Sagebetia] BHAMyF.JE. 167 



obovate or olilong, entire or serrate, tomentose beneath. Flowers few, 

 fascicled in the leaf axils, shortly pedicelled, 4-merous. Petals small, 

 linear. Drupe obovoid-glohose, -g m. long, 2-4-celled, 1 or 2 of the cells 

 often abortive. 

 Dehra Dun, scarce. Distbib. : Punjab, on the Sulaiman and Salt ranges, 

 Tropical W. Himalaya eastward to Garhwal, up to 5,00u ft., and in W. 

 Tibet up to 14,000 ft.; also in Baluchistan, Afghanistan and Persia. 

 Flowers March to May. Leafless for several months The small black 

 sweetish fruit is used medicinally. This species is closely allied to B. 

 oleoides, a native of S. Europe and N, Africa. 



2. R. virgata, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i, 639 ; Roijle III. 169. E. dahurica, Pall, 

 Beise in, 721 (dauurica) ; F. B. I. i, 604; Watt E. D. 



A shrub or small tree with many long straight branches forming a dense 

 crown. Bravchlets generally spinescent. Leaves sub-opposite or fascicled 

 on congested branchlets, 1-i in. long, variable in shape from ovate or 

 obovate to lanceolate, narrowed into a petiole 5-^ in. long, glabrous ; late- 

 ral nerves 3-6, arcuate. Flowers greenish, 4-merous, crowded in the axils 

 of fascicled leaves, or at the base of branchlets. Petals minute, linear 

 or spathulate. Style filiform, 2-4-cleft, branches recurved. Drupe 2-3- 

 celled, obovate-orbicular, -§■ in. long. 8eeds grooved. 



Dehra Dun. Disteib. : Punjab at Peshawar, Temp. Himalaya up to 

 9,500 ft.. Ghats of S. India (var. hirsuzus of W. & A.) ; also in China and 

 Japan. Flowers April to June. The bitter emetic and purgative fruit is 

 used medicinally. Closely allied to the European /i.cat/tarttcws, to which 

 Aitchison's Kurram Valley specimens, named by him ' E. dahuricus,' 

 have been referred by Boissier. 



3. R. triquetra. Brand. For.-Fl. 92; R. triqueter, Xaiis. in F. B.Li., 

 639 ; Watt K. D. Ceanothus triquetrus, Wall, in Boxh. Fl. Lnd. {ed. Carey) 

 ii, 376 ; Boyle III. 169. Vern. Gaunt (Dehra Dun). 



An unarmed deciduous shrub or small tree. £arfc scabrous with elevated 

 specks. Young branches tomentose. Leaves 3-6 in. long, ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate, serrate, usually yellow, glabrescent above, finely pubescent 

 beneath ; lateral nerves prominent, parallel, nearly straight ; petioles 

 about I in. long. Flotcers 5-merous, in sessile cymes forming interrupted 

 racemes, often with foliaceous bracts. CahjX'lohes triang-ular. Petals 

 clawed, emarginate, sheathing the stamens. Style 3-4-cleft, branches 

 cohering. Drupe j in., 3-lobed. Seeds grooved on the back. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. Distbib. : Punjab, on the Salt range, W. 

 Himalaya from the Jheiam eastward to Kumaon, up to 6,010 ft. 

 Flowers in July and August. The yellowish-coloiired wood is hard and 

 close-grained. 



5. SAGERETIA. Brcngn. ; Fl. Brit. lnd. i. 641. 



Unarmed or spinous sbrubsj with slender subscandent or rigid 

 opposite or suboppo^ite branches. Leaves snbopposite, penninerved, 

 nerves arched. Flower.^ very small, sessile on the terminal leafless- 



