Plants of ihd Punjab, 



527 



Prossbash Hbbb8 with Opposite Siipulatb Lobbd Leaves, 



Pbvals uwunivbd. 

 Erodium malaooides, see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Stipulate, Lobed. 



Erodium stipaeeum, 



Geraniace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 435. 

 The Plains, 

 west of the Indus, 

 Bannu (Stewart). 



annual, grey, root woody, branches straggling, leaves 

 ^-1 in., oblong, round-toothed, lobed or pinnately divided, 

 stalk slender, flowers ^ in. diam., in several flowered umbels, 

 sepals concave, strongly 3-nerved, silky grey with a 

 hard point, petals narrowly wedge-shaped, equal to the 

 sepals, stamens bristly, inner much longer and broader, 

 fruit 3-4 in. long, slender, rough with transverse wrinkles 

 at the tip of the valves, beak very long, hairs yellow ; 

 foi other characters see the last described species. 



Pbosibaib Hbbbs with Opposite Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Tribulus terrestris, 

 Caltrops, 



Gokhru, lotah, 

 hakhra. 



Zygophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 423. 

 The Plains to 

 11,000 ft. 

 On sandy soil. 

 Lahore, Nurpur, 

 Kangra District. 



Tribulus alatus, 



Gokhri kalan. 

 Zygophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 423. 

 The Plains, 

 Mul an, Dera 

 Ismail Khan. 



Flemingia vestita, 



Leguminos-e. 

 F. B. I. i. 230. 

 Himalaya, 

 ea?t of the Sutlej, 

 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, on grassy 

 slopes (Collett). 



Petals unuxitbd. 



annual or biennial, prostrate, silky branches 12-24 in.; 

 leaves abruptly pinnate, ^-1 in., leaflets 5-7 pairs, almost 

 equal, tipped by a stiff point on a straight edge ; flowers ^-f 

 in. diam., yellow, solitary on stalks shorter than the leaves, 

 sepals 5, ^-^ in., long-pointed, silky, petals 5, soon falling 

 off, spreading, stamens 10, alternately longer and shorter, 

 the latter with a small gland outside, ovary sessile, hairy, 

 5-12-lobed, stigmas 5-12 ; fruit 5-angled of 5-12 cocci with 

 2 long and 2 short spines, smooth or hairy, seeds 2 or 

 more in each cell. This plant is used much as a demul- 

 cent and diuretic, especially the seeds. 



like the last species, but fruit broadly pyramidal, 

 somewhat pointed, cocci hairy, 2-seeded, the spines united 

 into toothed wings. This plant is used in the f^^ame way 

 as the last species. 



velvety or hairy, root tuberous, stem prostrate, trail- 

 ing, 12-24 in.: leaves digitately compound, leaflets 3, 1^ 

 by 1 in., almost sessile, minutely hairy, stipules ^-| in., 

 lanceolate, persistent, leaf stalk ^-1 in., ; flowers |-| in., 

 bright red, in a close cluster of 3-6 on minutoly hairy axil- 

 lary stalks, longer than the leaves, bracts | in., oblong, 

 ^ilky, pointed, soon falling off, calyx ^-f in., densely 

 brown-velvety, teeth 5, narrow, long pointed, lower the 

 the longest, petals 6, haiiy, neaily equal, longei by half 



