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Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Cajanus indicus, 
Pigeon pea, 
Arhar dal. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
1 Te ol We 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Rhynchosia 
Pseudo cajan, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
He, 1. i: 228. 
Himalaya, 
3-9,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
Hazara, Murree. 
Indigofera tinctoria, 
The Indigo Plant, 
Nil. 
LEGUMINOS&. 
YW. B. I. ii. 99. 
The Plains. 
Pop-BEARING PLANTS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS THREE. 
medium size, much cultivated as a food-grain, branches 
many, grooved, silky; leaflets 3, oblong-lanceolate, 
pointed, densely silky beneath, stipules minute, lanceolate ; 
flowers 3 in. long, yellow, streaked with red veins. in 
branching axillary or terminal racemes, calyx } in., 
corolla 2 in., stamens 10, all united but the upper one; 
pod 2-3 in. long, finely downy, often marked with reddish- 
purple streaks, seeds 3-5, the size of a small pea, yellow 
and red to brown or black. This plant is cultivated for 
its excellent pulse. 
medium size, branches slender, twiggy, white-felted, 
longitudinally ribbed ; leaves 1-3 by 1-4 in., grey green, 
velvety above, white woolly beneath, leaflets 8, 4-2 by 
4-14 in., lateral sessile, terrhinal stalked, largest, ob- 
long, apex triangular, stipules minute, soon falling off ; 
flowers 4 in. long, yellow, in short-stalked close axillary 
clusters, calyx 2 in., 5-toothed, lowest tooth longest, linear 
bristly, all densely woolly, corolla 3-2 in., stamens 10, all 
united but one, the uppermost ; pod 1 by 2 in., straight, 
flattened, grey woolly, 1-2-seeded. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
medium size, cultivated, branches twiggy, tough, 
angular, thinly covered with silvery hairs, lying flat against 
the stem; leaves 2-8 in. long with a stalk 4-1 in. long, 
stipules minute, awl-like, leaflets 7-13, shortly stalked, 
f-1 in. long, ovate-oblong, or nearly circular, waxy 
bluish-green above, silvery beneath, bristle like ; flowers 
reddish-yellow, very small on stalked, erect, spike-like 
racemes, many-flowered, shorter than the leaves, bracts 
awl-shaped, calyx 1. in., silvery, teeth as long as the tube, 
corolla longer than the calyx, stamens 10, all united but 
the upper one, anthers with pointed tip; pod 1-1} in. 
long, ;'s in. thick, nearly smooth, 8-12-seeded, without 
contractions. This plant yields the indigo of com- 
merce, 
