Planis of the Punjab. 259 
Herss, ERECT, witn ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES, 
Oxytropis 
lapponica, 
Oxytropis 
cachemirica, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
BOB. Foam: 189. 
Kashmir, 
8-10,000 ft. 
Oxytropis 
Meinshausenii, 
LEGUMINOS. 
fi, Bs tu. 189. 
Himalaya, 
9-11,000 ft. 
Valley of 
Kishengunga. 
Onobrychis 
Stewartii, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
Bek ie 144: 
The Plains. 
Hazara (Stewart). 
Rawalpindi 
(Aitchison). 
Kot Futteh Khan, 
Rawalpindi District 
Douie). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
white hairs ; flowers 3-% in., yellow, in few-flowered sessile 
axillary heads, calyx 3-8 in., thinly velvety, teeth 5, linear, 
bristle-like, petals 5, nearly equal, stamens and style like 
those of the last species; pods oblong, sessile, 1 in. long, 
inflated, 10-12-seeded. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 
pound. 
small, perennial, rootstock woody, stem short, finely 
velvety ; leaves 1-2 in., stipules lanceolate or triangular, 
united below, leaflets 183-21, oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 in., 
densely white silky ; flowers }in., yellow, rarely purple, 
in dense heads, 12-30-flowered, on long stalks, bracts dis- 
tinct, lanceolate, calyx 2 in., densely white silky, teeth 5, 
linear, nearly equal, petals 5, standard longest, keel 
shortest with a distinct point, stamens 10, one free, cthers 
united, style abruptly incurved, beardless; pod 3-§ in, 
sessile, much inflated, shaggy with loose dense white silky 
hairs, round-oblong, 5-6-seeded. 
small, perennial, stem distinct, at first thinly covered 
with soft scattered hairs; leaves 8-4 in., stipules }-4 in., 
free, lanceolate or oblong, leaflets 17-31, 4-2 in., oblong, 
blunt, green, slightly covered with long whitish hairs on 
both surfaces ; flowers 2 in., yellow, rarely purple, ina dense 
12-20-flowered heads on erect stalks, 4-6 in., bracts 4-}in,, 
linear, covered with scattered black hairs, calyx 2 in., tubu- 
lar, thinly covered with horizontal black hairs, teeth 5, 
linear, feathered in black, petals, stamens and style like 
those in the last species; pod 4-2 in., oblong, expanded, 
straight, short-stalked, with a few silky black hairs, 6-8- 
seeded. 
medium size, annual, stem slender, becoming smooth ; 
leaves 3-4 in., including stalk, stipules lear, minute, leaf- 
lets 9-11, 4-3 in. long, lanceolate with broad lip, nearly 
short-pointed, wide apart, somewhat hairy ; flowers 3 in., 
red, in long-stalked axillary racemes, 6-9 in., bracts linear, 
‘minute, calyx -, in., bell-shaped, silky, teeth 5, lanceolate, 
petals 5, standard broad, smooth, veined, wings short, 
keel blunt, stamens 10, all united, style thread-like, in- 
curved ; pod 4-1 in., kidney-shaped, expanded, faces woody, 
deeply honey-combed, edge armed with close minute spines, 
one-seeded. Douie found the stipules larger than minute, 
and the stamens not all united. 
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