702 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 

 Pod Bearing Plants. 

 Petals Dissimilar, Upper one Largest. 

 Leaflets Three. 



Fiptantlms nepalen- 

 siB, 



LE«UMINOSiE. 



B\ B I. ii. 62. 

 Himalaya, 7-9,000 ft. 



Argyi-olobixim 



cidum, 



Leguminos^. 



F. B. I. ii. 63. 



The Plains to 9,000 ft, 



Ononis hircina, 

 Leguminos^. 

 F.B.I, li. 85. 

 Himalaya, 5-7,000 ft. 



Indi^ofera trita, 



LkGDMlNO-iE. 

 F. B. I. i. <t6. 

 The Piaius. 



large, bark green ; leaves of three digitate leaflets, 

 stalk f - 1 i ims. long, stipules small, united, broadly 

 triangular^ velvety, soon falling off, leaflets sessile. 

 2-4 by ^-1 in., lanceolate, long-pointed ; flowers yellow 

 1-H ins. long, crowded in hairy racemes 4-5 ins. long, 

 bracts ovate, felted, soon falling off, calyx felted, 

 bell-shaped, two upper teeth broad, three lower 

 narrow, divided nearly to the base, petals all stalked, 

 1 in, long, stamens 10, ununited ; pod 3-5 by \-^ in., 

 flat, stalked, seeds 3-10. 



fl^g. small, covered with densely silky hairs ; leaves of 

 three digitate leaflets, leaf stalk short, stipules minute, 

 linear, leaflets pale, silky, nearly equal, lanceolate 

 shortly pointed, |-f in. long ; flowers small yellow, 

 few in short racemes on stalks longer than the leaves, 

 calyx deeply two-lipped, upper lip two-toothed, lower 

 three-toothed, teeth narrow, petals smooth, hardly 

 longer than the calyx, stamens lO, united ; pod |-1 

 in. long, densely silky 6-8 seeded. 



small, velvety stems ; leates with three pinnate 

 leaflets leaf stalks short, stipules large, leafy, attached 

 to the leaf stalk, leaflets oblong, blunt, toothed ; 

 flowers reddish in pairs, forming a close terminal 

 leafy raceme, calyx bell-shaped, § in. long, teeth 

 linear, longer than the tube, petals stalked, stamens 

 10, united ; pod oblong, downy, not protruding from 

 the calyx, '2-3 seeded. 



small, branches many, rigid, widely separating, 

 thinly covered with grey hairs flattened against the 

 stem ; leaves with three leaflets, leaf stalk \ | in. 

 long, stipules minute, bristle-like, leaflets oblong with 

 a broad tip, lateral leaflets nearly sessile, ^-1 in. long, 

 opposite, terminal leaflet, 1-1 s in. long, stalked; 

 flowers purplish red. ^ in. long on spike-like racemes, 

 shorter than the leaves, 6-l2-flowered, calyx j^ ^ in. 

 long, grey, teeth bristle-like, corolla \ in long, stamens 



