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Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Gymnosporia or 
Celastrus montana, 
Talkar, mareila, 
sherawane. 
CELASTRINES. 
i. Bs 4: i. 621. 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Rhus Cotinus, 
The wig tree, 
Venetian Sumach, 
Tung, bhan, tittri. 
ANACARDIACER. 
BeBe 7.09 
Himalaya, 
3-5,000 ft. 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Crotalaria Burhia, 
Khip, sis, kharsan. 
LEGUMINOS™®. 
P. BL... 663 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Sargodha (Douie). 
Crotalaria albida, 
LEGUMINOS™. 
Bs 70. 71, 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
large, branches stiff and nearly straight, spines axillary, 
straight, 1-2 in. long, often bearing leaves and flowers, 
leaves 1-8 by 4-2 in., linear, ovate to roundly ovate, 
minutely toothed or not, leathery, flowers small, greenish- 
white, axillary or on the spines, much branched 
clusters, shorter than the leaves, bracts, calyx lobes and 
petals fringed, fruit round or ovoid, black, size of a pea, 
1-8-celled, cells one-seeded ; in other respects like the ast 
species. 
large, bark reddish-brown, branchlets red, young 
parts grey woolly; leaves 2-4 by 14-3 in., stalks, 13-3 
in. long, ovate or round. polished above, slightly woolly 
beneath ; flowers very small, =’; in. diam., pale yellow, 
few on very slender long stalks forming loose feathery, 
pale purple bunches, sepals linear, oblong, petals. longer 
than the sepals, stamens 5, styles 8 ; drupe } in. long, com- 
pressed, reddish, covered with white hairs. The wood 
under the name of Young Fustice is much used in Europe 
for dyeing wool scarlet or orange. The bark and leaves 
are used for tanning. 
_ Small, branches numerous, stiff, ending sometimes 
in spines, with fine pale felt; leaves 1-11 in. long, few, 
scattered, almost sessile, silky, ovate or lanceolate ; flowers 
yellow, 6-12, in terminal racemes, flower stalks very short 
with 2 bracteoles, calyx densely silky, teeth lanceolate, 
corolla yellow with reddish veins, hardly protruding, 
stamens 10, united, style long, hairy above : pod 2-4-seeded, 
hardly longer than the calyx, oblong, hairy. The fibre 
is sometimes used in place of hemp. 
small, branches many, firm, round, slender, somes 
what silky ; leaves nearly sessile, 1-2 in. long, firm, gland- ~ 
dotted, beat oblong, smooth above, silky beneath ; 
flowers } in. long, pale yellow, usually in terminal racemes, 
calyx top-shaped, } in. long, thinly silky, longer in fruit, 
teeth long, 8 lower linear, 2 upper broader and_ blunter, 
corolla pale yellow, rarely tinged with lilac, hardly pro- 
truding, stamens 10, united, style long, hairy above 
pod 4- in. long, sessile, twice as long as the calyx, smeoth, 
oblong, seeds 6-12, ' 
