobes ; fruit ? in. long, 
oblong, red, dry or fleshy, stone thick, bony. 
medium size, bark dark grey, nearly smooth with bori- 
zontal lines of white dots, handsome tree; leaves 2-3 in. 
long, evergreen, dark green, shining, margin wavy, ovate ; 
flowers, male nearly sessile in clusters (female stalked, in 
pairs or solitary), yellow, small, calyx 3-5-lobed, sta- 
mens 3, female flowers calyx 5-6 lobed, styles 3; fruit 
din. long, ovoid, stone very hard, pointed, wrinkled, made 
into necklaces for fa/z7rs or infants. 
medium size, bark thin, dark grey, young branches 
rusty ; leaves 3-5 in. long, velvety beneath with crimson 
glands, stalk 2-3 in. long; flowers in brown red spikes, 
minute, calyx 3-lobed, stamens 20-380 on a central re- 
ceptacle, no petals; capsules 4-$ in. diam., 38-lobed, 
covered with crimson powder ; seeds round, 7, in. diam., 
smooth, black. The crimson powder is called Kamela 
and used as an orange dye and as a vermifuge. 
small, bark grey, corky, juice thick, milky, branches 
thick, soft, branchlets leafy at the tips; leaves 6-12 
in. long, oblong, long-pointed, soft, smooth; flowers 
yellow green in long fleshy terminal spikes, male flowers 
in circular clusters, calyx 2-lipped, deeply cleft, stamens 
2, short, top scarlet, female flowers nearly sessile, soli- 
tary, calyx 2-3-cleft, ovate, long-pointed, styles 3, short, 
recurved ; capsule ovoid, 4 in. long, obscurely lobed on a 
fleshy spike. 
small, bark brownish-grey, rough, vertically wrinkled, 
branchlets velvety ; leaves 8-7 in. by 1-2 in., leathery, 
with aromatic dots beneath; flowers in bracteate 
cylindric catkin-like spikes, male flowers with 8-6 stamens 
in axils of broad bracts, female with 2 styles in glan- 
dular bracts ; fruit # in. long, ovoid, succulent, edible, 
pulp of red spindle-shaped fibres, radiating from the 
wrinkled nut. The bark is used as a stimulant, car- 
minative and astringent. This tree is akin to Myrica 
Gale, Sweet Gale of Britain. 
