N. 0. ROSAOiE. 519 



A shrub or moderate-sized tree, unarmed or spinescent, 

 young shoots pubescent. Wood reddish brown, hard, very 

 close-grained, warps and splits. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, serrate or more or less pubescent beneath, along the nerves ; 

 petioles shorter than greatest breadth of leaf, stipules linear, 

 fimbriate. Pedicels slender, 3 or 4 times the length of Calyx, 

 solitary or fasciculate from lateral, often leaf-bearing buds, 

 Calyx-tube campanulate. Drupe globose or oblong, pericarp 

 fleshy. 



The plum. 



(I) Var. Domestica. 



Vern.: — Olchi, er, aor(Pb.) 



A small, rigid, much-branched shrub. Branches without 

 pines always smooth, straight. Bark brown. Leaves ovate 

 lanceolate, a little pubescent and in pair. Calyx velvety 

 inside, flowers white appearing together with or a little before 

 the young leaves. Drupe 1-1 -J in, diam ; black. 



Commonly wild and cultivated in Kashmir and Afghanistan. 

 Madden states that it is also cultivated about Almora. 



The dried drupes are demulcent and laxative ; rarely em- 

 ployed alone for medicinal purposes. The pulp forms an 

 ingredient of Confectio Sennae , the Eleetuarium lenitivvm of 

 the old Pharmacopoeias. The fruit, stewed and sweetened, 

 is used as a domestic laxative (Pharmacographia), 



(IT.) Var. Insititia. 



Syn : — P. bokhariensis Linn and P. aloocha, Boyle. 



Vern.: — Aloo-bokhara (Hind., Bom., and Pers.) ; Alpogada 

 pazham (Tarn.). 



Western temperate Himalaya, cultivated or indigenous, 

 from Garhwal to Kashmir, 5,000 to 7,000 feet in altitude. 



Var,: — Insititia, Linn. 



Syn.:—¥. insititia, Linn. 



P. bokhariensis and P. aloocha, Roxb. 



Shrubby, unarmed or spinous. Leaves obovate ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, serrulate, obtuse, acute or cuspidate, nerves hairy 



