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Plants of the Punjab. 
a > 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE CoMPOUND LEAVES. 
Indigofera trita, 
LEGUMINOS# 
HOB. f. 1. 96. 
The Plains. 
Psoralea plicata, 
Bakhtmal. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
eS; 1b. atl 08. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Tavernicra 
nummularia, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
Beeb. 1. 1. 140; 
The Plains. 
Rawalpindi. 
Kahuta. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Ebenus stellata, 
LEGUMINOS. 
FH, BL. 1.140. 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
PopD-BEARING PLANTS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS THREE. 
small, branches many, rigid, widely separating, thinly 
covered with grey hairs lying flat against the stem ; leaves 
with 8 leaflets, leaf stalk 4-2 im. long, stipules minute, 
bristle-like, leaflets oblong with a broad tip, lateral leaflets 
nearly sessile, 4-1 in. long, opposite, terminal leaflet 1-14 
in. long, stalked ; flowers 4 in. long, purplish red, on spike- 
like racemes, shorter than the leaves, 6-12-flowered, calyx 
zs-} in. long, grey, teeth bristle-like, corolla } in. long, 
stamens 10, all united but upper one, anthers with pointed 
tip ; pod 1-1} in. long, bending down or spreading, very 
firm, 4-angled, without contractions, pointed, 8-10 seeded. 
gmall, branches many, stems silvery, warty, branch- 
lets when bare somewhat spinous ; leaves shortly stalked, 
leaflets 8, 4-1 in. long, terminal leaflet largest, lateral 
ones oblique, blunt, margin wavy, gland-dotted béneath ; 
flowers 2-3 in. long, yellow in short-stalked racemes, 
bracts ovate, very minute, calyx 4 in., covered with white 
hairs, teeth short, the lowest is the longest, corolla slightly 
projecting beyond the calyx, stamens 10, all united but the 
upper one ; pod oblong, clasped by the calyx, one-seeded. 
small, branches many, slender, finely grey; leaves 
shortly stalked, stipules minute, lanceolate, thin and 
dry, leaflets 3, nearly round, }-1 in. long, oblong-ovate 
with broad tips ; flowers red, $ in. long, in racemes longer 
than the leaves, calyx }-4 in., thinly silky, stamens 10, 
united ; pod roundish, 1-4 seeded. This plant is found 
on stony ground. 
small, stellately hairy, covered with spreading erect 
thorns 1-} in. long; leaves odd pinnate, shorter than the 
spines, leaflets 3, lanceolate, }-? in. long, margins even ; 
flowers red, sessile, in crowded heads on axillary stalks, 
surrounded by lanceolate bracts, calyx 4} in. long, covered 
with long brown silky hairs, teeth bristle-like, feathery, 
corolla much shorter than the calyx, stamens 10, united 
except the upper one ; pod flat, oblong, thin, enclosed in 
the calyx tube, seed one. 
