556 
Plants of the Punjab. 
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Prostrate Heres with ALTERNATE SrTipuLATE CompouND LuAvEs, 
Indigofera 
enneaphylla, 
LEGUMINOS&. , 
Beebo. 41,94; 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Lahore. 
Indigofera trifoliata, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
Ps: 1. 1.96. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Indigofera 
anabaptista, 
Astragalus 
amherstianus, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
1 Le ae al bel be 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Chamba. 
Baluchistan 
(Lace). 
Astragalus 
subumbellatus, 
LEGUMINOS™. 
HB. Le ita lo, 
The Plains to 
6-7,000 ft. 
Hazara, Kashmir, 
Rawalpindi 
( Douie), 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
annual or perennial, rootstock woody, stems many 
in a bunch from the root, trailing, with scattered white 
flat-lying hairs; leaves 1-1} in., with 5-9 nearly sessile 
leaflets, leaflets small, firm, lanceolate with a broad tip, 
notched, tipped with an abrupt poimt, stipules ovate, 
tipped with a hard sharp point, thin ; flowers red, small, 
nearly sessile, in oval dense shortly stalked spike-like 
heads, bracts lanceolate, long-pointed, thin, calyx hairy, 
teeth long, bristle-like, petals projecting slightly from the 
calyx, standard ovate with a broad tip, keel straight, not 
beaked, spurred on each side near the base, stamens 10, 
upper stamen free, others united ; pod § in., oblong cylin- 
drical, covered with white flat-lying hairs, seeds 2 with a 
division. 
perennial, stems much branched, trailing, covered 
with flat-lying white hairs, leaflets 3, sessile, 3-1 in. long. 
oblong, gland-dotted, flowers small, red, crowded in small 
sessile racemes, calyx 4, in., teeth long, bristle-like, corolla 
3-4 times the calyx, pod $in., linear, straight, rather angled 
with 2 narrow wings one each side of either suture, 6-8- 
seeded ; for other characters see the last species. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
annual, thickly covered with shining white hairs, 
stems 6-18 in., tufted, slender, trailmg; leaves 1-1} in., 
odd pinnate, leaflets 13-17, narrowly oblong, $ in. ; 
flowers 1 in. long, pale yellow or pink, in stalked axillary 
racemes, 4-2 in. long, bracts minute, bristle-like, calyx 
1.1 in., teeth bristle-like, as long as the tube, petals narrow, 
stalked, standard erect, wings equal to the incurved blunt 
keel, stamens 10, upper free, others united; pod 3 in, 
sessile, curved, almost divided lengthwise by the lower 
suture, seeds 10-12. 
like the last species, but petals more than twice as 
long as the calyx, pod longer, 20-24-seeded. 
