Plants of the Punjab. 



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Trees with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Pithecolobium dulce. 



Vilayati imli. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 302. 

 The Plains. 



Pyrus Aucuparia, 

 Rowan, Mountain Ash, 



Battal, rungrek. 

 Kosace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 375. 

 Himalaya, 11-13,000 ft. 

 Hattu;Collett). 



Pyrus foliolosa, 



Sulia, hulia. 

 Eosace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 376. 

 Himalaya, 9-12,000 ft. 

 Hattu (Collett). 



Petals ununited. 



Pod-bearing. 



Flowers in Bound Heads. 



small ; leaves and branches smooth, stipules 

 spinous, minute, pointing upwards ; pinnae 2, leaflets 

 2, 1-2 in. long, obtuse ; heads dense, |-| in. broad, in long 

 branched racemes of minute white flowers ; pod twisted 

 when ripe into a circle, 4-5 in. long, indented between the 

 seeds, which are embedded in white pulp ; sweet, edible. 



Not Pod-hearing. 



Fruit Bound or Pear-shaped. 



small, young parts with white cottony wool, some- 

 times persisting on stalks of leaves and flowers ; leaves 

 4-6 in. long, pinnate, leaflets 15-25, |-2 in. long, sharply 

 toothed, white beneath ; flowers pink, |-^ in. diam., 

 crowded in branching clusters nearly at the same level, 

 petals 5, stamens many, styles 2-5, base woolly ; fruit red, 

 round, ^-| in. diam., crowned with the persistent calyx. 



small, hairy, red brown down on leaf and flower 

 stalks ; eaves 4-6 in. long, pinnate, leaflets 20-30, 1-1| 

 in. long, sharply toothed ; flowers greenish-white, I in. 

 diam., odour unpleasant, crowded in downy branching 

 clusters with linear bracts, nearly at the same level, 

 petals 5, stamens many, styles 2-5 ; fruit round or ovoid, 

 red with blue bloom, 



J-| in. diam. 



Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Petals ununited. 



Cocculus laurifolius, 



Tiljphara. 

 Menispermace^. 

 F.B.Li. 101. 

 Himalaya to 5,000 ft. 

 Suni (Collett). 



Tamarix articulata. 



Far ash. 



TAMARISCINBiE. 



F. B. L i. 249. 

 The Plains 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



small, branches hanging down, angled, branchlets 

 bearded at the base ; leaves 3-6 in. long, dark green, ta- 

 pering from both ends, shining ; flowers in racemes with 

 branching stalks, shorter than the leaves, minute, sepals 

 6 in 2 series of 3, petals 6, 2-lobed, stamens 6 ; drupe 

 minute, black, | in. diam., generally 3, depressed lateral- 

 ly, stone horseshoe-shaped, keeled and with tubercles. 



small, looks something like a fi •, branches jointed ; 

 leaves minute, pressed against branch, apex triangular, 

 scale-like, sheathing, often white with saline efflore- 

 scence ; flowers in slender spikes collected in terminal 

 blanching racemes, pink, ^ in. diam., sepals and petals 5, 

 stamens 5 ; capsule 3-5 valved, seeds small with a tuft 

 of long hairs. 



