266 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Ergot, with ALTERNATE StIpULATE CompounD LEAvVEs. 
Cassia obovata 
or obtusa, 
Indian Senna, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
F. B. I. 1. 264. 
The Plains. 
Delhi, Salt Range, 
Derajat. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Cassia Absus, 
Chaksu, banar. 
LEGUMINOSA. 
F B. I. 1. 265. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Colletti). 
Dharmpur. 
Cassia mimosoides, 
var. dimidiata, 
Spireea Aruncus, 
Meadow sweet, 
RosacE. 
F. B. I. u. 328, 
Himalaya, 
8-10 000 ft. 
Hattu (Collett. 
PHTALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
medium size, annual or perennial, nearly smooth, 
branches angular, leaves 2-3 in., stalked, no gland between 
the leaflets, stipules lanceolate, persistent, leaflets 8-12, 
4-14 in. long, oblong-ovate with a broad tip, rounded with a 
minute point, thin, a waxy bluish gloss beneath, flowers 
3 in., pale yellow, in narrow few-flowered stalked racemes, 
2-8 in., calyx segments blunt, smooth, stamens very un- 
equal, pods 1-14 in. long, shortly stalked, much curved, 
rounded at the ends, flexible, smooth, seeds 6-12, separated 
by very thin partitions ; otherwise like the last species, and 
with the same properties. 
medium size, annual or biennial, covered with grey 
sticky hairs ; leaves 14-8 in., long-stalked, a small gland 
on the main stalk between every pair of leaflets, stipules 
small, linear, persistent, short-pointed, leaflets 4, 1-2 in. 
long, oblong, blunt or nearly short-pointed, unequal at the 
base, hairy beneath as well as above ; flowers } in. diam., 
red-yellow in few-flowered erect narrow short racemes, 
calyx of 5 narrow segments, $-+ in. long, lanceolate, bristly, 
petals 5, nearly equal with long stalks, veined, stamens 5, 
equal, perfect ; pod 1-1} in., strap-shaped, oblique, seeds 5, 
flattened, dark brown, shining. The seeds are purgative 
and used in ophthalmia. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
large, rootstock perennial, shrub-like, smoothish ; 
leaves 6 12 in., 2- to 8-pinnate, primary and secondary leaf 
stalks long, leaflet-stalks short, stipules rudimentary, leaf- 
lets usually in threes, 1-8 in. long, ovate, sharply and ir- 
regularly toothed, narrowed into a tail-like tip; flowers 
1-1 in., many, white, one-sexual, male and female on differ- 
ent plants, in long slender velvety branching racemes, 
calyx persistent, lobes 5, oblong, ovate, petals 5, orbicular, 
stamens 20 or more, sometimes united below, styles 5 or 
more, nearly terminal ; follicles 6 or more, swollen, smooth, 
shining, seeds few. This plant is often mistaken for Astilbe 
rivularis, but the latter has no petals. 
