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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, wirn ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Potentilla 
argyrophylla, 
RosacEem. 
PB. A. 1. 356. 
Himalaya, 
8-13,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Matiana, Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Indigofera hirsuta, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
BB, 1., 98. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Indigofera 
anabaptista, 
LEGUMINOS®. 
By Be La 102. 
The Plains. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS TWO-THREE. 
large, perennial, rootstock very stout, stem velvety, 
robust ; leaves digitately compound, leaflets 8, 2-8 in,, 
sessile or stalked, ovate, coarsely toothed, green, and finely 
hairy above, white-felted beneath, main leaf stalk 2-8 in., . 
stipules united to the leaf stalk-base, ovate-oblong, short- 
pointed ; flowers 3-14 in. diam., yellow or dark purple, in 
terminal branched racemes, bracteoles 5, oblong, blunt, 
short- or long-pointed, calyx silky, persistent, lobes 5, 
alternating with the bracteoles, long-pointed, peta!s 5, 
heart-shaped with the notch outwards, stamens many, 
styles lateral short, persistent, carpels very many, small, 
crowded on a small dry receptacle ; fruit is a head of many 
hard smooth achenes, covered by the overlapping calyx 
lobes ; achenes one-seeded. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
large, annual or biennial, densely ha‘ry, with laterally 
attached hairs; leaves pinnate, 2-5 in., shortly stalked, 
leaflets 5-11, 1-2 in. long, opposite, ovate with a broad tip, 
membranous, grey-green, stipules bristle-like, feathered ; 
flowers } in., red, in dense slender hairy axillary racemes, 
2-6 in. long, bracts minute, calyx 4 in., densely velvety, 
teeth 5, bristle-like, long feathered, petals 5, not much 
longer than the calyx, soon falling off, standard ovate with 
a broad tip, keel petals united, straight, not beaked, 
spurred on each side near the base, stamens 10, upper 
free, the rest united, anthers tipped with a minute point, 
style smooth, incurved; pod 3-3 in. long, cylindrical, 
densely velvety, 6-8-seeded. 
small, annual, branches spreading, covered thinly 
with hairs like those of the last species, but always white, 
leaves pinnate, shortly sta'ked, leaflets 3-7, oppos te, }-1 
in. long, lanceolate with a broad tip, stipules bristle-like, 
presistent, flowers 4 in., scarcely longer than the calyx, in 
short, dense, 12-20-flowered racemes, calyx } in., silvery 
haired, teeth bristly, pod linear, reflexed ; in other respects 
like the last species. 
