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Plants of the Punjab. 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Pod-bearing plants. 



Petals ununited. 



Flowers in spikes or small round heads. 



Mimosa rubicaulis, 



Shiah kanta, vil. 



Leguminos^. 



F. B. I. ii. 291. 



The Plains to 



4,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Eawalpindi. 



Valley below Murree. 



large, branches reddish when young, straggling, 

 slender, grooved, grey downy, armed with many small 

 hooked spines ; leaves bipinnate, 6-9 in., mid-rib prickly, 

 stipules awl-shaped, pinnae 8-12, 1-2 in. long, bristle- 

 like gland between each pair, leaflets 20-24, \ in. long, 

 linear-oblong, with a recurved rigid point ; flowers minute, 

 reddish, turning to white in heads, |-| in. broad, on short 

 stalks in the axils of leaves at the top of the branchlets, 

 corollas -^^'m., stamens ununited, 8, \ in. long ; pod curved, 

 3-4 by I in., 6-10-seeded, joints square, separating from the 

 sutures. 



Mimosa hamata, 



LeGUMINOSjE. 



F. B. I. ii. 291. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Hughes-Buller). 



like the last, but pinnae fewer and the sutures oi tiie 

 pods armed with large hooked prickles. 



Not Pod-bearing plants. 



Petals ununited. 



Spiraea vestita, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobod. 



Spiraea Aruncus, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



Spiraea sorbifolia, 



Rosace^.. 



F. B. I. ii. 324. 



Himalaya, 

 7-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collott). 

 Hazara (Barrett). 



large, branches smooth except at first, when rather 

 hairy ; leaves even- rarely odd- pinnate, 8-12 in. long, 

 stipules linear, awl-shaped, leaflets 12-18 or 13-19, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, 2-4 in., sharply toothed, long-pointed, 

 end one, if present, may be lobed ; flowers | in. diam., 

 white, in terminal branching racemes, 6-12 in. long, calyx 

 cup-shaped, 5-lobed, petals 5, rounded stamens about 20, 

 rarely united at the base ; carpels 5, smooth or velvety. 



