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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals ununited. 



Crotalaria 

 mysorensis, 



Leguminosje. 

 F. B. I. ii. 70. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Hazara (Douio). 



medium size, anmial, much branched, covered with 

 long silky hairs ; leaves 1-3 in. long, linear-oblong, rounded 

 at both ends, thinly silky, stipules small, linear, persis- 

 tent ; flowers |-| in. long, j^ellow, in terminal and lateral 

 stalked racemes, 6-9 in. long, bracts lanceolate, leafy, 

 calyx |-| in. long, silky, teeth 5, all long, upper lanceo- 

 late, lower linear, corolla not projecting beyond the calyx, 

 petals 5, upper (standard) broad, round, stalked, lateral 

 oblong, shorter, lower two united to form the keel, equal 

 to the lateral, much curved in and beaked, stamens 10, 

 united behind, style long, abruptly incurved at the end, 

 bearded above ; pod nearly sessile, twice the length of 

 the calyx, oblong, smooth, 20-30 seeded. 



Crotalaria sessiliflora, 



LEGUMINOSiB. 



F. B. I. ii. 73. 



The Plains to 

 6,000 ft. 



Simla, Chadwick 

 Falls, Waterworks 

 Eoad (Collett). 

 Jakku above the 

 Ladies' Mile. 

 Hazara (Douie). 



medium size, annual, stem unbranched or branched, 

 silky, leaves 2-6 in., linear or lanceolate, narrowed to 

 both ends, thick, smooth above, thinly silky below, sti- 

 pules bristle-like, very small, flowers \ in., blue, rarely 

 yellow, not projecting beyond the calyx, sharply bent 

 down, lower flowers often axillary, upper crowded in 

 racemes, 2-20 flowered, racemes 6-9 in. long, bracts and 

 bracteoles bristle-like, persistent, calyx |-| in. long, brown 

 silky, teeth all short-pointed, upper \ in. broad, corolla 

 smooth, pod sessile, smooth, \ in., seeds 10-15 ; otherwise 

 like the last species. 



Indigofera linif olia, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 



Indigofera cordifolia, 



Leguminos.e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 93. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. in the 

 Chenab Valley. 

 Kahuta (Douie). 

 Baluchistan (Baker). 



small, annual, much branched, spreading, covered 

 with flat-lying white hairs ; leaves |-f in., ovate, heart- 

 shaped, apex a nearly straight edge, with a large stiff point, 

 densely hairy beneath, stipules minute, bristle-like ; flowers 

 ■i in., red, 4 to 8 crowded together in a sessile cluster, calyx 

 5-toothed, tube short, teeth long, bristle-like, very hairy, 

 corolla not projecting beyond the calyx, petals 5, upper one 

 (standard) rounded, 2 lower ones united (keel) straight, not 

 beaked, spurred on each side at the base, stamens 10, upper 

 one free, the others united, anthers tipped with a minute 

 point, style short, curved inwards ; pod \ in. long or less, 

 oblong, cyhndrical, beaked, 2-seeded, seeds ovate, yellow. 



