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Plants of the Punjab. 97 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES.’ 
Desmodium 
conecinnum, 
LEGUMINOSAE. 
Hebe Diy P70: 
Himalaya, 
1-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Desmodium 
polycarpum, 
LEGUMINOS®. 
Hepy bait 71. 
The Plains to 
5,500 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Desmodium 
triflorum, 
Desmodium gyrans, 
The Telegraph or 
Semaphore Plant, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
PCBs Dyn V7ee 
Himalaya, to 
7,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Pop-BEARING PLANTS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS THREE. 
upper one ; pod sessile, $-# in. long, ;4, in. broad, 6-8 joint- 
ed, woolly with minute hooked hairs, upper margin slight- 
ly, lower deeply indented. 
large, branches drooping, velvety; leaves 2}-4 in. 
long, leaflets 8, green, smooth above, grey hairy beneath, 
end leaflet 2-3 in. long, longest ; flowers dark, + in. long, 
blue, in lateral and terminal racemes, calyx ;', in., corolla 
1-1 in., stamens 10, all united but the upper one; pod 
3-1 in. long, 4 in. broad, shortly stalked, curved, 4-6 joint- 
ed, downy, upper margin wavy, lower deeply notched, 
upper margin of each joint hollowed out. 
small, branches angular, slender, hairy ; leaves 14-4 
in. long, leaflets 8, broadly ovate, nearly smooth above, 
hairy pale beneath, end leaflet 1-2 by }-1 in., blunt; 
flowers. + in. long, purple or white, racemes terminal 
or lateral, shortly stalked, 1-8 in. long, calyx }, in., teeth 
long-pointed, corolla less than } in., stamens 10, all united 
but the upper one; pod 4-2 in. long, 4 in. broad, 5-8 
jointed, straight, hairy, upper margin straight, lower 
slightly notched. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 
pound. 
small, branches nearly cylindric, smooth; leaves 
84-44 in. long, leaflets 3, oblong-lanceolate, blunt, end 
one 2-4 by 3-1 in., lateral leaflets often one or both wanting, 
1 in. long, moving by jerks, especially in sunlight ; flowers 
1 in. long, pale yellow, in axillary or terminal racemes, 
8-6 in. long, buds in pairs, enclosed in the bracts, calyx 
=i in., teeth triangular, corolla } in., side petals tinged 
with pink or blue, stamens 10, all united but the upper 
one ; pod sessile, 1-14 by 4-1 in., curved like a sickle, 6-10 
jointed, upper margin even, lower slightly notched. 
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