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HeKBS, EllECT, WITH AlTEKXATE STIPULATE LoBEL) LeAVES. 



Petals Ununited. 



Peganum harmala, 



Harmal, 



ZyGOPH YLl ACE^ . 



F. B. I. i. 486. 



The Plains to 5,000 ft 



Kashmir. 



medium-size, root perennial, stem and branches 

 annual, bushy, smooth, pale-green, leaves 2-3 in., 

 much divided, lobes or segments linear, short point- 

 ed, stipules bristle-like; flowers ^-J in. diam., white, 

 solitarj^, sessile or stalked in the a'sils of branches, 

 sepals 4-5, linear, short-pointed, persistent, usually 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). longer than the petals, petals 4-5, oblong, nearly 

 equal, soon falling off, stamens 12-15, broad below, 

 some without anthers, styles twisted, 2-3, keeled 

 above ; capsule l-^ in. diam., depressed above, lobed, 

 splitting into 3 valves, seeds many, angled. A red 

 dye is obtained from the seeds and different parts 

 of the plant are used in native medicine. 



Lourea vespertilionis, 



Lbguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 164. 

 The Plains. 



Spiraea vestita, 



RoSACEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 323. 

 Himalaya, 7-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 

 Hattu (Collett). 



small, annual, slender, stems finely downy ; leaves 

 |-1 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, divided into two equal 

 lobes, linear, apex of each broadly notched and bris- 

 tle-tipped, rarely one leaflet on each side making a 

 compound leaf, side leaflets smaller, obliquely tri- 

 angular with the point inwards ; flowers J-J in., in 

 simple or rarely branched racemes, 3-6 in., calyx \ 

 in., bell-shaped, teeth lanceolate equal to the calyx- 

 tube, petals 5, standard broad, keel blunt, stamens 

 10, not all united, style thread-like, incurved ; pod 

 smooth, veined, joints 4-5, and each one seeded, all 

 included in the enlarged calyx. 



mediuin size, shrubby, root perennial, stems velvety, 

 very like Meadow Sweet, Spircea Ulmarsa; leaves 2-12 

 in., irregularly divided into lobes, lateral lobes few 

 or many, sharply toothed, small, or one or two pairs If 

 in. long, terminal lobe 2-6 in. diam., deeply cut into 

 three to five sharply toothed, long-pointed segments, 

 upj)er surface smooth, lower white-felted, stipules 

 half circular, large, sharply toothed, persistent ; 

 flowers J in. diam., white in large oblong much 

 branched terminal clusters, calyx 4-5-lobed, very 

 small, lobes blunt, persistent, petals 4-5-oblong- 

 rounded, stamens many, styles many, nearly termi- 

 nal: carpels many, ununited, woolly, 2 seeded. 



