560 



Plants of the Punjab, 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Desmodium 

 parvifolium, 



Khetsunsuni, 



Leguminos-s;. 



F. B. I. ii. 174. 



The Plains to 



6,000 ft, 



Simla, Summer Hill 



(CoUett). 



Vigna vexillata, 



Rhynchosia aurea, 



Rhynchosia minima, 



Rhynchosia 

 Falconeri, 



Rhynchosia 

 himalensis, 



Flemingia congesta, 

 var. semialata, 

 Bara salpan, 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 229. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-5,000 ft. 

 Chamba. 



like the last species, but stems trailing, not rootiug 

 at the joints, stipules as long as the leaf-stalks, corolla 

 purple, pod straight, both margias deeply indented. 

 This is also a good fodder plant. 



see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 

 see CUmbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 

 see CUmbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 

 see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



see Climbing Plants, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 



perennial, stems slender, triangular, trailing ; leaves of 

 3 leaflets, leaf stalks winged, leaflets lanceolate, stipules | 

 in. long, lanceolate, soon falling off, end one wedge-shaped, 

 lateral ones obHquely rounded at the base, lower surface 

 with a few minute red glands and silky hairs on the veins ; 

 flowers white with purple in long loose branching racemes, 

 often longer than the leaves, bracts |-| in., silky on the 

 back, soon fallmg off, calyx |-| m., densely covered with 

 silky brown hairs, teeth linear-lanceolate, lowest longest, 

 corolla hardly protruding from the calyx ; pod f in., oblong, 

 slightly downy, 2-seeded, seeds small, round, black, smooth, 

 shinmg. Waras, the yellow dye, is obtained from the 

 glands on the pods of a variety of this species. 



Flemingia vestita, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 280. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, on grassy 

 slopes (Collet t). 



perennial, root tuberous, edible, said to be sometimes 

 cultivated, stems trailing, 12-24 in., branched, densely 

 covered with short grey hairs ; leaves 2 in, long, leaflets 3, 

 closely touching, |-1 in. across, ovate with a broad tip, 

 base wedge-shaped, minutely hairy on both sides, stipules 

 I'l in., persistent, lanceolate ; flowers | in., bright red, 

 in small dense 3-6-flowered heads on long axillary stalks 



