560 Plants of the Punjab, 
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Prostrate Heres witH ALTERNATE STIPULATE Compounp LmAVEs. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
Desmodium like the last species, but stems trailing, not rooting 
parvifolium, at the joints, stipules as long as the leaf-stalks, corolla 
Khetsunsunt. purple, pod straight, both margins deeply indented. 
LEGUMINOS#. This is also a good fodder plant. 
F. B. 1. 11. 174. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Simla, Summer Hill 
(Collett). 
Vigna vexillata, see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
Rhynchosia aurea, see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
Rhynehosia minima, see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
Rhynehosia see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
Falconeri, 
Rhynchosia see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 
himalensis, . 
Flemingia congesta, perennial, stems slender, triangular, trailing ; leaves of 
var. semialata, 3 leaflets, leaf stalks winged, leaflets lanceolate, stipules 4 
Bara salpan, in. long, lanceolate, soon falling off, end one wedge-shaped, 
LEGUMINOS2. lateral ones obliquely rounded at the base, lower surface 
F. B. I. ii, 229. with a few minute red glands and silky hairs on the veins ; 
Himalaya, flowers white with purple in long loose branching racemes, 
8-5,000 ft. often longer than the leaves, bracts §-} in., silky on the 
Chamba. back, soon falling off, calyx }-3 in., densely covered with 
silky brown hairs, teeth linear-lanceolate, lowest longest, 
corolla hardly protruding from the calyx ; pod 3 in., oblong, 
slightly downy, 2-seeded, seeds small, round, black, smooth, 
shining. Waras, the yellow dye, is obtained from the 
glands on the pods of a variety of this species, 
Flemingia vestita, perennial, root tuberous, edible, said to be sometimes 
LEGUMINOSAE. cultivated, stems trailing, 12-24 in., branched, densely 
F. B. I. ii. 280, covered with short grey hairs ; leaves 2 in, long, leaflets 3, 
Himalaya, closely touching, 3-1 in. across, ovate with a broad tip, 
4-7,000 ft. base wedge-shaped, minutely hairy on both sides, stipules 
Simla, on grassy 1-3 in., persistenty lanceolate ; flowers }# in., bright red, 
slopes (Collett). in small dense 8-6-flowered heads on long axillary stalks 
