Plants of the Punjab. 95 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE StTIPULATE ComMPpoUND LEAVES. 
Uraria neglecta, 
(of Prawn). 
LEGUMINOS®. 
Ware 1.17156. 
Himalaya, 
1-3,000 ft. 
(Duthie). 
Desmodium 
laxiflorum, 
LEGUMINOSA. 
B.D. ns 164, 
Himalaya to 
6,000 ft. 
Kangra (Duthie). 
Desmodium 
podocarpum, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
Beas. Vat G5. 
Himalaya, 
2-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
POD-BEARING PLANTS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS THREE. 
medium size, slender, velvety, branches woody ; 
this plant is like Uraria lagopus but differs in its 
foliage, bracts and pods; leaves of one leaflet (simple) 
or three, leaflets 8-5 in. long, ovate-oblong, net-veined, 
entire, blunt-pointed or notched, rarely short-pointed, 
base rounded, smooth above, velvety. beneath, terminal 
leaflet largest, stalked, lateral leaflets nearly sessile, 
stipules long-pointed from a broad base, hairy ; flowers 
$-4 in., purple, many on long hairy stalks, crowded 
in cylindrical terminal racemes, 8-6 in. long and about 
1 in. broad, bracts overlapping in bud, ovate with a hard 
sharp point, hairy, soon falling off, calyx + in., hairy, teeth 
feathered, lower long, stamens and style like the last 
species ; pod smooth ; otherwise like the last species. 
medium size, branches somewhat angled, covered with 
short hairs ; leaves 4-6 in. long, leaf stalk 1-2 in., stipules 
lanceolate, long-pointed, leaflets 8, ovate, pointed, some- 
times broad at the tip and blunt, thin or almost lea- 
thery, smooth above, flattened hairs beneath ; flowers 
small, white, tinged with blue, many in axillary and 
terminal racemes, the terminal often 12 in. long,. 
bracts minute, linear, awl-like, calyx ; in. long, hairy, 
teeth lanceolate, longer than the tube, stamens 10, all 
united but the upper one ; pod 1-14 in. long, covered with 
minute hooked hairs, slightly contracted at the joints, 6-10 
joints, flattened joints easily breaking and catching on 
to clothes by the hooked hairs. 
small, branches velvety, angular; leaves 8-6 in. 
long, stalk 1-3 in. long, stipules small, bristle-like, leaf- 
lets 8, thin, 2-3 in. long, both surfaces nearly smooth, 
lower pale, ovate, with a broad tip, pointed, end leaflet 
roundish, somewhat pointed, with a triangular base; 
flowers } in. long, pink, in drooping racemes, few flowered, 
terminal racemes 12 in. long, much branched, bracts 
minute, linear, calyx ,'; in. long, teeth triangular, very 
short, corolla 4 in., stamens 10, all united but the upper 
one ; pod $ in. long with 1-2 joints, joint + in. long, upper 
margin of pod straight, lower deeply indented, 
