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Plants of the Panjab. 
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SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Reinwardtia trigyna, 
and 
R. tetragyna, 
Bush flax, 
Basant, bal basant. 
LINACE. 
F. B. I. 1. 412. 
Himalaya, 
8-6,000 ft. 
Rawalpindi. 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Zizyphus Jujuba, 
Zizyphus 
nummularia, 
Jhar-bert. 
RHAMNACEA. 
Bas l1,-6e8. 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Lace). 
Zizyphus vulgaris, 
Sinjr. 
RHAMNACEA. 
OB. 1.685. 
The Plains to 
6,500 ft. 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Rawalpindi. 
Baluchistan. 
(Boissier). 
Zizyphus oxyphylla, 
Phitni. 
RHAMNACE®. 
F. B. I. i. 664. 
Himalaya, 1-7,000 ft. 
Simla, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Rawalpindi. 
Baluchistan 
(Lace). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, tufted, erect, also with prostrate, stout, soft, 
rooting branches ; leaves 1-3 in., narrowed into slender 
stalks, rounded and short-pointed tips, or lanceolate, long- 
pointed with minute teeth, stipules minute, awl-shaped, 
and soon falling off ; flowers 1 in. across, yellow, in axillary 
or terminal clusters, sometimes solitary, look like prim- 
roses, sepals 5, green, lanceolate, long-pointed, petals 5, 
twisted, soon falling off, much longer than the sepals, 
stamens 5, united below with alternating staminodes, 
styles 3-4; capsule papery, size of a pea, much shorter 
than the sepals, splitting into 6-8 cells, seeds eurved. 
A good border plant, stands clipping. 
gee Trees, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
thorny, branches grey, branchlets in two rows, hairy 
when young ; leaves 4-1 in. long, ovate to round, minutely 
toothed, dark green and velvety above, pale and densely 
woolly beneath, stipules are two prickles, one straight. 
slender, the other bent down, hooked ; flowers small, yellow- 
green in axillary short clusters, which are less than } in., 
petals 5, bent down, stamens 5, styles 2-3; fruit round, 
red or black, fleshy, nearly 4 in. diam., with a woody 2- 
celled stone, this sweet acid fruit is eaten. 
large, branches spreading and stiff, often without 
thorns ; leaves 3-24 in., ovate, rounded at both ends, finely 
toothed, smooth on both sides, stipular prickles, two 
stout, one straight, 1 in. long, the other curved ; flowers few, 
greenish, clustered, axillary, petals 5, hood-shaped but 
bent down, stamens 5, styles 2-3; fruit round or oblong, 
succulent, red or black, shining. “ 
medium size, bark brown, thin; leaves 1-2 by #-1} 
in., ovate-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, finely toothed, thin, 
smooth, stalk slender, stipular, prickles two, slender, one 
straight, } in. long, the other curved ; flowers in clusters 
in axils of leaves, greenish. petals 5, stamens 5, styles 
2; drupe fin. long, ovoid, fleshy, 2-seeded, rarely one- 
seeded, black, very acid, stone thin, flatcened. 
