Plants of the Punjab. 58 
| SHRUBS WITH OpposITE ExsTIPULATE SimpLe LEAvEs. 
Melastoma 
Malabathricum, 
Indian 
Rhododendron, 
MELASTOMACES. 
Be Bake i. 529. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Woodfordia 
floribunda, 
Dhan, dhanla. 
LYTHRACES. 
Webs n. 572, 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(C. B. Clarke). 
Lawsonia alba, 
Henna, Camphire, 
Mehnde. 
LYTHRACER, 
eb kei ole. 
The Plains to 5,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Lagerstroemia indica, 
China erape, 
Saonm, dhaura. 
LYTHRACER. 
BBs eS. 
The Plains. 
Puniea Granatum, 
Pomegranate, 
Anar. 
LYTHRAOBA. 
F. B. I. ui. 580. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
large, stems with short dense hairs; leaves 3-4 in., 
broad-lanceolate, with hairs above and below; flowers 
1-5, clustered, mauve-purple, calyx tube with simple 
hairs, lobes 5, long, soon falling off, petals 5, stamens 10, 
anthers alternately purple with a long curved process 
above; fruit $ in. wide, short, ovoid, abruptly ended, 
becoming pulpy within, seeds many, minute, curved. 
A purple dye is made from the fruit. 
large, branches long, arching, bark reddish-brown, 
peeling in fibres, young branches and leaves with numer- 
ous black dots ; leaves 2-4 in. sometimes in threes, sessile. 
lanceolate, tapering to a fine point, upper surface green, 
lower white, velvety with black dots; flowers in shortly 
stalked clusters on and around branches, bright red, calyx 
red, teeth 6, petals 6, red, scarcely longer than the calyx 
teeth, stamens red, long, protruding ; capsule 2 in., en- 
closed in the clayx. The flowers are used as a dye and as 
an astringent, containing much tannin. 
medium size, bark thin, greyish-brown, branchlets 
angular, sometimes spinous ; leaves 3-1 in. long, oblong, 
acute at both ends or the tip blunt, margin smooth, 
leathery ; flowers 4+ in., greenish-white, in large terminal 
branching racemes, sweet scented, sepals 4, petals 4, 
wrinkled, stamens 8, inserted in pairs between the petals ; 
capsule + in. diam., round with persistent calyx, leathery, 
seeds many, smooth, angular, pyramidal. The leaves are 
used to dye the hands, feet and hair red. 
medium size, bark ight brown, very smooth, peeling 
in dark coloured scurfy pieces; leaves 2 in. long, upper 
alternate, smooth, oblong, sessile, short-pointed ; flowers 
13-2 in. diam., bright pink or white in branching racemes, 
calyx tube smooth, teeth 6 or 7-9, petals $-2 in. long. 6 
or 7-9, stalked, much curled, stamens many, long ; capsule 
z in. diam., nearly round, calyx long, triangular, erect on 
the capsule, seed } in. with wing. 
large, bark dark grey, branchlets often spinous ; leaves 
1-25 in. long, sometimes hardly opposite or clustered, 
oblong, blunt, narrowed to a short stalk with a margin, 
smooth, shining ; flowers vivid red, sessile, solitary or 8 
together, calyx greenish-red, 1 by 4 in., tubular, fleshy, 
with 5-7 points, petals 5-7, 3-1 in. long, thin, wrinkled, 
bright red, stamens many ; fruit 14-34 in. diam., round, 
with a thick reddish-brown leathery rind, crowned by the 
