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Plants oj the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Potentilla 

 argyrophylla, 



RoSACEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 356. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-13,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Matiana, Narkanda 

 (Collett). 



Leaflets two-three. 



large, perennial, rootstock very stout, stem velvety, 

 robust ; leaves digitately compound, leaflets 3, 2-3 in., 

 sessile or stalked, ovate, coarsely toothed, green, and finely 

 hairy above, white-felted beneath, main leaf stalk C-3 in., 

 stipules united to the leaf stalk-base, ovate-oblong, short- 

 pointed ; flowers f-li in. diam., yellow or dark purple, in 

 terminal branched racemes, bracttoles 5, oblong, blunt, 

 short- or long-pointed, calyx silky, persistent, lobes 5, 

 alternating with the bracteoles, long-pointed, petals 5, 

 heart-shaped with the notch outwards, stamens many, 

 styles lateral short, persistent, carpels very many, small, 

 crowded on a small dry receptacle ; fruit is a head of many 

 hard smooth achenes, covered by the overlapping calyx 

 lobes ; achenes one-seeded. 



Leaflets many. 



Indigofera hirsuta, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. L ii. 98. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 



large, annual or biennial, densely hairy, with laterally 

 attached hairs ; leaves pinnate, 2-5 in., shortly stalked, 

 leaflets 5-11, 1-2 in. long, opposite, ovate with a broad tip, 

 membranous, grey-green, stipules bristle-like, feathered ; 

 flowers } in., red, in dense slender hair}' axillary racemes, 

 2-6 in. long, bracts minute, calyx | in., densely velvety, 

 teeth 5, bristle-like, long feathered, petals 5, not much 

 longer than the calyx, soon falling off, standard ovate with 

 a broad tip, keel petals united, straight, not beaked, 

 spurred on each side near the base, stamens 10, upper 

 free, the rest united, anthers tipped with a minute point, 

 style smooth, incurved ; pod ^ 

 densely velvety, 6- 8- seeded. 



2-| in. long, cylindrical, 



Indigofera 

 anabaptista, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I.ii. 102. 

 The Plains. 



small, annual, branches spreading, covered thinly 

 with hairs like those of the last species, but always white, 

 leaves pinnate, shortly stacked, leaflets 3-7, opposite, |-1 

 in. long, lanceolate with a broad tip, stipules bristle-hke, 

 presistent; flowers | in., scarcely longer than the calyx, in 

 short, dense, 12-20-flowered racemes, calyx |- in., silvery 

 haired, teeth bristly, pod linear, reflexed ; in other respects 

 like the last species. 



