Plants of the Punjab. 108 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE CoMPOUND LEAVES. 
Astragalus 
cicerifolius, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
Wiebe es lode 
Himalaya, 
10-17,000 ft. 
Astragalus 
multiceps, 
Kandiara, sarmul. 
LEGUMINOS&. 
Babs bom 8a: 
Himalaya, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Astragalus 
zanskarensis, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
PeBs Toy Ve4. 
Himalaya, 
10-14,000 ft. 
Astragalus 
leptocentrus, 
LEGUMINOS®. 
Rib: tee boo. 
Himalaya, 14,000 ft. 
PopD-BEARING PLANTS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
small, densely armed with the old leaf stalks, 3-6 
in. long; leaves 8-6 in. long, leaflets 4-3 in. long, 31-41, 
blunt, lanceolate with a broad tip, pale green, soon 
falling off, stipules lanceolate-; flowers 14 in. long, yellow, 
3-4,0n -shortly, stalked heads in the axils of leaves, 
calyx $ in. long, with a few black or brown hairs, teeth 
bristle-like, stamens 10, all united but the upper one; 
pod $-? in. long, oblong, densely silky, 2-celled, nar- 
rowed to the point, seeds 15-20. 
small, main stem very short, branchlets with tufts 
of leaves very close together, armed with the old leaf 
stalks 13-3 in. long ; leaves 13-3 in. long, stipules } in. 
long, lanceolate, leaflets 21-31, oblong-ovate with broad 
tip, +,-$ im. long, covered with grey silky hairs ; flowers 
1 in. long, yellow, one or two together in leaf axils, 
sessile or nearly so, bracts linear, § in. long, calyx } in. 
long, silky, teeth linear, bristle-like, stamens 10, all united 
but the upper one ; pod sessile, oblong, 4 in. long, covered 
with fine grey silky hairs, seeds 12-14. 
small, main stem short, branchlets with closely 
crowded leaves, lower parts armed with the old leaf stalks 
3-4 in. long ; leaves 3-4 in. long, lanceolate, leaflets 21-25, 
oblong, blunt, soon falling off, 4-2 in. long ; densely brown, 
silky velvet, stipules } in. long, flowers yellow, 14 in. 
long, in few- to six-flowered shortly-stalked heads, 
bracts linear, bristle-like, feathery, calyx 4-8 in. long, 
tubular, densely silky, teeth bristle-like, stamens 10, all 
united but the upper one ; pod shortly stalked, seeds up 
to 20. 
small, main stem lengthened, armed with the old 
leaf stalks, 2-3 in. long, velvety, branches velvety, branch- 
lets with closely clustered leaves ; leaflets 21-31, oblong, 
blunt, }-3 in. long, grey brown silky velvet on both sur- 
faces ; flowers 14 in. long, yellow, 1 or 2 together, 
without a stalk common to both, in the leaf axils, calyx 
4 in. long, densely silky, teeth linear, bristle-like, stamens 
10, all united but the upper one ; pod oblong, 4-3 in. long, 
sessile, silky, 2-celled, 12-14-seeded. 
