Plants of ihe Punjab. 



109 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununted. 



Rosa Webbiana, 



Kugina, sihanda. 



EOSACE^. 



F. B. I. ii. 366. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-13,500 ft. 



medium size, smooth, prickles many, |-| in., straight 

 or curved with long bases, yellow ; leaves |-2 in., stipules 

 small, leaflets 4-10, oblong or round, ^-f in., base rounded ; 

 flowers 1-3 in. diam., pink, solitary, calyx round or oval, 

 bristly, lobes long-pointed, tips broad, persistent, petals 

 5, heart-shaped with the broad part at the tip, stamens 

 many, styles ununited ; fruit ovoid or round, |-1 in. diam., 

 crowned by the persistent calyx lobes ; achenes many, ^ 

 in. long, pale. 



Rosa sericea, 



ROSACE.E. 



F. B. I. ii. 367. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-13,000 ft. 

 Hattu, Baghi 

 (Collett). 

 Chor. 



small, branches quite smooth and unarmed or 

 prickly only or bristly and glandular, prickles |-1| in., 

 turned up, brown, broad, flattened ; leaves 1-3 in., close 

 set, stipules oblong, thin, with a short-pointed tip, leaf- 

 lets 7-9, oblong, acutely toothed towards the rounded tip, 

 silky beneath ; flowers 2-2| in. diam., solitary, white 

 or straw colour on short lateral shoots, calyx tube bristly 

 grandular, lobes 5, velvety, ovate-lanceolate, persistent, 

 petals 4, cordate with broad tips, stamens manj', styles 

 ununited ; fruit nearly round, or pear-shaped, silky or 

 smooth, crowned by the persistent calyx lobes ; achenes 

 few, I in. long. 



Aralia cachemirica, 



Banaklcor, churial. 

 Aealiace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 72-2. 

 Kashmir, 

 9-12,000 ft. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-8,000 ft. 

 Theog, Narkanda 

 (Collett). 

 Changlagalli (Douie). 



medium size ; leaves pinnate or bi- or tri-pinnate, end 

 pinna with 5-9 leaflets, leaflets 3|-1| in., oblong, long- 

 pointed, heart-shaped at the base, minutely toothed, 

 hairy above, smooth beneath ; flowers small, white, many, 

 in round umbels, in simple or branching racemes, small 

 or 12 in. long, calyx 5-toothed, petals 5, reflexed, stamens 

 5 ; fruit small, succulent ; drupe round, black, J-g- in. diam., 

 5-ribbed, containing 5 bony one-seeded nuts. 



Leea aspera, 



Kumala, holma. 



VlTACE^. 



F. B. I. i. 665. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Petals united. 



large, robust, branches grooved, spreading ; leaves 

 large, lower bipinnate, upper pinnate or the lower pinnae 

 8-lobed, leaflets 3-6 in. long, heart-shaped at the base, 

 oblong, sides not parallel, long-pointed, both surfaces 

 rough, round-toothed, stipules sheathing ; flowers yellow 

 green, small in spreading leaf-opposed, nearly smooth clus- 

 ters, calyx 5-toothed, petals 5, oblong, united and also to 

 the staminal tube, stamens 5, united below into a 5-lobed 



