Plants of the Punjab. 



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Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



like the last species, but flowers in dense sessile heads» 

 pods f in. long, very little recurved, velvety in clusters 

 often sticking out like spokes of a wheel. The seeds are 

 used locallv as medicine 



Astragalus 

 tribuloides, 



Ogai. 



Leguminos^. 

 F, B. I. ii. 122. 

 The Plains, 

 Eawalpmdi. 

 Fatehjang (Douie). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



Astragalus hamosus, like the last species, but stouter, heads stalked, pod 



Akhil-ul-malik. long, cylindrical, smooth, much recurved. This plant is 



Leguminos^. used as an emollient and demulcent. 



F. B. I. ii. 122. 

 The Plains, 

 Lahore, Peshawar. 



Astragalus 

 contortuplicatus. 



Astragalus 

 himalayanus, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 126. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-13,000 ft. 

 Lahul, Kulu. 

 Kashmir. 



Astragalus 

 leucocephalus, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



Kke the last described species, b.ut stems very slender, 

 12-24 in., with distant internodes, flowers hlac, in stalked 

 rounded heads, pods linear-oblong, stalked, almost one- 

 celled, 5-6-seeded. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 



Zornia diphylla, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 147. 

 The Plains to 

 6,000 ft. 



annual, almost erect, tufted, wiry ; leaves stalked of 

 one or two opposite pairs, leaflets |-1 in. long, lanceolate, 

 smooth, leathery, dotted with black glands, stipules lan- 

 ceolate with a long spur ; flowers yellow, ^ in., nearly sessile, 

 in erect axillary loose racemes, 1-3 in. long, bracts in pairs. 



Valleys below Simla leaf-hke fringed, almost hiding the flowers, calyx thin, 

 (Collett). half the length of the petals, teeth 5, 2 upper united. 



2 lateral very short, lowest equal to the upper, standard 

 round, keel incurved, blunt, stamens 10, united, alternately 

 long and short bearing round or oblong anthers, style 

 incurved, smooth ; pod of 2-5 one-seeded joints, prickly, 

 projecting beyond the bracts. 



