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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Cassia obovata 

 or obtusa, 

 Indian Senna, 



LEGUMINOSiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 264. 

 The Plains. 

 Delhi, Salt Eange, 

 Derajat. 

 Balucliistan 

 (Boissier). 



Leaflets many. 



medium size, annual or perennial, nearly smooth, 

 branches angular, leaves 2-3 in., stalked, no gland between 

 the leaflets, stipules lanceolate, persistent, leaflets 8-12, 

 |-1| in. long, oblong-ovate with a broad tip, rounded with a 

 minute point, thin, a waxy bluish gloss beneath, flowers 

 f in., pale yellow, in narrow few-flowered stalked racemes, 

 2-3 in., calyx segments blunt, smooth, stamens very un- 

 equal, pods 1-1| in. long, shortly stalked, much curved, 

 rounded at the ends, flexible, smooth, seeds 6-12, separated 

 by very tliin partitions ; otherwise like the last species, and 

 with the same properties. 



Cassia Absus, 



Chaksu, hanar. 



Leguminos^. 



F B. I. ii. 265. 



The Plains to 



5,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Dharmpur. 



medium size, annual or biennial, covered with grey 

 sticky hairs ; leaves l|-3 in., long-stalked, a small gland 

 on the main stalk between every pair of leaflets, stipules 

 small, linear, persistent, short-pointed, leaflets 4, 1-2 in. 

 long, oblong, blunt or nearly short-pointed, unequal at the 

 base, hairy beneath as well as above ; flowers I in. diam., 

 red-yellow in few-flowered erect narrow short racemes, 

 calyx of 5 narrow segments, ^-^ in. long, lanceolate, bristly, 

 petals 5, nearly equal wdth long stalks, veined, stamens 5. 

 equal, perfect ; pod 1-1| in., strap-shaped, oblique, seeds 5, 

 flattened, dark brown, shining. The seeds are purgative 

 and used in ophthalmia. 



Cassia mimosoides, 

 var. dimidiata. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



Spirsea Aruncus, 

 Meadow sweet, 



EoSACEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 323. 



Himalaya, 

 8-10 000 ft. 

 Hattu (Collett' . 



large, rootstock perennial, shrub-like, smoothish ; 

 leaves 6 12 in., 2- to 3-pinnate, primary and secondary leaf 

 stalks long, leaflet-stalks short, stipules rudimentary, leaf- 

 lets usually in threes, 1-3 in. long, ovate, sharply and ir- 

 regularly toothed, narrowed into a tail-like tip ; flowers 

 ^-j in., many, white, one-sexual, male and female on differ- 

 ent plants, in long slender velvety branching racemes, 

 calyx persistent, lobes 5, oblong, ovate, petals 5, orbicular, 

 stamens 20 or more, sometimes united below, styles 5 or 

 more, nearly terminal ; follicles 6 or more, swollen, smooth, 

 shining, seeds few. This plant is often mistaken for Astilbe 

 rivularis, but the latter has no petals. 



