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Plants of the Punjah. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



^schynomene 

 indica, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 151. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Valleys below Simla 

 (Collett). 

 Phalia, Gujrat 

 District (Douie* . 



Uraria picta, 



Dahra, deter. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 155. 

 The Plains to 

 6,000 ft. 



Leaflets many. 



large, annual, pale green, stem smooth, branches 

 many, cylindrical, often slightly rough with tubercles ; 

 leaves 2-3 in., stalk sticky with glands, stipules linear- 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, with processes at the base, soon 

 falling off, leaflets 41-61, sensitive, very small, upper ones 

 smallest, overlapping, alternate, narrowly oblong, rounded 

 mth a small point ; flowers | in., yellow, often with purple 

 streaks, in many, sticky, axillary racemes, bracts small, 

 lanceolate, fringed with hairs, calyx ^ in., smooth, deeply 

 2-lipped, hps faintly toothed, petals 5, standard circular, 

 erect, keel nearly straight, blunt, stamens 10 in 2 bundles 

 of 5. style incurved, smooth ; pod 1-1 1 in. long, linear, 

 stalked, flattened, smooth, straight or rather curved, upper 

 suture straight, lower indented, joints 6-10, smooth or 

 finally rough with nipple-like processes, one seed in each 

 joint. The allied species, M. aspera, yields the pith (scla) 

 from which sun hats are made. 



large, perennial, stem finely downy, robust, branches 

 few; leaves 10-12 in. long, lowest simple or of 3 leaflets, 

 rounded or oblong, upper of 5-9 leaflets, mid-stalk downy, 

 stipules I in., lanceolate, long-pointed, leaflets 4-8 in., 

 linear-lanceolate, leathery, smooth, clouded with white 

 above, net-veined, minutely velvety beneath ; flowers 

 I in., purple, in dense cylindrical racemes, 6-12 by 

 f-f in., bracts brown, thin, soon falling off, minor flower 

 stalks bristly, abruptly incurved at the tip after flowering, 

 calyx ^ in., tube very short, teeth 5, 2 upper short, lower 

 long, bristle-like, petals 5, standard broad, wings united 

 to the keel, stamens 10, upper one free, lower ones united, 

 style thread-like, sharply bent ; pod of 3-6 joints, joints 

 small, swollen, one-seeded, polished, often placed face to 

 face. The seeds are used to cm'e ulcers in the mouth. 



Cicer arietinum, 

 Gram or Chick-pea, 



Ghana. 



LEGUMIN0S.E. 



F. B. I. ii. 176. 

 The Plains to 

 2,000 ft. 

 Commonly 

 cultivated. 



small, annual, sticky, much branched ; leaves 1-2 

 in., stipules small, obliquely ovate, with a few long teeth, 

 strongly veined, leaflets 13 or so, | in. long, ovate or oblong, 

 deeply cut, strongly veined ; flowers | in., pink, blue or 

 white, solitary, axillary on stalks |-f in., calyx \-\ in., teeth 

 5, linear, nearly equal, petals 5, standard broad, longer 

 than the wngs and keel, stamens 10, upper free, lower 

 united, style incurved, beardless ; pod -|-1 in., swollen, 

 velvety, sessile, narrowed into the persistent style, seeds 2, 



