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stipules small. Flowers red, usually few, in axillary racemes. Cal3'x 

 campanulate; teeth short, subequal. Corolla exserted; standard obovate, 

 with a short claw ; wings falcate-oblong, free ; keel incurved, obtuse, 

 about equalling the standard and the wings. Hfamens diadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary stalked ; ovules many; style filiform, incurved, 

 glabrous; stigma small, terminal. Pod linear, jointed, somewhat thick, 

 subterete or compressed, smooth, indehiscent, usually contracted between 

 the seeds ; joints not separating. >Seed reniform. — Distrib. From 

 Greece and Egypt to Soongaria and the Himalayas ; species 3. 



1. Alhagi camelorum, Fisch. Ind. Hort. Gorenl: ed. 2 (1812) p. 72. 

 A low erect shrub, armed with copious hard sharp spines reaching some- 

 times 1^ in. long ; branches terete, striate, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 

 simple, coriaceous, |-| by ^-fV 'i"^-' obovate- oblong, obtuse, apiculate, 

 glabrous or puberulous, base cuneate ; petioles very short ; sti])ules 

 minute, subulate. Flowers 5-8 on a spine; pedicels short, slender. 

 Calyx glabrous, ^ in. long ; teeth short, triangular. Corolla a little 

 more than twice as long as the calyx ; standard g in. long by i- in. bi'oad, 

 obovate-oblong, auricled at the base above the claw, glabrous. Ovary 

 glabrous. Pods f-l^ in. long, usually falcate, more or less contracted 

 between the seeds, glabrous. Seeds blackish-brown, smooth, polished. 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 2, p. 559 ; Prain, in Joiirn. As. Soc. Beng. v. 66 

 (1898) p. 377. Alhagi iMauronim, Baker, in Hook. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 145 

 (vix Tournef.); Grab. Cat. p. 50; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 67; Talb. Tree«, 

 Bomb. p. 68; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Kat. v. 11 (1897) p. 422; 

 Watt, Hict. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 3 64. — Flowers : Mar. Vern". Javasa, 



I have followed Prain (I. c.) in naming the Indian species with a 

 glabrous ovary A. camelorum, as distinct from A. Maurorum, which has 

 a silky one. 



Gujarat : common, Graham, Dalzell t^- Gihson; abundant about Broach, Coolc.l 

 S. M. Country: Graham, Law. Sind : Cooke \, Vicar//'., Woodrowl; Hyderabad, 

 Sfrachan]; Sehwan, Ka7iit/car I— Distrib. India (N. & N.W. Prov.); Belueliistan, 

 Egypt, Arabia. 



The camel-thorn or Persian manna plant. The freslily-eut plants are used largely 

 in Gujarat for making iattics in the hot season. The plant comes into leaf in the hot 

 season and is u?ed as a fodder for camels ; hence its name. Some of its parts supply 

 medicine which is considered valuable by the natives. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



21. ZORNIA, Gmel. 



Herbs. Leaves digitately 2-4-foliolate ; stipules subfoliaceous, often 

 punctate. Leaflets usually dotted, exstipellate. Flowers in lax racemes ; 

 peduncles terminal and axillary ; bracts twin, lateral, nerved, of the 

 same form as the stipules but larger and broader, each pair enclosing a 

 sessile flower. Calyx small, membranous ; the 2 upper teeth connate. 

 Corolla much exserted ; standard suborbicular, clawed ; wings obliquely 

 obovate or oblong; keel incurved, subrostrate. Stamens monadelphous ; 

 anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile; ovules many; style filiform; 

 stigma small, terminal. Pod jointed, compressed, the upper suture 

 nearly straight, the lower deeply sinuate; joints easily separable, smooth 

 or echinate, indehiscent, flattened, 1-seeded. — Distrib. Species 10, all 

 but 2 American. 



