Plants of the Punjab. 557 
ProstRAtE HERBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Astragalus 
tribuloides, 
—Ogar. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
[gl opal ie i bpp 
The Plains, 
Rawalpindi. 
Fatehjang (Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Astragalus hamosus, 
Akhil-ul-malik. 
LEGUMINOSA. 
Pee. tai. 129) 
The Plains, 
Lahore, Peshawar. 
Astragalus 
contortuplicatus, 
Astragalus 
himalayanus, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
Cad 8c, 4 Pi eg (210 
Himalaya, 
§-13,000 ft. 
Lahul, Kulu. 
Kashmir. 
Astragalus 
leucocephalus, 
Zornia diphylla, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
pb. lei. 147, 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
like the last species, but flowers in dense sessile heads» 
pods 3 in. long, very little recurved, velvety in clusters 
often sticking out like spokes of a wheel. The geeds are 
used locally as medicine 
like the last species, bu, stouter, heads stalked, pod 
long, cylindrical, smooth, much recurved. This plant is 
used as an emollient and demulcent. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
like the last described species, but stems very slender, 
12-24 in., with distant internodes, flowers lilac, in stalked 
rounded heads, pods linear-oblong, stalked, almost one- 
celled, 5-6-seeded. 
see Herbs, Hrect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
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annual, almost erect, tufted, wiry ; leaves stalked of 
one or two opposite pairs, leaflets 3-1 in. long, lanceolate, 
smooth, leathery, dotted with black glands, stipules lan- 
ceolate with a long spur ; flowers yellow, 4 in., nearly sessile, 
in erect axillary loose racemes, 1-3 in. long, bracts in pairs, 
leaf-lke fringed, almost hiding the flowers, calyx thin, 
half the length of the petals, teeth 5, 2 upper united, 
2 lateral very short, lowest equal to the upper, standard 
round, keel incurved, blunt, stamens 10, united, alternately 
long and short bearing round or oblong anthers, style 
imeurved, smooth ; pod of 2-5 one-seeded joints, prickly, 
projecting beyond the bracts. 
