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Plants of the Punjab. 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals united. 



tube, style short ; berry | in. diam., nearly round, flattened 

 at the top, 3-6-celled and seeded, black, succulent, edible, 

 seeds wedge-shaped. 



Zanthoxylum 

 alatum, 



Tejhal, timni. 



RuTACEiE. 



F. B. I. i. 493. 

 Himalaya to 

 6,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kasauli. 

 Hazara (Barrett). 



Petals none. 



large, strongly aromatic, bark corky, strong prickles 

 on the branches, leaf stalks and midribs of leaves and 

 leaflets, branclilets dotted with white specks ; leaves un- 

 equally pinnate, 2-6 in. long, two stipular spines-at the 

 base of the winged leaf stalk, leaflets 5-9, opposite, 

 sessile, lanceolate, 2-4 in. long, gland-dotted, margin 

 with a few small teeth ; flowers small, yellow, crowded 

 on small velvety lateral branching racemes, calyx 6-8 

 lobed, petals none, stamens 6-8 in male flowers, 1 to 5 

 oblique one-celled carpels in female flowers ; fruit of 1-5, 

 small, pale, red, round drupes, one seed in each carpel, 

 black, shining, used as a condiment ; the branches are 

 used as tooth brushes. 



Phyllanthus 

 parvifolius, 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, Petals None. 

 Shrubs with Alternate Exstipulatb Simple Leaves. 



Anona squamosa, 

 Custard Apple, 



Sharif a, siia'phal. 



ANONACEiE. . 



P. B. I. i. 78. 

 The Plains as far 

 north as Gurdaspur 

 (Watt). 



Farsetia 

 Jaequemontii, 



Faridmuli, lalhia. 

 Crucifer;e. 

 F. B. I. i. 140. 

 The Plains in sandy 

 places, Sirsa. 



Petals ununited. 



large, nearly evergreen ; leaves 2-3 by |-1| in., ob- 

 long, blunt or long-pointed, base narrowed, bluish-green 

 beneath, velvety when j^oung, membranous, stalked ; 

 flowers 1 in. long, white, solitary on short branchlets, 

 sepals 3, small, triangular, united at the base, petals 3, 

 outer 1 in. long, narrow-oblong, fleshy, inner 3 minute 

 or wanting, stamens many, style one ; fruit 2-4 in. across, 

 yellowish-green, fleshy, edible, covered with a yellowish- 

 green skin, tubercled like crocodile skin, seeds many, oblong, 

 brownish-black, with a swelling at the notch.- A native 

 of the West Indies, cultivated for its fruit. 



small, branches rigid, hoary, with hairs flattened 

 to the twigs, twiggy ; loaves |-1 in., linear ; flowers large, 

 in spikes, sepals 4, hairy, pointed, pouched at the base, 

 petals 4, half as long again as the sepals with long stalks ; 

 stamens 6 ; capsules l|-2 in. by |-| in., flattened, linear, 

 scissile, valves flat, seeds nearly round, broadly winged, 

 in two series. 



