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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, witu ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. | 
Medicago faleata, 
Medick, non-such, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
BeBe 11, 90. 
Himalaya, 
5-10,000 ft. 
Mashobra (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Medicago sativa, 
Lucerne, 
Alfalfa. 
LEGUMINOSA. 
esl cat. 290; 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Cyamopsis 
psoralioides, 
Kulthi, guar. 
LEGUMINOS. 
F. B. I. 11 92. 
The Plains. 
Rawalpindi 
(Aitchison). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes- Buller). 
Indigofera trifoliata, 
Indigofera trita, 
Taverniera 
nummularia, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS TWO-THREE. 
medium size, perennial, nearly smooth, branches 
many ; leaves pinnately compound, leaflets 3, $-1 in. long, 
narrowly oblong, upper part toothed, base entire, lateral 
leaflets sessile, terminal one stalked, nerves prolonged to 
the teeth, stipules narrowly lanceolate, long-pointed, united 
to the leaf stalk ; flowers 4 in., yellow, in axillary stalked 
racemes, calyx + in., bell-shaped, teeth 5, bristle-like, nearly 
equal, as long as the tube, petals 5, standard petal not 
stalked, keel shorter than the wing petals, blunt, corolla 
twice as long as the calyx, stamens 10, upper one free, 
others united, style smooth, incurved; pod $-? in. long, 
sickle-shaped, smooth, seeds 5-10. 
very like the last speeies, of which it may be the cul- 
tivated variety, but is more erect, less branched, flowers 
purple or blue, and pods rough, twisted into a double spiral, 
This plant is widely cultivated as a fodder crop. 
Ve 
medium size, annual, robust, covered with laterally 
attached grey hairs, stems 4-sided ; leaves stalked, leaflets 
3, 2-3 in. long, ovate, short-pointed, deeply toothed, stipules 
linear-bristle-like ; flowers } in., purplish, in shortly stalked 
6-30 crowded axillary racemes, bracts bristle-like, pro- 
jecting beyond the buds, calyx §-+ in., tube oblique, teeth 
5, unequal, lowest long, bristle-like, petals 5, just protrud- 
ing from the calyx, soon falling off, standard and wing petals 
narrow, keel biunt, sughtly meurved, stamens 10, united, 
style short, much incurved; pod 1}-2 in. long, straight, 
thick, fleshy, erect, 3-keeled on back, seeds 8-12. This 
plant is cultivated as a vegetable and for fodder. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 
pound, 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 
