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Plants oj ihe Punjab. 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Pod-bearing plants. 

 Petals ununited. 



Leaflets three. 



Cajanus indicus, 

 Pigeon pea, 



Arhar dal. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. Lii. 217. 

 The Plains to 

 6.000 ft. 



medium size, much cultivated as a food-grain, branches 

 many, grooA'"ed, silky ; leaflets 3, oblong-lanceolate, 

 pointed, densely silky beneath, stipules niinute, lanceolate ; 

 flowers f in. long, yellow, streaked with red veins, in 

 branching axillary or terminal racemes, calyx I in., 

 corolla f in., stamens 10, all united but the upper one ; 

 pod 2-3 in. long, finely downy, often marked with reddish- 

 purple streaks, seeds 3-5, the size of a small pea, yellow 

 and red to brown or black. This plant is cultivated for 

 its excellent pulse. 



Rhynchosia 

 Pseudo cajan, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 223. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-9,000'ft. 

 Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). 

 Hazara, Murree. 



medium size, branches slender, twiggy, white-felted, 

 longitudinally ribbed ; leaves 1-3 by 1-4 in., grey green, 

 velvety above, white woolly beneath, leaflets 3, |-2 by 

 |-1^ in., lateral sessile, terminal stalked, largest, ob- 

 long, apex triangular, stipules minute, soon falling off ; 

 flowers ^ in. long, yellow, in short-stalked close axillary 

 clusters, calyx f in., 5-toothed, lowest tooth longest, linear 

 bristly, all densely woolly, corolla |-| in., stamens 10, all 

 united but one, the uppermost ; pod 1 by | in., straight, 

 flattened, grey woolly, 1-2-seeded. 



Leaflets many. 



Indigofera tinctoria, 

 The Indigo Plant, 



Nil 



LEGUMINOSiR. 



F. B. I. ii. 99. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, cultivated, branches twiggy, tough, 

 angular, thinly covered with silvery hairs, hnng flat against 

 the stem : leaves 2-3 in. long with a stalk -l-l in. long, 

 stipules minute, awl-hke, leaflets 7-13, shortly stalked, 

 f-1 in. long, ovate-oblong, or nearly circular, waxy 

 bluish-green above, silvery beneath, bristle like ; flowers 

 reddish-yellow, very small on stalked, erect, spike-like 

 racemes, many-flowered, shorter than the leaves, bracts 

 awl-shaped, calyx -^ in., silvery, teeth as long as the tube, 

 corolla longer than the calyx, stamens 10, all united but 

 the upper one, anthers with pointed, tip; pod 1-1|^ in. 

 long, yV in. thick, nearly smooth, 8-12-seeded, without 

 contractions. This plant yields the indigo of com- 

 merce. 



