Plants of the Punjab. 463 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE CompounD LEAvess. 
Oxytropis Thomsoni, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
RoBal 1mgi38: 
Himalaya, 
7-15,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Lahul. 
Oxytropis tatarica, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
BH. B.E. u. 138. 
Himalaya, 
13-17,000 ft. 
Ladak, Spiti. 
Oxytropis 
microphylla, 
Niargal, tahsha. 
LEGUMINOSS. 
BE. B, Id. 139. 
Himalaya, 
11-16,000 ft. 
Spiti. 
Geum urbanum, 
Geum elatum, 
Fragaria indica, 
The Indian 
Strawberry, 
Paljor, musrini. 
Rosacem. 
PeBalane 843; 
Himalaya, 
3-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashc bra 
(Collett). 
Kashmir, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
very like the last species, but leaves longer, 4-6 in., 
leaflets 2-1 in. long, 13-5, not so densely silky, flowers in 
racemes 8-4 in. long, flower stalks equal to or a little 
longer than the leaves, corolla twice as long as the calyx, 
pod 4-6-seeded. 
like the last species, but very small, only 3-4 in. 
high, leaves 3-1 in. long, leaflets $-3 in. long, stipules minute, 
flowers yellow, rarely tipped with purple, 20-40, in very 
dense long-stalked heads, calyx 4-} in., densely white silky, 
corolla half as long again as the calyx, pod 4-8 in. sessile, 
swollen, round-oblong, 5-6-seeded, shaggy with dense 
loose white silky hairs. 
small, perennial, stemless, 3-8 in. high, tufts at the 
top of a woody rootstock, the triangular, interlacing sti- 
pules covered with dense tufts of long white silky hairs, 
leaf 14-3 in. long, short-stalked, leaflets 4-1 in. long, linear- 
oblong, crowded, 2 pairs often opposite each other, form- 
ing a circle, edges much reflexed, flowers 4 in. long, purple, 
4-15, in heads, at first close, then becoming 2-8 in. long, 
on flower stalks equal to or longer than the leaves, calyx 
covered with large sessile glands, pod linear, sessile, swollen, 
recurved, seeds 20-30; for other characters see the last 
species. This plant is browsed by yaks and sheep. 
_ see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
small, perennial, silky hairy, rootstock stout with 
many long slender prostrate stems ; leaves mostly radical, 
tufted, long-stalked, digitately compound, leaflets 3-12 in., 
sessile, ovate, toothed, teeth small, often blunt, stipules 
joined to the leaf stalk, broad, toothed, stem leaves few, 
often simple ; flowers 3-1 in. diam., yellow, nodding, axillary 
or few in terminal clusters on slender naked stalks 1-5 in., 
equalling the leaf stalks, calyx persistent, tube spreading, 
bearing on its outer margin, 5 bracteoles alternating 
with 5 calyx lobes, bracteoles large, 8-lobed, lobes ovate or 
lanceolate, petals 5, broadly ovate with a broad tip, heart- 
shaped, stamens many ;achenes many, minute, sunk in 
the surface of a succulent red convex receptacle, 
