N. 0. R0SA0*. 
519 
A shrub or moderate-sized tree, tinarmed 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. 
Fern.: — 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. Ca'lyx velvety 
inside, flowers white appearing together with or a little before 
the young leaves. Drupe 1-1 1 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 Electuarium lenitivum of 
the old Pharmacopoeias. The fruit, stewed and sweetened, 
is used as a domestic laxative [Pharmaeographia). 
(IT ) Var. Insititia. 
Syn : — P. bokhariensis Linn and P. aloocha, Boyle. 
Venn.: — Aloo-bokhark (Hind., Bom., and Pers.) ; Alpogada 
pazham (Tam.). 
Western temperate Himalaya, cultivated or indigenous, 
from Garhwal to Kashmir, 5,000 to 7,000 feet in altitude. 
Var.: — Insititia, Linn. 
Syn.:—P. 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 
