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Plants of the Punjab, 



Prostrate Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Lhavbb. 



Pbtals ununited. 



hardly protruding from the calyx, petals nearly equal, 

 upper petal (standard) broadly ovate, spreading, keel 

 (lower) petals incurved, blunt, stamens 10, upper one free, 

 others united, style incurved, thicker in the middle, tip 

 smooth, stigma small; pod ^ in,, short, oblong, swollen, 

 seeds 1 or 2. 



Prunus prostrata, 



Cotoneaster, 

 nummularia, 



Cotoneaster 

 microphylla, 



Rosacea, 

 P. B. I. ii. 387, 

 Himalaya, 

 4-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Narkanda, Hattu, 

 Kashmir, 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 

 see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



small, dense, intricately branched ; leaves |-| in., 

 ovate, short-po nted or blunt, dark green, shining above, 

 velvety or felted beneath, margins recurved, stipules bristle- 

 like, soon falling off; flowers | in., white, usually solitary, 

 axillary, calyx tube bell-shaped, lobes 5, short, persistent, 

 petals 6, round, stamens many, styles 2 5, stigmas round ; 

 berry ^ in., round, bright red, containing 2-5 bony one- 

 seeded nutlets. 



Petals none. 



Ficus f oveolata, see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Prostrate Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Flemingia congesta, 

 var. semialata, 



Rubus maeilentus. 



Rosacea. 



F. B. I. ii. 336. 



Himalaya, 



4-6.000 ft. 



Ha-^ara (Stewart). 



Petals ununited. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 



nearly smooth, without glands, prickly, trailing, stems 

 stout, red brown, bluntly angled, shining, prickles ^-| 

 in., much flattened, stout, straight or hooked ; leaves com- 

 pound, leaflets 3, |-2 in., rigidly leathery, brown when 

 dry, smooth on both sides, terminal leaflet ovate-lanceo- 

 late, long-pointed, lateral ones sessile, smaller, sometimes 

 circular, mid-rib beneath with hooded prickles, stalk stiff 

 sometimes velvety along the grooved upper surface, doubly 

 round-toothed, stipules bristly ; flowers ^ in. diam., in 

 flat-topped branching 1-3-flowered racemes, ma'n flower 

 stalk I'l in., velvety, axillary or almost terminal, calyx 

 without bracteoles, persistent, silky outside, felted within 

 tube spreading, 5-lobed, lobes tailed, erect in fruit, petals 5, 



