Plants of the Punjab. 555 
ProstrRaAtE Herss with ALTERNATE STIPULATE ComMPOUND LEAVES. 
Medicago 
orbicularis, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
BP. 5, f.190; 
Kashmir, 
Baluchistan (Duke). 
Medicago laciniata, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
BS. vei. 902 
The Plains. 
Baluchistaz 
(Stocks). 
Medicago 
denticulata, 
Toothed Medick, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
. (Collett). 
Peshawar. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Medicago minima, 
Bur Medick, 
LEGUMINOS&, 
EF. Bebe 91, 
Kashmir, 
5-6,000 ft. 
Lotus corniculatus, 
Birds’ foot trefoil, 
LEGUMINOSA. 
Fe Badia. 9t, 
Himalaya, 
2-10,000 ft. 
Simla, Matiana, 
Hatu (Collett), 
Murree. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
like the last species, but annual, stipules cut deeply 
into lobes, heads 2-3-flowered, petals projecting far out 
of the calyx, pod 3-2? in. broad, with 4-5 flattened spirals, 
unarmed. 
like the last species, but flowers in 1-2-flowered heads, 
stalk with bristle, pod $ in., nearly round with 4-5 sharply 
armed spirals. 
like the last species, but rather longer, pod with 2-4 
spirals, the veined face §-} in. broad without the spines 
which are hooked, #,-} in. long. 
like the last species, but stipules entire, stems less 
than 6 in. long, pod 4 in. broad, nearly round, formed of 
2-4 spirals, with 2 rows of hooked prickles. 
perennial, smooth, stem slender, decumbent; leaves 
with 5 leaflets, leaflets 1-2 in. ovate with broad tip or ob- 
long, almost sessile, stipules of minute glands; flowers 
4 in. long, yellow, often streaked with pink, 5-10 in a long- 
stalked axillary umbel, with a leaf of 8 leaflets beneath, 
calyx bell-shaped, teeth 5, corolla twice as long ag the 
calyx, standerd longer than the wings, keel incurved, 
pointed, stamens 10, upper free, others united, 5 alter- 
nate ones longer; pod 1-14 in., straight, cylindric, seeds 
several, divided by pith. 
