Plants of the Punjab. 
Suruss witH ALTERNATE EXXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Sareocoeca 
pruniformis, 
KUPHORBIACE. 
es. ey. 266. 
Himalaya, 
5-9,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Murree. 
Flueggia microcarpa, 
HuUPHORBIACES. 
H.B. 1. vy. 328. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Flueggia Leueopyrus, 
HuPHORBIACES. 
F. B. 1. v. 828. 
The Plains. 
Salix hastata, 
Juniperus communis, 
Juniper, 
Patthar, lewar, 
pam. 
CoNIFERS. 
F. B. I. v. 646. 
Himalaya, 
5-14,000 ft. 
Hattu (Collett). 
The Chor 
( Bambey). 
PETALS NONE. 
small, smooth, evergreen, branches green, rounded ; 
leaves 3-4 by 4-1 in., nearly sessile, lanceolate, long-pointed, 
dark-creen, margin smooth ; flowers 4 in. long, pale yellow 
in short axillary racemes, in male flowers sepals 4, oblong, 
blunt, stamens 4, in female flowers sepals 4-6 of small over- 
lapping scales, styles 2, long, recurved ; fruit 4 in. long, 
ovoid, purple, stones 2-3. 
large, smooth, branchlets angled, flattened; leaves 
in 2 rows, 1-3 in. long, shortly stalked, ovate or round, 
thin; flowers minute, yellow-green, in dense axillary 
clusters on separate stalks, male and female flowers on 
different plants, male sepals 5, round, oblong, concave, 
spreading, stamens 5, opposite sepals, around 3 styles, 
long, lmear, erect, female shortly stalked in clusters of 
8-6, sepals erect, 5, styles 3-4, reflexed and each divided 
into 2 or 3, pointed narrow lobes ; fruit 4-5 in. diam., dry, 
afew 4 in., white, fleshy, minutely dotted, seeds 8-6, 
minutely dotted. 
like last species, but branches twisted, spinous, 
leaves smaller, 1 in. long at most, longer stalked. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
small, dense, erect, prostrate at high elevations, 
greyish-green ; leaves }-? in., linear, straight in threes, 
pointed, concave above, convex below, male cones } in. 
long, many, ovoid, female cones minute, bud-like, consist- 
ing of many overlapping bracts, fruits compound like 
a berry, purple black with a bloom, the bracts just visible, 
seeds 8. The berries are used in the distillation of gin, 
also ag a diuretic: the wood and leaves are burnt in the. 
Punjab for incense. 
