Plants of the Punjab. 



105 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Pod-bearing plants. 



Petals ununited. 



Cassia occidentalis, 

 Coffee Senna, 



Kasunda. 



Leguminos^. 



F. B. I. ii. 262. 



The Plains. 



Gurgaon. 



Baluchistan 



(Hughes-Buller). 



Leaflets many. 



medium size, often annual, nearly smooth, spread- 

 ing ; leaves 6 in. long, with a bluish-waxy gloss, stalk 

 with a single gland at the base, leaflets 6-10, 1-3 in. 

 long, opposite, shortly-stalked, ovate-oblong, or lan- 

 ceolate, long-pointed, offensive when crushed ; flowers 

 I in., yellow, veined with orange, in axillary shortly- 

 stalked clusters, forming branching terminal racemes, 

 bracts | in. long, ovate, long-pointed, white tinged 

 with pink, soon falling off, calyx 5-fid to the base, 

 lobes blunt, petals 5, broad, nearly equal, stamens 10, 

 3 upper without anthers, 2 lateral pairs with small anthers, 

 3 lower longer and with larger anthers, anthers brown, 

 style incurved ; pod 4-5 by I in., curved, cylindrical with 

 slight contractions, flattened, seeds 15-30, pale brown. 

 A common weed originally introduced from America. 

 The seeds are used by negroes as a substitute for coffee. 



Cassia Sopliera, 



Kasunda. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 262. 

 The Plains. 



like the last species, but larger, with larger leaves 

 and more leaflets, petals scarcely veined, pods not flat- 

 tened, nor cylindrical, with shght contractions, seeds dark 

 brown. 



Caesalpinia 

 puicherrima, 



see Trees, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



Flowers in spikes or small round heads. 



Dichrostachys 

 cinerea, 



Vertuli. 

 Leguminos^,. 

 F. B. L ii. 288. 

 Delhi (Duthie). 



largo, branches rigid, thorny, branchlets many, vol- 

 voty, terminating in spines ; leaves bipinnate, 1-2 in. long, 

 piiinse 10-20, stalked glands at the base of each pair, leaf- 

 lots 24-30, minute, strap-shaped, sessile, leathery, y^*^ 

 in. long ; flowers minute, yellow, on spikes, shortly-stalked, 

 axillary, flowers at the base of the spike with white, red 

 or purple staminodos, ^r in. long ; pod 2-3 by |-| in., 6-10- 

 s ceded, dry, smooth. 



