Plants of the Punjab. 19 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATH SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Uraria lagopus, 
Alysiearpus 
vaginalis, 
Alhagi maurorum 
or 
camelorum, 
Jawasa. 
LEGUMINOS®. 
Boba, L452 
The Plains. 
Salt Range. 
Kashmir to 3,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Desmodium 
gangeticum, 
Salpan. 
LEGUMINOS&. 
BeBe lou. 168. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Desmodium 
latifolium, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
Ws Be We i 768; 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Prunus prostrata, 
Paltu, tara, ter. 
Rosacea. 
#: Bel ous Slee 
Himalaya, west of 
Sutlej, 5-10,000 ft. 
PHTALS UNUNITED. 
seo Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, Leaf- 
lets Three. 
seo Prostrate Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
small, with many axillary hard sharp thorns 4-1 in. 
long ; leaves 4-4 in. long, ovate-oblong, tip rounded with 
a fine bristle, leathery, stiff, drooping from the base of the 
spines or branchlets, stipules minute, awl-shaped ; flowers 
reddish, on short stalks, 1-6 from a spine, calyx +,-} in., 
smooth, corolla nearly 4 in., stamens 10 in 2 bundles of 
1 and 9; pod about 1 in. long, curved, constricted between 
the seeds, smooth, seeds 6-8. Manna, a sugary gum, 
exudes when the leaves appear, and forms small tears 
which are shaken off and eaten. This manna does not ap- 
pear on the plants in India, but in Afghanistan and Persia. 
small, stems woody, slightly angular, branches grey 
felted ; leaves 3-6 by 14-3 in., oblong, rounded at the 
base, smooth above, grey-haired beneath, stalk 4-1 in., 
stipules } in., linear ; flowers + in., white or lilac, in crowded 
axillary and terminal racemes, 6-12in. long, calyx minute, 
teeth 5, lanceolate, petals 5, projecting outside the calyx, 
standard petal broad, wing petals 2, adhering to the two 
united petals (keel), stamens 10, 1 free, 9 united, style 
incurved at the end ; pod 4-2 in. long, curved, lower border 
deeply indented, joints 6-8, one-seeded, covered with minute 
hooked hairs. The plantis used in Indian medicine as a 
febrifuge. 
like the last, but more erect, branches brown-felte(, 
leaves ovate, thicker, brown-felted beneath, flowers purple, 
joints of pod 4-6. 
medium size, scragey, branches grey, spreading, 
erect or prostrate; leaves 4-1 in., ovate-oblong, rounded 
tip, toothed, smooth above, white and woolly beneath, 
narrowed into the short stalk ; flowers red, nearly sessile, 
solitary or clustered, appearing with the leaves, calyx tube 
+ in., cylindric, with 5 oblong blunt lobes, petals 5, round, 
longer than the calyx, stamens many, style one; fruit 4 
in., ovoid, purplish-red, hardly edible, dry, stone one. 
