Plants of the Punjab. 255 
Herss, Hrect, with ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVFS. 
Tephrosia purpurea, 
Sarpank, bansa- 
bansu. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
eB. a. 119: 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes- Buller). 
Tephrosia villosa, 
LEGUMINOSA. 
ive Biel Veer le 
The Plains. 
Tehprosia pauciflora, 
LEGUMINOS®. 
bth. ity bls, 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Sesbania aculeata, 
Jayanti, jaintar. 
LEGUMINOSA. 
BBs tea 5. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
medium size, perennial, much branched, stems slender, 
cylindrical ; leaves 3-6 in., pinnate, shortly stalked, stipules 
linear-awl-shaped, leaflets 18-21, narrow, lanceolate with a 
broad tip, blunt, green, smooth above, silky beneath ; 
flowers 4-2 in., red, thinly silky, in leaf opposed loose- 
flowered racemes, 8-6 in. long, bracteoles minute, calyx 3-4 
in., silky, teeth 5, 2 upper teeth longer than the 8 
lower, petals 5, 4-2 in., standard circular, silky without, 
keel petals blunt, stamens 10, upper free, others 
united, style curved, smooth, tuft of hairs at the tip ; pod 
13-2 by 1 in., sessile, velvety, flat, seeds 6-10. This plant 
is used as a diuretic, tonic, and laxative. 
small, perennial, stems zigzag, woody, finely downy 
with white flat-lying hairs ; leaves 2-3 in. long, nearly sessile, 
stipules linear, ascending or reflexed, leaflets 13-19, grey 
green, nearly smooth above, silky below, narrowly lance- 
olate with the tip broad and often notched ; flowers 2 in., 
red in racemes 6 or more inches long, lower flowers in 
distant separate clusters of stalks, bracts bristle-like, 
feathered, calyx 4-} in., very silky, teeth 5, bristle-like, 
lower longer than the calyx tube, petals 5, not much longer 
than the calyx, stamens and style as in the last species ; 
pod 1-14 in. long, §-4 in. broad, densely velvety, curved, 
sharply bent down. 
very like the last species, but leaflets 5-9, flowers 
stalked in pairs in the axils of leaves. 
large, annual, shrub-like, branches and under-surface 
of leaf mid-ribs armed with small hooked prickles ; leaves 
6-12 in., leaflets more numerous and smaller than those 
of Sesbania egyptiaca, see Shrubs, leaflets 41-81, smooth ; 
flowers 3-4 in., pale yellow dotted with red, in stalked 
loosely 8-6-flowered racemes, calyx 5-toothed, }in., smooth, 
teeth short, triangular, petals 5, stalked, standard petal 
broad, keel blunt, stamens 10, upper free, others united, 
style thread-like, smooth, incurved ; pod 6-9 in., linear, 
slightly curved, beaked, smooth, seeds many. This plant 
is often cultivated for its excellent fibre, 
