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the axils of leaves, bracts linear, minute, pedicels shorter than flower. Sepals 

 ovate, two narrower than the others, petals oblong, more than twice the 

 length of sepals, disk distinctly 5-lobed. Drupe glabrous, brown, shining, 

 £ in. diam. 



North-West Himalaya, Sutlej to Nepal, 2-5,000 ft. Pachmarhi lulls, Centr. Prov. 



0.51111- I nun |i . Kaluga hills. Godaveri district. I'l. May June. 3. R. paniculata, Wa II., 

 Bhutan. Upper Burma, on the Shan hills and in the dry region of the Irawadi valley, 

 often in Eng forests. A small tree, unarmed, glabrous, leaflets entire or slightly sinu- 

 ate-lobed, the terminal 3-5 in. long, the lateral smaller, see. n. prominent beneath. 



Rajputana; Ambon i, 



Fie. Si. — Rhus mysorensis, 

 Heyne. A. 



4. R. mysorensis, Heyne. Vern. Dasni, Danonia 

 Poona. 



A small, aromatic, often gregarious shrub i a 

 small tree or large shrub, Talbot List Gl). 

 Branches stiff, spinescent, leaflets deeply den- 

 tate or lobed, the terminal 1-1\ in. long, the 

 lateral smaller, all sessile or nearly so. Disk 

 indistinctly 5-lobed. 



Siud, eastern Hank of the Suleiman range. Raj- 

 put ana. Dry districts of the Punjab and the Deccan. 

 I"l. February-June. Bark used f'>r tanning. 



C. Leaves imparipinnate, panicles terminal. 



5. R. semialata, Murray ; Brandis F. PI. 

 119.— Syn. /,'. Bucki-amelce, Roxb. ; Wight 



Ic. t. 561 ; /.'. javanica, Kurz F. PI. i. 319. 

 Vern. Tekri, Titri, Titrai, Arkhol, X.W. Him, 

 A middle-sized or small deciduous tree, resin- 

 canals in the bark filled with white milk, 

 which is sticky, but does not turn black. 

 Branchlets, petioles, underside of leaves and 

 inflorescence clothed with short, soft, brown- 

 ish-grey pubescence. L. not aromatic, leaflets 



4-G pair, opposite, dentate, teeth large, triangular, often sharp, lateral leaflets 

 sessile, i lie terminal "ti a marginate petiolule. upper part of common petiole 

 generally marginate or winged. Panicle large, nearly as long as the upper 

 leaves, branches spreading. Fl. white or pale yellow-green, drupe tomentose, 

 edible. 



Outer Himalayan ranges, 3-6,000 it. Assam, Kha-i and Naga hills. Shan hills, 

 Upper Burma. Martaban. PI. April-September. The leaves turn red before they fall. 

 Galls of various -ha pes frequent on the branches. China, Japan. 



ti. R. punjabensis, J. L. Stewart: Brandis P. PI. L20. Vern. Titri, 

 Titrai, X.W. Him. : Rashta, Hash. 



A small or middle-sized tree, deciduous, heart w 1 greenish-yellow, the annual 



rings marked by a narrow belt of vessels, old bark brownish, with rectangu- 

 lar plates, milk watery, not sticky, does not turn black. Branchlets, petioles 

 and inflorescence clothed with minute soft pubescence. Leaflets ."> i> pair, op- 

 posite or nearly opposite, entire or with a few teeth near the apex, common 

 petiole no) marginate. Panicles compact, broad, shorter than leaves, iii fruit 

 generally bent down, ramifications rusty tomentose. drupe ; in. diam., clothed 

 with dark red velvet, pulp acid, made into sherbet. 



Nori h-Wci Himalaya, Kashmir to Kumaon 8-8,500 ft., more frequent towards the 

 interior. I'l. May July. A species very similar and possibly identical with ti is not 

 uncommon in I Ihina. 



A species with terminal panicles, possibly new, has been found by E. M Buchanan 

 at S 5,500 ft. in the Ruby Mines district, rjpper Burma. Leaflets 8 I pair, ovate- 

 lanceolate, pubescent beneath, blade 8 6, petiolule } in., 8. pedicellate,' in general 



appearance similar to /,'. Qriffithii, Hook. f. 1'Y. unknown, hence not named, 



