Plants of the Punjab. 261 
Heres, ERECT, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATH COMPOUND LBAV3ES. 
Hedysarum 
microcalyx, 
LEGUMINOS. 
Pe Bo im. 147. 
Himalaya, 
9,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Lahul. 
Smithia sensitiva, 
Oda-brint. 
LEGUMINOS 4. 
Bea is 148: 
The Plains. 
Smithia geminiflora, 
LEGUMINOSA#. 
F. B. 1. 11. 149. 
Himalaya, 
1-3,000 ft. 
Smithia ciliata, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
HB. Y. wale: 
Himalaya, 
3-6,000 ft. 
Simla, Naldera 
Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
medium size, stems stout, smooth, furrowed ; leaves, 
including the stalk, 6-9 in., leaflets 11-18, oblong-lanceolate, 
1-15 in., wide apart, blunt, both sides green, smooth ; 
flowers 3-2, bright red, in loose racemes, 2-4 in., calyx }in., 
bell-shaped, smooth, thin, teeth 5, minute, triangular with 
a hard sharp point, petals 5, keel longer than standard, 
METS and style as in the last species ; pods 2-3, jointed, 
-2 in., oblong, thin, smooth, both sutures distinctly mar- 
ae 
medium size, annual, stems very slender, not bristly, 
much branched ; leaves including stalk 4-1 in., mid-nib 
bristly, stipules thin, dry, with processes at the base, leaf- 
lets 4-20, 4-4 in. long, sensitive, oblong, blunt, bristly on 
the mid-rib beneath and along the almost straight margin ; 
flowers 2 in., yellow, 1-6 in short-stalked axillary racemes, 
calyx 4 in., 2-lipped, lips entire, short-pointed, with a 
few scattered pale yellow bristles, petals 5, standard cir- 
cular, keel incurved, blunt, stamens 10, in 2 bundles of 
5, style thread-like, incurved; pod of 4-6 joints, joints 
covered with minute nipple-like projections, folded to- 
gether inside the calyx. This plant is eaten as a pot herb, 
and forms a useful fodder. 
very like the last species, but with fewer leaflets, 
more bristles on the mid-ribs and margins of leaflets, and 
the flowers in pairs in the axils of leaves. 
like the last species, but flowers in dense shortly 
stalked one-sided axillary racemes, bracteoles leafy, oblong, 
with scattered bristles, calyx upper lip sharply cut off, 
lower lanceolate. 
