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Plants of the Punjab. 
ProstrRATE SHRUBS WITH ALTHRNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE Lpavas. 
Prunus prostrata, 
Cotoneaster, 
nummularia, 
Cotoneaster 
microphylla, 
Rosachs, 
EBL 1. 387, 
Himalaya, 
4-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Narkanda, Hattu, 
Kashmir. 
Ficus foveolata, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
hardly protruding from the calyx, petals nearly equal, 
upper petal (standard) broadly ovate, spreading, keel 
(lower) petals incurved, blunt, stamens 10, upper one free, 
others united, style incurved, thicker in the middie, tip 
smooth, stigma small; pod } in,, short, oblong, swollen, 
seeds 1 or 2. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
small, dense, intricately branched; leaves }-} in,, 
ovate, short-pointed or blunt, dark green, shining above, 
velvety or felted beneath, margins recurved, stipules bristle- 
like, soon falling off; flowers 4 in., white, usually solitary, 
axillary, calyx tube bell-shaped, lobes 5, short, persistent, 
petals 5, round, stamens many, styles 2 5, stigmas round ; 
berry } in., round, bright red, containing 2-5 bony one- 
seeded nutlets. 
PETALS NONE. 
see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipuiate, Simple. 
ProstRATE SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Flemingia congesta, 
var. semialata, 
Rubus macilentus, 
Rosachs. 
F. B. I. 1. 336. 
Himalaya, 
4-6.000 ft. 
Hazara (Stewart). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
seo Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
nearly smooth, without glands, prickly, trailing, stems 
stout, red brown, bluntly angled, shining, prickles }4-} 
in., much flattened, stout, straight or hooked ; leaves com- 
pound, leaflets 3, }-2 in., rigidly leathery, brown when 
dry, smooth on both sides, terminal leaflet ovate-lanceo- 
late, long-pointed, lateral ones sessile, smaller, sometimes 
circular, mid-rib beneath with hooded prickles, stalk stiff 
sometimes velvety along the grooved upper surface, doubly 
round-toothed, stipules bristly ; flowers 4 in. diam., in 
flat-topped branching 1-3-flowered racemes, main flower 
stalk 4-? in., velvety, axillary or almost terminal, calyx 
without bracteoles, persistent, silky outside, felted within 
tube spreading, 5-lobed, lobes tailed, erect in fruit, petals 5, 
