Plants of the Punjab. 



48 



Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Walsura ternata, 



Meliacb^. 

 F. B. 1. 1 563. 

 The Plains at 

 Sheikhpura. ^ 



Cedrela Toona, 



TU71. 



Mbliaoe^. 



F. B. I. i. 568, 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. 



Cedrela serrata, 

 Hill Toon, 



Darli, chutisirin. 



MeLIACEjE. 



F. B. I. i. 568. 

 Himalaya, 3-8,000 ft. 

 Matiana, Sainj 

 (Collett)! 



Sapindus Mukorossi, 

 Soap-nut tree, 



Bitha, dodan. 



Sapindace^. 



F. B. T. i. 683. 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



Rhus semi-alata, 



Tekri, iitri, dudln. 

 kakkari. 



Anacardiaoe.e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 10. 

 Himalaya, 3-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, the Glen, 

 Mahasu (Collett). 



small ; leaves 8 in. long, leaflets 3, 4-5 by 1 in., 

 smooth, shining, white beneath ; flowers ^ in. long, 

 milk white in branching racemes, shorter than the leaves, 

 caylx short, 5-fid, petals 5, oblong, spreading, stamens 

 10, united below ; berry narrow, oblong, one-cellod 

 and one-seeded, seed enclosed in a fleshy appendage, 



large, bark smooth, dark grey, thin ; leaves with an 

 equal number of leaflets, 1-2 ft. long, leaflets 8-30, 

 with smooth margins, 2-6 by |-2| in., long-pointed ; 

 flowers small, cream coloured, sweet scented, in branch- 

 ing drooping racemes nearly as long as the leaves, sepals 

 5, blunt, hairy, petals 5, fringed with marginal hairs, 

 stamens 5, on fleshy hairy orange lobes ; capsule f-1 in. 

 long, oblong, dark brown, seeds with a membranous 

 wing at each end. This tree yields good red wood 

 much used for furniture. 



medium size, bark with regular longitudinal 

 cracks : leaves with usually an unequal number of 

 leaflets, 2-3 ft. long, leaflets 24-48, 3-8 by l-2i in., ovate, 

 long-pointed, margin toothed ; flowers in loose drooping 

 branching racemes, longer than the leaves, pink, sepals 

 5 or 6, often smooth, petals 5 or 6, smooth, stamens 5, 

 alternating with 5 staminodes ; capsules 1 in. long, ovoid, 

 pointed, dark grey, seeds winged only at the upper end. 



small, bark grey ; leaves even pinnate, 12-20 in. 

 long, crowded at the ends of branches, leaflets 10-20, 

 3|-6 by 1-2 in., smaller at the end of the leaf; flowers 

 -^^ in. long, white or purple in branching racemes, petals 

 4, as a rule fringed with hairs and with 2 woolly scales 

 on each side of the stalk, stamens 8, far protruding ; 

 fruit f-l in. long, fleshy, round, one-seeded, covering 

 saponaceous, wrinkled when dry, yellow, seed black, 

 loose in the fruit when dry. The fruit is commonly 

 used instead of soap for washing clothes. 



small, young parts grey velvety; leaves odd pin- 

 nate, 12-18 in. long, upper part of leaf stalk winged, 

 leaflets 9-18, lateral sessile, end one on a long winged 

 stalk, ovate, 2-5 in., closely and sharply toothed, lower 

 surface reddish- white, woolly ; flowers — in. diam., pale 

 yellow green, in large dense branched racemes, racemes 

 as long as the leaves, calyx small, 4-6 cleft, petals 8-5, 

 fringed with hairs, stamens 5 ; fruit a drupe J in. 

 diam., woolly, red-brown, acid, edible. 



