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Plants of the Punjab. 



Trees with Alternate Exstipulase Simple Leaves. 



Pieris ovalifolia, 



Ailan. 

 Ericace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 460. 

 Himalaya, 3-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Rhododendron 

 arboreum, 



Burans. 

 Ericace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 465. 

 Himalaya, 5-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Petals united. 



small, bark thick, deeply furrowed, peeling in 

 narrow flakes ; leaves 3-7 by 1-4 in., ovate, smooth ; 

 flowers -i-^ in. long, white, bell-shaped, bracteolate in 

 narrow bracteate racemes, 4-10 in. long, calyx teeth 5, 

 triangular, corolla lobes 5, recurved, stamens 10, with 

 2 filiform tails ; capsules | in., round, smooth, sphtting 

 into 5 valves, seeds minute, many, linear, oblong. 



small, bark reddish brown, thick, furrowed, peeling 

 in narrow flakes ; leaves 5 by 1| in., often clustered 

 at the ends of branches, (fblong, narrowed at both ends, 

 pointed, whitish, felted beneath, sometimes brown ; 

 flowers I-I7J- by |-1 in., red, widely opened in dense 

 clusters, caylx lobes ^ in. wide, ovate, corolla bell-shap- 

 ed, lobes 5, stamens 10 ; fruit a capsule, 1 by | in., 

 cylindrical, curved with longitudinal ridges. 



Maesa indica, small, branches long and stragghng ; leaves 5 by 



MyrsinacejE. 1| in., leathery, pointed, margin toothed ; flowers white, 



F. B. I. iii. 509. small, in branched racemes, calyx lobes 5, blunt, corolla 



The Plains to 6,000 ft. 5-lobed, twice the size of th' calyx, stamens 5, short; 



Ambala District, Simla fruit a round berry, about the size of a pepper corn, fleshy, 



(Mclntire). juicy, pinkish white when ripe, crowned with the calyx, 



seeds many, hollowed out at the base. 



Reptonia buxifolia, 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Mimusops Elengi, 



Maulsari. 

 Sapotace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 548. 

 The Plains, 

 planted. 

 Eohtak, in the 

 Public gardens. 



large, young shoots, flowers stalk and outside of 

 calyx covered with rusty velvet ; leaves 3| by If in., 

 smooth, short-pointed, usually crowded at the end of 

 branchlets, small processes, almost stipules, at base of 

 very young leaf stalks ; flowers white, fragrant, in clus- 

 ters, calyx with 8 segments in two series, outer 4 brown, 

 inner 4 white, corolla lobes 16-20, in two series, narrow- 

 pointed, stamens 8, staminodes 8, all hairy ; berry |-1 in., 

 ovoid, 1-rarely 2-seeded, yellow ; edible. 



Mimusops hexandra, 



Kirni. 

 Sapotace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 549. 

 The Plains. 



large ; leaves 3-4 by l|-2 in., scattered, leathery, 

 smooth, dark green, broad tip, apex notched or rounded ; 

 flowers whitish yellow, J in. across, in short stalked 

 clusters along the branches as well as at the ends, 

 calyx segments 6, corolla lobes 16-20, stamens 6-8, 

 staminodes 6-8, smooth, often 2-pointed, berry | by 

 J in., 1-rarely 2-seeded ; edible. 



