556 



Plants'of the Punjab. 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves, 



Petals ununited. 



Indigofera 

 enneaphylla, 



Leguminos-E. 

 F. B. I. ii. 94. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Lahore. 



Indigofera trifoliata, 



LEGUMINOSiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 96. 



The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 



Indigofera 

 anabaptista, 



Astragalus 

 amherstianus, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. Lii. 119. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Chamba. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Lace). 



Astragalus 

 subumbellatus, 



Leguminos.e. 

 F. B. Lii. 119. 

 The Plains to 

 6-7,000 ft. 

 Hazara, Kashmir, 

 Rawalpindi 

 ( Douie), 



annual or perennial, rootstock woody, stems many 

 in a bunch from the root, trailing, with scattered white 

 flat-lying hairs ; leaves 1-1| in., with 5-9 nearly sessile 

 leaflets, leaflets small, firm, lanceolate with a broad tip, 

 notched, tipped with an abrupt point, stipules ovate, 

 tipped with a hard sharp point, thin ; flowers red, small, 

 nearly sessile, in oval dense shortly stalked spike-like 

 heads, bracts lanceolate, long-pointed, thin, calyx hairy, 

 teeth long, bristle-Uke, petals projecting slightly from the 

 calyx, standard ovate with a broad tip, keel straight, not 

 beaked, spui-red on each side near the base, stamens 10, 

 upper stamen free, others united : pod | in., oblong cylin- 

 drical, covered with white flat-lying hairs, seeds 2 with a 

 division. 



perennial, stems much branched, trailing, covered 

 with flat-lying white hairs, leaflets 3, sessile, |-1 in. long, 

 oblong, gland-dotted, flowers small, red, crowded in small 

 sessile racemes, calyx ^ in., teeth long, bristle-hke, corolla 

 3-4 times the calyx, pod Jin., linear, straight, rather angled 

 with 2 narrow wings one each side of either suture, 6-8- 

 seeded ; for other characters see the last species. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 



annual, thickly covered with shining white hairs, 

 stems 6-18 m., tufted, slender, trailing ; leaves 1-1-| in., 

 odd pinnate, leaflets 13-17, narrowly oblong, I in. ; 

 flowers I in. long, pale yellow or pink, in stalked axillary 

 racemes, J-f in. long, bracts miaute, bristle-hke, calyx 

 ^-5 in., teeth bristle-hke, as long as the tube, petals narrow, 

 stalked, standard erect, wings equal to the incurved blunt 

 keel, stamens 10, upper free, others united ; pod | in., 

 sessile, curved, almost divided lengthwise by the lower 

 suture, seeds 10-12. 



like the last species, but petals more than twice as 

 long as the calyx, pod longer, 20-24-seeded. 



