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Plants of the Punjab. 
CLIMBING PLANTS witH ALTERNATE STipuLATE CompounD LEAVES. 
Abrus precatorius, 
Gaungchi, ratak, 
labri. 
LEGUMINOS®. 
1 ie SLRS is OG 
The Plains to 
8,500 ft. 
Cicer soongaricum, 
Tizhu, sarri. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
Bb. Tez 176. 
Hima’aya, 
9-15,000 ft. 
Spiti, Lahul. 
Vicia hirsu‘a, 
Hairy vetch or tare, 
Masur-chana. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
ee oi Dag TN Ie 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Jaku, Simla, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
angled, winged, seed: black with white heart- haped pro- 
tuberances. This plant is used medicinally, the green 
parts eaten as a vegetable. ‘The root is emetic, diuretic, 
and laxative, the seeds, hab-ul-kalkal, ave ‘onic and dia- 
phoretic. 
perennial, woody, branches many, smooth ov silky, 
slender ; leaves 2-3 in. long, leaflets 20-40 in oppo:ite pairs, 
3-5 by 4-3 in., ligulate-ob/ong, thin, smooth above, silky 
beneath, leaf stalk ending ina tendril; flowers 4in., pink 
or white, in dense axillary stalked racemes, shorter than 
the leave, calyx ;4, in., thinly silky, bell-shaped, teeth 
very short, corolla much protruding, standard petal ovate, 
wing petals narrow, keel petals curved, stamens 9; pod 
1-14 in. long, thick, oblong, 3-5-seeded, seeds the size of a 
pea, nearly round, usually scarlet and black or white and 
black. The seeds, rat’, are used by jewellers as weights ; 
as the specific name denotes, they are also used as beads in 
rosaries. The root is used as a substitute for liquorice. 
The powdered seeds are used to poison cattle by in- 
sertion under the skin in the shape of a mall pencil and 
called sui. When applied io the conjunctiva, purulent 
ophthalmia is caused. 
annual, widely spreading, stems wiry, finely velvety 
or smooth ; leaves 3-4 in., ending in a spiral tendril, leaf- 
lets 20-40, ovate with a broad tip to wedge-shaped, veins 
marked, stipules 3-3 in., palmately divided; flowers # 
in., pink, blue or white, solitary in the axils on stalks 14 
in. with a large bract, calyx 2 in., pouched, calyx tube 
oblique, teeth 5, lanceolate, corolla projecting, standard 
petal broad, stamens 10; pod 1 in. long, densely velvety, 
linear-oblong, narrowed into the styles, seeds nearly round, 
beaked. The seeds are eaten, also used locally to fatten 
cattle. A vinegar forms with the dew on the leaves. 
annual, hairy, stems slender, 1-8 ft., velvety ; leaves 
13-3 in., even pinnate ending in a twisted tendril, leaf- 
lets 10-16, 3-1 in., stipules almost forked, too‘hed at the 
base ; flowers } in., white tinged with blue, in six- or 'ess- 
flowered racemes, shorter than the leaves. calyx bell- 
shaped, teeth 5, 8 lower longest, corolla just projecting 
from the calyx, standard erect, broad, keel nearly straight, 
obtuse, shorter than the wings, stamens 10, upper free ; 
pod 4-4 in., hairy, oblong, short-pointed, black, seeds 2. 
A weed of wheat fields, sometimes cultivated for fodder, 
