Plants of the Punjab. 119 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE HixsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Myrsine semiserrata, 
Parwana, gogsa. 
gaunia. 
MyYRrSINE®. 
Hee lm. OL). 
Himalaya, 
3-9,000 ft. 
Simla, The Glen 
(Collett). 
Embelia robusta, 
Bayabirang. 
MyYRSINE. 
Beep ato. oLoe 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft., near 
the Jumna. 
Ardisia humilis, 
MyYRSINEA. 
Bebe es S29; 
The Plains to 
5,000 £t. 
Reptonia buxifolia, 
Gurgura. 
MyYRSINE. 
FOB. Tein: 534. 
Peshawar. 
Salt Range. 
Trans-Indus Hills, 
2-3,000 feet. 
PETALS UNITED. 
large, bark ashy, smooth; leaves 2-5 by 4-11 in., 
smooth, leathery, ianceolate, sharply-toothed towards 
the tip, gland dotted, stalk +,-} in. long ; flowers in axillary 
clusters, stalks 4 in. long, calyx and corolla 4- rarely 
5- lobed, ='; in. diam., stamens 4, rarely 5, style with 2-4 
flat spreading branches ; berry red, round, 3-1 in. diam. 
large, bark brown with horizontal cracks on the 
branches, and small warty excrescences ; leaves 33-7 by 
2-3; in., oblong or lanceolate with broader tip, base 
narrowed, margin undulate, short-pointed, rusty velve- 
ty beneath, nerves prominent, stalk glandular, usually 
grooved ; flowers small, in simple or clustered racemes 
of 1-2 in. in length. calyx 5-lobed, persisten', petals 5, 
oblong, reflexed, stamens 5 on the petals styles short, 
persistent ; fruit a dry berry, red, round with ribs and 
crowned by the style; seed usually one, round, with a 
hollow base. ‘The fruit is used for the same purpose as 
that of Myrsine africana. 
large, smooth, branched ; leaves 4-8 by 14-84 in., 
oblong or ovate with broad tip, short-pointed, leathery, 
fleshy, margin smooth ; flowers pink, $ in. diam., in axil- 
lary clustered racemes, stalks 1-2 in. long, bracts soon 
falling off, calyx lobes 5, blunt, oval, corolla 5-lobed, 
stamens 5; fruit, round, black when ripe, size of a pea, 
crowned with the style, full of pink juice, seed one. 
large, spinous or not, branches grey; leaves 14 by 
2 in., shortly-stalked, ovate with a broad blunt tip, base 
narrowed, margin smooth, recurved, leathery, smooth 
above, slightly velvety beneath ; flowers small, greenish- 
yellow, sessile in axillary tufts, calyx lobes 5, round, 
overlapping, corolla tube short, lobes 5, oblong, blunt, 
stamens 5, alternating with 5 processes ; fruit }-4in. diam., 
round, fleshy, edible, one- or rarely two -seeded, seed round 
with hollowed base. 
