Plants of the Punjab. 81 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Cydonia vulgaris, 
The Quince, 
Bihi. 
Rosacea. 
FP. B. I. 11. 369. 
The Plains to 
5,500 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Cratzegus crenulata, 
Gingaru. 
RosacEm. 
F. B. I. ii. 384. 
Himalaya, 
2,500-8,000 ft. 
Cotoneaster 
bacillaris, 
Reus, kherbaba. 
RosacE#. 
Beebe tit, SO4. 
Salt Range, 
1,500-2,500 ft. 
Himalaya, 
4-10,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Murree. 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Cotoneaster 
acuminata, 
Dev-reus, rauns. 
RosacEm. 
F. B. I. ii. 385. 
Himalaya, 
4,500-12,000 ft. 
Hattu (Collett). 
Chor Peak. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, bark black, branches many; leaves 
with smooth margin, stipules ovate, uneven-sided ; flowers 
solitary, white or pink, large, woolly, bracts leafy, toothed, 
sepals club-shaped, large, spreading, toothed, petals 5, 
stamens 20, styles 5 ; fruit like an apple, dented at the top 
and bottom, firm, fleshy, astringent, fragrant, 5-celled, 
seeds many. The seeds, Bihidanah or Behdanah, are used 
in Indian medicine as a demulcent in dysentery and an oil 
is also expressed from the seeds. 
large, spiny, rigid, evergreen ; leaves 1-2 in., linear 
oblong, blunt, minutely toothed, shining, very leathery, 
stipules soon falling off; flowers white, 4-4 in. diam., on 
slender stalks in short, many-flowered clusters at the end 
of branchlets, calyx lobes 5, blunt, petals 5, round, stalked, 
stamens many, carpels 5; drupe round, + in. diam., 
orange-red, crowned with the calyx, 5 bony one-seeded 
nutlets. 
large, bark bluish-grey, branches long, slender, used 
for walking sticks, hence the specific name; leaves 1-34 
by 2-12 in., ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, sharp-or blunt- 
pointed, narrowed into the stalk, smooth above, downy 
beneath, margin flat, stalk + in., stipules minute, bristle- 
like, very soon falling off; flowers white, 4 in. diam., in 
large, hairy or downy branched-clusters on short lateral 
leafy branchlets, calyx smooth, 5-toothed, petals 5, round, 
stamens 20, styles 2-5, free; fruit round, } in. diam., 
2-celled, dark brown to black, crowned by the calyx. 
Variety—C. affinis or rosea like the above, but woolly 
under the leaves and on the calyx, petals pink. 
large, bark shining, dark bluish-grey, branches long, 
slender; leaves 1-24 by 4-2 in., ovate-lanceolate, long- 
pointed, silky beneath, margin hairy, flat, stipules minute, 
bristle-like, soon falling off; flowers white, } in. diam., 
solitary or in hairy small, nearly sessile, clusters on short 
lateral leafy branchlets, calyx 5-toothed, reddish inside, 
petals 5, round, stamens 20, styles 2-5; fruit top-shaped, 
4 in. long, bright red when ripe, crowned by the calyx. 
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