604 
Plants of the Punjab. 
a ee SSS 
CLimBInG PLANTS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE CoMPOUND LEAVES. 
Ceesalpinia sepiaria, 
Mysore Thorn, 
Urn, arlet. 
LEGUMINOSZ. 
Be fe 31/256. 
The Plains to 
4.000 it. 
Sutlej Valley, 
Basantpur, Subathu 
(Collett). 
Acacia Intsia, 
Arhai-ka-bel. 
LEGUMINOSZ. 
F. B. 1. 1. 297. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Rubus niveus, 
Rosa moschata, 
Kujt, karw. 
RosacEs. 
F321, 0. S61. 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
circular, spreading, upper *mallest and innermost stalked, 
stamens 10, free ; pod 2-3 in., oblong, densely covered with 
prickles, tipped with the style, seeds 1 or 2, round or ovoid, 
3 in., shining, hard. The powdered seeds are used as a 
febrifuge, and the seeds are made into necklaces and 
rosaries. 
like the last species, but prickles pale brown, not 
yellow, flowers larger, racemes long-stalked, not branched, 
stamens woolly at the base, longer than the petals, pods 
longer, 3-5 in., smooth, with a wing on one side, not prickly, 
seeds 4-8, flattened mottled. 
perennial, downy, prickles minute, hooked, numerous, 
often in vertical lines; leaves 2-pimnate, 10-18 in. long, 
pinne or side branches of main leat stalk 12-16, leaflets 
16-24, 4-4 in., strap-shaped-oblong, stipules soon falling 
off ; flowers } in., pale yellow, im dense round heads, $-3 in. 
diam., forming large terminal branching racemes, bracts 
minute, lanceolate, calyx broadly funnel-shaped, 4- or 
5-toothed or lobed, petals 4 or 5, more or less united, sta- 
mens 50 or more, projecting, free or united at the base ; 
pod 4-6 by 3-1} in., straight, strap-shaped, 8-12-seeded, 
stalked—vVar. Cesia, only differs in the number of leaflets, 
40-60. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
perennial, smooth or nearly so, covered with scattered 
stout, hooked prickles ; leaves 3-6 in., leaflets 8-7, 1-3 im., 
ovate, nearly equal, toothed, short-pointed, stipules united 
to the leaf stalks, glandular, awl-shaped ; flowers 13-2 in. 
diam., yellowish-white, fragrant, in large branched velvety, 
not prickly, clusters, bracts awl-shaped, calyx small, ovoid, 
lobes 5,4 in., lanceolate, long-pointed, often pinnately 
divided, bent back after flowering, shorter than the petals, 
petals 5, large, spreading, circular, ovate with broad tip, 
stamens many, styles united into a column projecting far 
beyond the calyx tube; fruit 4 in. diam., almost round, 
dark brown, consisting of many long hairy achenes, enclosed 
in the fleshy calyx tube, . 
