Plants of the Punjab. 



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Trees with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Pongamia glabra, 



Pajjar, karaiig. 



Leguminos^. 



F. B. I. ii. 240. 



The Plains to 2,000 ft. 



Pod-hearing. 



Pinnate with 5-many Leaflets. 



medium size, bark greyish green ; leaves 8-10 in. 

 long, leaflets 5-7, 2-4 in. long ; flowers -| in. long, whitish, 

 tinged with violet or pink in axillary racemes ; pod 

 1^-2 in. long, ^-^ in. thick, woody, with a curved point, 

 seed 1, 1 in. diam. Oil from the seeds is used for light- 

 ing and as a cure for skin diseases. , 



Leaves Bipinnate. 



Csesalpinia, or small, prickles on branches few and scattered ; 



Poinciana pulcherrima, pinnse 12-18, leaflets on the pinnse 20-24; flowers large, 



Krishnachura. scarlet yellow, calyx 5, cleft to base, petals 5, nearly 



Leguminos^. equal, stamens 10 ; pod nearly straight, 2-3 in. long, 



F. B. I. ii. 255. narrow and thin, seeds 6-8. A very showy tree. 

 The Plains. 



Parkinsonia aculeata, 



Vilayati kikar. 



Leguminos^. 



F. B. I. ii. 260. 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. 



Baluchistan (Stocks). 



small, sharp woody spines, the remains of the leaf 

 stalks of bipinnate leaves with 2-6 pinnse in the axils 

 of two stipulate thorns ; leaves bipinnate ; pinnse |-1 

 ft. long, stalks much flattened with or without minute 

 Leaflets ; flowers yellow, | in. diam., in short racemes, 

 calyx lobes nearly equal, petals equal ; pods 3-4 in. long, 

 like a necklace of beads. A native of Tropical America. 



Leaves Pinnate. 



Cassia Fistula, 

 Indian Laburnum, 



Amaltas. 



LBGUMINOSiB. 



F. B. Lii. 261. 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. 



Baluchistan 



(Hughes-Buller). 



Tamarindus indica, 

 Tamarind, 



Imli. 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 273. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Stocks). 



small ; leaves 1 ft. long., leaflets 2-6 in. long, stipules 

 minute, racemes as long as the leaves, pendulous ; flowers 

 1 in. long, yellow, petals broad, nearly equal, stamens 

 20 ; pods 1-2 ft. long, cyhndrical, 1 in. thick, seeds many, 

 embedded in sweet blackish pulp ; purgative. A very 

 handsome tree. 



large ; leaves 3-6 in. long, leaflets |- in. long, 20-30 ; 

 flowers pale yellow streaked with red in racemes, calyx 

 teeth 4, petals 3, |- in. long, starmns 3 ; pods 3-S by 1 in., 

 leathery, flattened, edible, seeds -| in. diam., embedded in 

 brown pulp, brown, shining. 



