120 Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
PETALS UNITED. 
Rhazya stricta, small, smooth, stout, series of stems in clumps, milky 
Vena, gandera, juice from young parts; leaves 3-4 by 4-2 in., oblong- 
vargalum. lanceolate, short-pointed, sessile, leathery and yellow 
APOCYNACER. when dry ; flowers white, in dense terminal short axillary 
F, B. I. ii. 640. stoutly branched and_ shortly-stalked clusters, bracts 
Salt Range. awl-like and persistent, calyx short, lobes 5, short-pointed, 
Peshawar. corolla circular, tube cylindric, 4 in., lobes 5, short, broad, 
Trans*Indus Plains. 
Nerium odorum, 
Oleander, 
Kaner, ganhira. 
APOOYNACER. 
F. B. I. ii. 654. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
In dry ravines. 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Ehretia obtusifolia, 
Chamror, bari 
kunder, khabarra. 
BoRAGINACH. 
Pep. iv 142. 
Salt Range. 
Heliotropium 
zeylanicum, 
Heliotropium 
dasycarpum, 
Heliotropium 
Eichwaldi, 
overlapping to the left, stamens 5, above the middle of 
corolla tube, but not protruding; follicles 2, erect, 2-3 
by } in., slightly flattened, rather leathery, seeds 4 in. 
long, angularly flattened, shortly winged. The leaves, 
flowers and fruit are used in rheumatism and other joint 
affections: the dried iruit is used to coagulate milk. 
medium size, bark silvery grey, from young parts 
a milky juice exudes; leaves in whorls of three, 4-6 by 
3-1 in., linear, lanceolate, thick, leathery, long-pointed, 
dark green, shining above, rough and dotted beneath, 
stalk short; flowers red, pink, or white, usually sweet- 
scented, sometimes double, in large terminal branching 
clusters, sepals broad, awl-pointed, corolla 14 in. across, 
funnel shaped, lobes spreading, rounded, overlapping to 
the left, tube ? in. long, 5 fringed scales on throat, stamens 
inserted near the mouth of the tube forming a cone, each 
prolonged up in a long thread-like hairy appendage ; folli- 
cles narrow, 6-9 by }-4 in., straight, united below, seeds 
many, crowned with a tuft of hairs. The leaves are poison- 
ous to all animals but goats. An oil extracted from the root 
bark is used in skin diseases, especially in leprosy. A 
yellow resin present in this plant is an active heart poi- 
gon. 
medium size ; leaves oblong-ovate, with broad blunt 
tip, 1-1% in. long, wedge-shaped at the base; flowers 
larger than HWhretia levis, which see under Trees, Alter- 
nate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, 
Entire. 
Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, | 
see Herbs, 
Eutire. 
Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
seo Herbs, Hrect, Alternate, 
Exstipulate, 
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