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Plants of the Punjab. 



Shrubs with Alternate Exstipulatb Simple Leaves. 



Rhazya stricta. 



Vena, gandera, 

 vargalum. 

 Apocynace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 640. 

 Salt Eange. 

 Peshawar. 

 Trans-Indus Plains. 



Nerium odorum, 

 Oleander, 



Kaner, ganliira. 



APOCYNACEiE, 



F. B. I. iii. 654. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 In dry ravines. 

 Hazara (Barrett). 



Petals united. 



small, smooth, stout, series of stems in clumps, milky- 

 juice from young parts ; leaves 3-4 by \-\ in., oblong- 

 lanceolate', short-pointed, sessile, leathery and yellow 

 when dry ; flowers white, in dense terminal short axillary 

 stoutly branched and shortly-stalked clusters, bracts 

 awl-Hke and persistent, calyx short, lobes 5, short-pointed, 

 corolla circular, tube cyhnclric, \ in., lobes 5, short, broad, 

 overlapping to the left, stamens 5, above the middle of 

 corolla tube, but not protruding ; folHcles 2, erect, 2-3 

 by \ in., shghtly flattened, rather leathery, seeds \ in. 

 long, angularly flattened, shortly winged. The leaves, 

 flowers and fruit are used in rheumatism and other joint 

 affections : the dried fruit is used to coagulate milk. 



medium size, bark silvery grey, from young parts 

 a milky juice exudes ; leaves in whorls of three, 4-6 by 

 |-1 in., linear, lanceolate, thick, leathery, long-pointed, 

 dark green, shining above, rough and dotted beneath, 

 stalk short ; flowers red, pink, or white, usually sweet- 

 scented, sometimes double, in large terminal branching 

 clusters, sepals broad, awl-pointed, corolla 1^ in. across, 

 funnel shaped, lobes spreading, rounded, overlapping to 

 the left, tube f in. long, 5 fringed scales on throat, stamens 

 inserted near the mouth of the tube forming a cone, each 

 prolonged up in a long thread-like hairy appendage ; folli- 

 cles narrow, 6-9 by \-\ in., straight, united below, seeds 

 many, crowned with a tuft of hairs. The leaves are poison- 

 ous to all animals but goats. An oil extracted from the root 

 bark is used in skin diseases, especially in leprosy. A 

 yellow resin present in this plant is an active heart poi- 

 son. 



Ehretia obtusif olia, 



Chamror, hari 

 kunder, khaharra. 

 Boraoinacb^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 142. 

 Salt Range. 



Heliotropium 

 zeyianicum, 



Heliotropium 

 dasycarpum, 



medium size ; leaves oblong-ovate, with broad blunt 

 tip, 1-lf in. long, wedge-shaped at the base ; flowers 

 larger than Ehrelia loevis, which see under Trees, Alter- 

 nate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Heliotropium 

 Eichwaldl, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



