262 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, EReot, with ALTERNATE STIPULATE CompouND LEAVES. 
Aischynomene 
indica, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
BUBAD. in) 151. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Phalia, Gujrat 
District (Douie). 
Uraria picta, 
Dabra, deter. 
LEGUMINOS#!. 
BB itu; P55: 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Cicer arietinum, 
Gram or Chick-pea, 
Chana. 
LEGUMINOS®. 
F. B. I. ii. 176. 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Commonly 
cultivated. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
large, annual, pale green, stem smooth, branches 
many, cylindrical, often slightly rough with tubercles ; 
leaves 2-3 in., stalk sticky with glands, stipules linear- 
lanceolate, long-pointed, with processes at the base, soon 
falling off, leaflets 41-61, sensitive, very small, upper ones 
smallest, overlapping, alternate, narrowly oblong, rounded 
with a small point ; flowers 4 in., yellow, often with purple 
streaks, in many, sticky, axillary racemes, bracts small, 
lanceolate, fringed with hairs, calyx 4 in., smooth, deeply 
2-lipped, lips faintly toothed, petals 5, standard circular, 
erect, keel nearly straight, blunt, stamens 10 in2 bundles 
of 5, style incurved, smooth; pod 1-13 in. long, linear, 
stalked, flattened, smooth, straight or rather curved, upper 
suture straight, lower indented, joints 6-10, smooth or 
finally rough with nipple-like processes, one seed in each 
joint. The allied species, Au. aspera, yields the pith (scla) 
from which sun hats are made. 
large, perennial, stem finely downy, robust, branches 
few ; leaves 10-12 in. long, lowest simple or of 3 leaflets, 
rounded or oblong, upper of 5-9 leaflets, mid-stalk downy, 
stipules 4 in., lanceolate, long-pointed, leaflets 4-8 in., 
linear-lanceolate, leathery, smooth, clouded with white 
above, net-veined, minutely velvety beneath; flowers 
+ in., purple, in dense cylindrical racemes, 6-12 by 
8-3 in., bracts brown, thin, soon falling off, minor flower 
stalks bristly, abruptly incurved at the tip after flowering, 
calyx 4 in., tube very short, teeth 5, 2 upper short, lower 
long, bristle-like, petals 5, standard broad, wings united 
to the keel, stamens 10, upper one free, lower ones united, 
style thread-like, sharply bent; pod of 8-6 joints, joints 
small, swollen, one-seeded, polished, often placed face to 
face. The seeds are used to cure ulcers in the mouth. 
small, annual, sticky, much branched; leaves 1-2 
in., stipules small, obliquely ovate, with a few long teeth, 
strongly veined, leaflets 13 or so, } in. long, ovate or oblong, 
deeply cut, strongly veined; flowers 3 in., pink, blue or 
white, solitary, axillary on stalks 3-2 in., calyx }-} in., teeth 
5, linear, nearly equal, petals 5, standard broad, longer 
than the wings and keel, stamens 10, upper free, lower 
united, style incurved, beardless; pod #-1 in., swollen, 
velvety, sessile, narrowed into the persistent style, seeds 2, 
