Plants of the Punjab, 599 
CLIMBING PLANTS WITH ALTERNATH STIPULATE CompouNnD LEAVES. 
Kueuna pruriens, 
Cowiteh or cowhage, 
Kawaneh, goncha. 
LEGUMINOSA. 
Bebo in Ley, 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Hathni Kund. 
Spatholobus 
Roxburghii, 
Mula, mala. 
LEGUMINOSE. | 
Be Bs Trik 193, 
The Plains, 
Pueraria tuberosa, 
Sural, siali, . 
LEGUMINOSA. 
By. Be 1. 19%. 
The Plains to 
4,000 it. 
Basantpur, Sutlej 
Valley (Collett). 
PRTALS UNUNITED. 
annual, slender, branches velvety with flat-lying 
hairs at first, almost smooth afterwards ; leaves 6-9 in. 
of 8 leaflets, leaflets 8-5 in. long, ovate-oblong, grey 
silky below, almost smooth and green above; flowers 
13-14 in. long purplish in long, short-stalked drooping 
racemes, 6-12 in., bracts small, lanceolate, calyx 2 in., 
teeth 5, 2 upper united, lowest longer than the middle 
ones, corolla protruding far, keel and wings about equal, 
standard half as long; pod 2-3 in, long, ribbed, covered 
with grey or rusty weak irritating bristles, seeds 5-6. The 
irritating hairs on the pods are used in medicine as 
anthelmentics. The powdered seeds are used in Indian 
medicine as aphrodisiac, the root as a nervine tonic, 
perennial, woody, stout, branches covered with dense 
grey down ; leaves of 38 leaflets, leaflets 6-8 in., ovate with 
a broad tip or narrowed to both ends ; flowers 4 in., bright 
red to white,in terminal branching racemes, 1-14 ft. long, 
very downy, calyx 4-} in., bell-shaped, densely grey velvety, 
teeth 5, lower lanceolate, corolla half as long again ag the 
calyx, keel nearly straight, blunt, stamens 10, all united 
but the upper one; pod 8-4 in. long, 1 in. broad, covered 
with rusty felt especially towards the tip, stalk 4 in, long, 
seed one. A gum like kino exudes from the bark, an oil 
is obtained from the seeds, which is used for cooking. 
perennial, roots tuberous, stems velvety, twining, 
widely climbing, leaves falling in winter ; leaves of 8 leaf- 
lets, arranged pinnately, leaflets 4-9 in., broadly ovate- 
accuminate, lateral oblique, green smoothish above, densely 
white velvety beneath, stipules minute, soon falling off, 
ovate-heart-shaped ; flowers 4-4 in., bright blue, in dense 
leafless. twiggy, often branched racemes, bracts minute, 
calyx 3-1 in., very silky, teeth almost blunt, 2 upper 
united, corolla distinctly spurred at the base, wings 
obliquely oblong, keel blunt, stamens 10, all united, 
style thread-like, much incurved, beardless; pod 2-3 in. 
long, flat, linear, contracted between the seeds, densely 
covered with soft brown bristle-like hairs, tipped with the 
style base, seeds 2-6, divided by partitions. The tubers, 
bilai kand, are given as food for cattle, also used as a cooling 
medicine, more rarely as human food. 
