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Plants of the Punjab. 



Climbing Plants with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves, 



Petals ununited. 



circular, spreading, upper Mnallest and innermost stalked, 

 stamens 10, free ; pod 2-3 in., oblong, densely covered with 

 prickles, tipped with the style, seeds 1 or 2, round or ovoid, 

 f in., shining, hard. The powdered seeds are used as a 

 febrifuge, and the seeds are made into necklaces and 

 rosaries. 



Csesalpinia sepiaria, 

 Mysore Thorn, 



Urn, arlei. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 256. 

 The Plains to 

 4.000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley, 

 Basantpur, Subathu 

 (Collett). 



Acacia Intsia, 



Arhai-ka-hel. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 297. 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. 



Rubus niveus, 



Rosa moschata, 



Knji, karir. 



KoSACEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 307. 

 Himalava, 

 4-8,000 'ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



like the last species, but prickle - pale brown, not 

 yellow, flowers larger, racemes long-stalked, not branched, 

 stamens woolly at the base, longer than the petals, pods 

 longer, 3-5 in,, smooth, with a wing on one side, not prickly, 

 seeds 4-8, flattened mottled. 



perennial, downy, prickles minute, hooked, numerous, 

 often in vertical lines ; leaves 2-piunate, 10-18 in. long, 

 pinnae or side branches of main leaf stalk 12-16, leaflet ^ 

 16-24, J-| in., strap-shaped-oblong, stipules soon falling 

 off; flowers I in., pale yellow, in dense round heads, |-| in. 

 diam., formmg large terminal branchmg racemes, bracts 

 minute, lanceolate, calyx broadly funnel-shaped, 4- or 

 5-toothed or lobed, petals 4 or 5, more or less united, sta- 

 mens 50 or more, projecting, free or united at the base ; 

 pod 4-6 by f-lj in., straight, strap-shaped, 8-12-seeded, 

 stalked — Var. Csesia, only differs in the number of leaflets, 

 40-60. 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



perennial, smooth or nearly so, covered with scattered 

 stout, hooked prickles ; leaves 3-6 in., leaflets 3-7, 1-3 in., 

 ovate, nearly equal, toothed, short-pointed, stipules united 

 to the leaf stalks, glandular, awl-shaped; flowers l|-2 in. 

 diam., yellowish -white, fragrant, in large branched velvety, 

 not prickly, clusters, bracts awl-shaped, calyx small, ovoid, 

 lobes 5, h in., lanceolate, long-pointed, often pinnately 

 divided, bent back after flowering, shorter than the petals, 

 petals 5, large, spreading, circular, ovate with broad tip, 

 stamens many, styles united into a column projecting far 

 beyond the calyx tube ; fruit ^ in. diam., almost round, 

 dark brown, consisting of many long hairy achenes, enclosed 

 in the fleshy calyx tube. 



