Plants of the Punjab. 



Trees with Opposite Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Fraxinus 

 xanthoxyloides, 



Hanuz, sliangal. 



Oleace^. 



F. B. I. iii. 606. 



Himalaya, 3-9,000 ft. 



Baluchistan 



(Boissier). 



Petals none. 



small ; leaves odd pimiate, leaflets 7-11, 2 by | in., 

 not long-pointed, teeth small ; flowers in veiy short 

 dense clusters, brown from woolly bracts, no calyx in 

 some flowers, petals none ; fruit as in the last species. 



Trees with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Bixa Orellana, 

 Arnatto, 



Latkan. 



BlXNBJE. 



F.B.Li. 190. 

 The Plains. 



Petals ununited. 



small, evergreen, young shoots rusty velvety ; 

 leaves 4-8 by 2|-5 in., smooth, long-pointed, stalk 2-3 

 in., slender, stipules minute ; flowers white or pink, 

 2 in. diam., in terminal branching racemes, sepals 5, 

 petals and stamens many ; fruit 1| in., ovoid, softly 

 prickly, seeds many in pulp. From this an orange dye 

 is extracted. 



Shorea robusta^ 



Sal. 



Dipterocarpe^. 

 F. B. I. i. 806. 

 Kangra Valley, 

 Himalaya to 3,000 ft., 

 east of the Sutlej river. 



large, young parts with greyish velvet, bark thick^ 

 dark grey, rough from irregular furrows ; leaves 6-10 

 by 4-6 in., ovate-oblong, long-pointed, smooth, stalk 

 1 in. long, stipules curved, | in. long, soon falhng off ; 

 flowers yellowish, shortly stalked in branching terminal 

 or axillary loose racemes, 5-9 in. long, covered with 

 greyish velvet, calyx and outside of petals with greyish 

 velvet, petals 5| in. long, orange within, tapering up- 

 wards, stamens 50 ; fruit ovoid, | in. long, with greyish 

 velvet attached to the enlarged sepals, which form 5 

 unequal wings, seed one. Wood and resin are valuable. 



Kydia calycina, 



see Tiees, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



Grewia oppositifolia, 



Behel. 

 Tiliace.e. 

 F. B. L i. 384. 

 Himalaya to 7,000 fl, 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



medium size, bark ash coloured, herbaceous parts 

 more or less with stellate hairs ; leaves 3 in. long in 

 two rows along branches, ovate, long-pointed, minutely 

 toothed, rough above, velvety beneath, stalks ^ in., 

 stipules more than | in., linear, soon falling off ; flowers 

 in short clusters, opposite to leaves, white to yellow, 

 sepals 5, linear, | in. long, 3-ribbed on the back, petals 

 5, half the length of the sepals, stamens many.; drupe 

 smooth or thinly hairy, fleshy, dark green, 1 to 4- 

 lobed, nuts one-celled, one-seeded, size of peas. 



