Plants of the Punjab. 517 
SSS ea ee EEE LES ee ALP SRE ene 
PROSTRATEH PLANTS. 
PRostRATE SHRUBS WITH OpposiTts Exstipunare Simpie Leavas. 
Lonicera parvifolia, 
Thymus Serpyllum, 
Micromeria biflora, 
Ephedra vulgaris, 
PRosTRATE SHRUBS 
Capparis spinosa, 
Alysicarpus 
vaginalis, 
Desmodium 
triquetrum, 
var. pseudo- 
triquetrum, 
(D. C. Prod, ii. 826). 
LEGUMINOSZ. 
F. B. I. 1. 168. 
Himalaya, 
along the base, 
east of the Ravi to 
4,000 ft. 
Kangra. 
Flemingia 
strobilifera, 
var, fruticulosa, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
BB; Tne 2a. 
Himalaya, 
~ 4-9,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Dalhousie. 
PETALS UNIFED, 
see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Leafless Plants, Petals None. 
WitH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SimpLE Leavzs, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 
small, branches prostrate, grooved, triangular, almost 
smooth, leaflet one, 4-5 in. long, narrowly oblong-lanceo- 
late, short-pointed, base rounded or almost heart-shaped, 
green, smooth, netted on both sides, 2 stipels small, 
united to the upper margin of the wing of the leaflet stalk, 
stalk 1in., broadly winged, stipules 4-3 in., persistent ; 
flowers 4 in., purple, in narrow axillary and terminal ra- 
cemes, 6-10 in. long, consisting of solitary clustered 
flowers in the axils of thin stipule-like bracts with similar 
but smaller ones at their base, calyx 4 in., bell-shaped, 
teeth 5, upper 2 teeth triangular, lower 8 linear, corolla 
3 In., upper petal (standard) broad, outermost, 2 lateral 
(wing) petals more or less adherent to the two united lower 
petals (keel) blunt, stamens 10, in two bundles of 9 and 
of 1, style incurved, stigma minute, round; pod 1-2 in, 
long, joints 6-8, thin, a little broader than long, smooth, 
except for a few flat-lying hairs along the sutures. 
small, branches prostrate, 6-18 in., spreading from the 
root ; leaves 13-3 in., ovate or nearly circular, dark green- 
reddish when young, folded into plaits, nerves prominent 
below, stipules 7 in., linear; flowers 4 in. long, pink or 
white, in small clusters enclosed by folded, transparent, 
dry, circular bracts, nearly 2 in. across, arranged in 2 
rows in short racemes, with zigzag central stalk, bracts 
shortly stalked, } in. long, deeply heart-shaped, calyx } 
in., finely hairy, teeth 5, lanceolate, lowest longest, corolla 
