PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Herbs, ekect, with Alterxaxe Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals Ununited. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple- 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Portulaca oleracea, 

 Crotalaria humifusa, 

 Crotalaria prostrata, 

 Crotalaria hirsuta, 

 Crotalaria alata, 



Crotalaria mysorensis, medium-size, annual, much branched, covered 



Leguminos^.. with long silky hairs ; leaves 1-3 in. long, linear- 



F. B. I. ii. 70. oblong, rounded at both ends, thinly silky, stipules 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. small, linear, persistent ; flowers -^-f in. long, yel- 



Hazara (Douie). low in terminal and lateral, stalked racemes, 



6-9 in. long, bracts lanceolate, leafy, calyx ^-f in. 



long, silky ; teeth •">, all long, upper lanceolate, 



lower linear, corolla not projecting beyond the 



catyx, petals o, upper (standard) broad, round, 



stalked, lateral oblong, shorter, lower two united 



to form the keel, equal to the lateral, much curved 



in, and beaked, stamens 10, united behind, style 



long, abruptly incurved at the end, bearded above ; 



pod nearly sessile, twice the length of the calyx, 



oblong, smooth, 20-30 seeded. 



Crotalaria sessilif lora. 



LEGUMINOSiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 73. 



The Plains to 6,000 ft. 

 Simla, Chadwick Falls 



Waterworks Road 



(Collett). 

 Jakku above the 



Ladies' Mile. 

 Hazara (Douie). 



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medium-size, annual, stem unbranched or bran- 

 ched, silky ; leaves 2-6 in., linear or lanceolate, 

 narrowed to both ends, thick, smooth above, 

 thinly silky below, stipules bristle-like, very small ; 

 flowers 5 in., blue, rarely yellow, not projecting 

 beyond the calyx, sharply bent down, lower flowers 

 often axillary, upper crowded in racemes, 2-20 

 flowered, racemes 6-9 in. long, bracts and bracteo- 

 les bristle-like, persistent, calyx |-f in. long, brown 

 silky, teeth all short pointed, upper ^ in. broad, 

 corolla smooth ; pod sessile, smooth, f in., seeds 

 10-1-5 ; otherwise like the last species. 



