Plants of the Punjab. 



81 



Teebs with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Semecarpus 

 Anacardium, 

 Marking nut tree, 



Bliilawa. 



Anacardiace.e. 



F. B. I. ii. 31. 



The Plains to 3,500 ft. 



Barringtonia 

 acutangula, 



Samundar iilial, jujar. 

 Myrtace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 508. 

 The Plains. 



Careya arborea, 



Kumhi. 



Myrtace^. 



F. B. I. ii.511. 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. 



Marlea begonisefolia, 

 Cornus macrophylla, 

 Cornus oblonga, 



Saurauja napaulensis, 



Gogina . 



TERNSTRCEMIACEiE. 



F. B. I. i. 286. 

 Himalaya, east of the 

 Ravi, 2-4,500 ft. 

 Dharmsula (Douie). 



Petals ununited. 



medium size, bark exudes a dark acrid juice, young 

 parts, leaf stalks, under surface of leaves and flower 

 stalks covered with pale velvety down ; leaves 9-30 by 

 5-12 in., flat, leathery, oblong, tip rounded, margin 

 cartilaginous, stalk 1-2 in., clustered at the end of 

 branches ; flowers greenish- white, |-| in. diam., in erect 

 terminal branching racemes, calyx 5-lobed, petals 5, 

 stamens 5-6, bracts lanceolate ; fruit 1 in. long, ovoid, 

 smooth, black in a fleshy orange-red cup, seed one. The 

 acrid juice of the fruit is used for blistering and to simu 

 late bruises, also to mark linen. 



small ; leaves 5 by 2 in., crowded at the ends of 

 branches, short stalked, minutely toothed ; flowers 

 deep pink in long hanging racemes, racemes often 1 ft. 

 long, calyx lobes 4, petals 4 or 5, small, stamens red, 

 far protruding, many ; fruit 1-1| by |-f in., 4-angled, 

 equally narrowed to each end, crowned by the calyx, 

 seed 1, ovoid, 1 in. long. 



medium size, bark dark grey, peeling in narrow 

 strips ; leaves 6-12 by 3-6 in. broad, rounded at the apex, 

 smooth, minutely toothed flowers 3-4 in. diam., scattered 

 on spikes, calyx bell-shaped, lobes ovate, 4, petals 4, 

 If- in. long, white, soon falling off, stamens red, many, 

 in several series ; fruit round, 2-3 in. diam., crowned 

 by a pit with the calyx teeth round it, seeds f-| in., 

 oblong with rounded ends. 



see Trees, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Trees, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Trees, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Petals united. 



medium size, branches usually brown with whitish 

 tubercular dots, young parts and stalks covered with 

 scurfy felt ; leaves 10-15 by 3-4 in., narrow, oblong, 

 '•ounded at the base, long-pointed, sharply toothed, 

 smooth above, rusty felted beneath, stalk 1-1| in. ; 

 flowers I in. diam., pink, in axillary stalked branching 

 racemes, sepals 5, -J in., petals 5, united at the base, re- 

 curved at the point, stamens many, styles 5 ; fruit green, 

 mealy inside, edible, sweet, seeds many, minute, red- 

 brown. 



