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Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Mimosa rubicaulis, 
Shiah kanta, ral. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
BB sk. 12291; 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Rawalpindi. 
Valley below Murree. 
Mimosa hamata, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
B. B. ..41.-291- 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Spireea vestita, 
Spirzea Aruncus, 
Spireea sorbifolia, 
Rosacnm. 
FP. B. 1. 1. 824. 
Himalaya, 
7-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Hazara (Barrett). 
PoD-BEARING PLANTS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
FLOWERS IN SPIKES OR SMALL ROUND HEADS. 
large, branches reddish when young, straggling, 
slender, grooved, grey downy, armed with many small 
hooked spines ; leaves bipinnate, 6-9 in., mid-rib prickly, 
stipules awl-shaped, pinne 8-12, 1-2 m. long, bristle- 
like gland between each pair, leaflets 20-24, + in. long, 
linear-oblong, with a recurved rigid point ; flowers minute, 
reddish, turning to white in heads, 2-4 in. broad, on short 
stalks in the axils of leaves at the top of the branchlets, 
corollas ,, in., stamens ununited, 8, } in. long ; pod curved, 
3-4 by 3 in., 6-10-seeded, joints square, separating from the 
sutures. 
like the last, but pinne fewer and the sutures of the 
pods armed with large hooked prickles. 
Not Pop-BEARING PLANTS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 
large, branches smooth except at first, when rather 
hairy ; leaves even- rarely odd- pinnate, 8-12 in. long, 
stipules linear, awl-shaped, leaflets 12-18 or 13-19, nar- 
rowly lanceolate, 2-4 in., sharply toothed, long-pointed, 
end one, if present, may be lobed; flowers } in. diam., 
white, in terminal branching racemes, 6-12 in. long, calyx 
cup-shaped, 5-lobed, petals 5, rounded stamens about 20, 
rarely united at the base ; carpels 5, smooth or velvety. 
