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Plants of the Punjab. 
TREES WITH ALTERNATE EXxsTIPULATE CoMPOUND LEAVES. 
Schleichera trijuga, 
The Lac tree, 
Gosum, kusswmb, 
samma. 
SAPINDAOCBS. 
F. B. I. 1. 681. 
The Plains, east of 
the Sutlej river. 
Pistacia integerrima, 
Kakkar, sarawan, 
gurgu. 
ANAOARDIAOCER. 
Hebei, 13. 
The Plains, Peshawar, 
Salt Range, Himalaya, 
1,500-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Engelhardtia 
Colebrookiana, 
Timar rakh. 
JUGLANDES. 
F. B. I. v. 596. 
Himalaya, east of 
Chenab, to 6,000 ft. 
PETALS NONE. 
bark grey, peeling in irregular pieces, red inside ; 
leaves with an equal number of leaflets, 8-16 in. long, 
pink when young, dark green when old, leaflets 4-8, 
2-9 by 14-34 in., the terminal pair much the longest, 
oblong or ovate; flowers yellowish-green in drooping 
racemes at the ends of branches, calyx 4-6 cleft, small, 
stamens 6-8, longer than calyx, hairy, petals none ; 
fruit dry, pointed, smooth or spinous, ?-1 in. long, seeds 
1 or 2 in a pulpy appendage, edible, pleasant acid flavour. 
Lac is produced on this tree by the Coccus lacca insect. 
bark rough, grey, large crooked galls, kakrisingt, 
form on the leaves in autumn and are sold as medicime ; 
leaves 6-9 in. long, odd or even pinnate, leaflets 8-12, 
8-6 by 1-12 in., very long-pointed, smooth ; flowers small, 
red, male and female on separate trees, no petals, 
in lateral branching racemes appearing with the young 
leaves which are also red, in male flowers calyx 5-cleft, 
very small, stamens 5-7, female flower calyx 4-cleft, 
lobes soon falling off, styles 8, recurved; drupe } in. 
diam., broader than long, wrinkled, grey when ripe, 
seed with a membranous coat. The heart wood is used 
for carving and furniture. 
small, bark grey, shoots woolly ; leaves 8-12 in. long, 
odd pinnate, leaflets 6-11, end one smallest, often want- 
ing, lateral nearly opposite, shortly stalked, 8-5 in. 
long, woolly beneath; flowers in spikes, small, green, 
males in slender catkins, calyx 4-5-fid, stamens 4-5, 
nearly sessile, females in pendulous spikes, 3 large un- 
equal bracts, calyx 4-toothed, hairy, petals none, style 
of 2-4 branches ; fruit a small round nut, 4-4 in. diam., 
hairy. seated on a 3-lobed bract. 
