Planis of the Punjab. 527 
Prosgrass Heres wives Oprrosirn Szriputare Losap Laavezs. 
Erodium malacoides, 
Erodium stipaceum, 
GERANIACES. 
BY, Bee 1.435¢ 
The Plains, 
west of the Indus, 
Bannu (Stewart). 
PuPALS UNUNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 
annual, grey, root woody, branches straggling, leaves 
4-1 in., oblong, round-toothed, lobed or pinnately divided, 
stalk slender, flowers 4 in. diam., in several flowered umbels, 
sepals concave, strongly 3-nerved, silky grey with a 
hard point, petals narrowly wedge-shaped, equal to the 
sepals, stamens bristly, inner much longer and broader, 
fruit 3-4 in. long, slender, rough with transverse wrinkles 
at the tip of the valves, beak very long, hairs yellow; 
for other characters see the last described species. 
Pros#ra?z Heres with Opposirs StirputAts CoMPOUND LEAVES. 
Tribulus terrestris, 
Caltrops, 
Gokhru, lotak, 
bakhra. 
ZYGOPHYLLACES. 
EB. Be Pat 428: 
The Plains to 
11,000 ft. 
On sandy soil. 
Lahore, Nurpur, 
Kangra District. 
Tribulus alatus, 
Gokhri kalan. 
ZYGOPHYLLACER. 
Be Buk. 423. 
The Plains, 
Mul an, Dera 
Ismail Khan. 
Flemingia vestita, 
LEGUMIiINOSH. 
F.B. ha. 230; 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
4-7,000 ft. 
Simla, on grassy 
slopes (Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
annual or biennial, prostrate, silky branches 12-24 in.; 
leaves abruptly pinnate, 4-1 in., leaflets 5-7 pairs, almost 
equal, tipped by a stiff point on a straight edge ; flowers 1-2 
in. diam., yellow, solitary on stalks shorter than the leaves, 
sepals 5, 4-4 in., long-pointed, silky, petals 5, soon falling 
off, spreading, stamens 10, alternately longer and shorter, 
the latter with a small gland outside, ovary sessile, hairy, 
5-12-lobed, stigmas 5-12 ; fruit 5-angled of 5-12 cocci with 
2 long and 2 short spines, smooth or hairy, seeds 2 or 
more in each cell. This plant is used much as a demul- 
cent and diuretic, especially the seeds. 
like the last species, but fruit broadly pyramidal, 
somewhat pointed, cocci hairy, 2-seeded, the spines united 
into toothed wings, This plant is used in the same way 
as the last species. , 
velvety or hairy, root tuberous, stem prostrate, trail- 
ing, 12-24 in.; leaves digitately compound, leaflets 3, 1} 
by 1 in., almost sessile, minutely hairy, stipules }-3 in., 
lanceolate, persistent, leaf stalk 4-1 in.,; flowers 3-3 in., 
bright red, in a close cluster of 3-6 on minutely hairy axil- 
lary stalks, longer than the leaves, bracts 4 in., oblong, 
silky, pointed, soon falling off, calyx 4-2 in., densely 
brown-velvety, teeth 5, narrow, long-pointed, lower the 
the longest, petals 5, hairy, nearly equal, longer by half 
