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Plants of the Punjab. 



Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Schleichera trijuga, 

 The Lac tree, 



Gosum, kussumh, 

 samma. 

 Sapindaob^. 

 F.B.Li. 681. 

 The Plains, east of 

 the Sutlej river. 



Pistacia integerrima, 



Kakkar, sarawan, 

 gurgu. 



Anacardiace^. 

 F. B. Lii. 13. 

 The Plains, Peshawar, 

 Salt PiaHge, Himalaya, 

 1,500-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



bark grey, peeling in irregular pieces, red inside ; 

 leaves with an equal number of leaflets, 8-16 in. long, 

 pink when young, dark green when old, leaflets 4-8, 

 2-9 by l|-3^ in., the terminal pair much the longest, 

 oblong or ovate ; flowers yellowish-green in drooping 

 racemes at the ends of branches, calyx 4-6 cleft, small, 

 stamens 6-8, longer than calyx, hairy, petals none ; 

 fruit dry, pointed, smooth or spinous, |-1 in. long, seeds 

 1 or 2 in a pulpy appendage, edible, pleasant acid flavour. 

 Lac is produced on this tree by the Coccus lacca insect. 



bark rough, grey, large crooked galls, kakrisingi, 

 form on the leaves in autumn and are sold as medicine ; 

 leaves 6-9 in. long, odd or even pinnate, leaflets 8-12, 

 3-6 by 1-lf in., very long-pointed, smooth ; flowers small, 

 red, male and female on separate trees, no petals, 

 in lateral branching racemes appearing with the young 

 leaves which are also red, in male flowers calyx 5-cleft, 

 very small, stamens 5-7, female flower calyx 4-cleft, 

 lobes soon falhng off, styles 3, recurved ; drupe I in. 

 diam., broader than long, wrinkled, grey when ripe, 

 seed with a membranous coat. The heart wood is used 

 for carving and furniture. 



Engelhardtia 

 Colebrookiana, 



Timar rakh. 



JUGLANDE^. 



F. B. I. V. 596. 

 Himalaya, east of 

 Chenab, to6,000ft. 



small, bark grey, shoots woolly ; leaves 8-12 in. long, 

 odd pinnate, leaflets 6-11, end one smallest, often want- 

 ing, lateral nearly opposite, shortly stalked, 3-5 Jn. 

 long, woollj'" beneath ; flowers in spikes, small, green, 

 males in slender catkins, calyx 4-5-fid, stamens 4-5, 

 nearly sessile, females in pendulous spikes, 3 large un- 

 equal bracts, calyx 4-toothed, hairy, petals none, style 

 of 2-4 branches ; fruit a small round nut, l-l in. diara., 

 hairy sesfted on a 3-lobed bract. 



