PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 1037 



Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 

 Leaflets Many. 



Tephrosia purpuraa, 



Sarphank'i. 



liEGUMINOS-E. 



F. B. I. ii. 112. 

 The Plains to 6,000 ft. 

 Simla (CoUett). 

 Baluchistan (Hughes- 

 Buller.) 



Petals Dissimilar. 



medium size, perennial, much branched, stems 

 slender, cylindrical ; leaves 3-6 in., pinnate, shortly 

 stalked, stipules linear-awl-shaped, leaflets 13-21, 

 narrow, lanceolate with a broad tip, blunt, green, 

 smooth above, silky beneath; flowers |-f in., red, 

 thinly silky in leaf opposed loose-flowered racemes, 

 3-6 in. long, bracteoles minute, calyx ^-| in., silky, 

 teeth 5, two upper teeth longer than the three lower, 

 petals 5, J-f in., standard circular, silky without 

 keel, petals united, blunt, stamens 10, upper free, 

 others united, style curved, smooth, tuft of hairs 

 at the tip ; pod 1^-2 by r, in. sessile, velvety, flat, 

 seeds 6-10. 



Tephrosta villosa, small, perennial, stems zigzag, woody, finely 



Lec4UMINOS.e. downy with white flat-lying hairs ; leaves 2-3 in. 



¥. B. I. ii. 113. long, nearly sessile, stipules linear, ascending or 



The Plains. reflexed, leaflets 13-19, grey green, nearly smooth 



above, silky below, narrow lanceolate with the tip 

 broad and often notched ; flowers § in., red in 

 racemes, six or more inches long, lower flowers in 

 distant separate clusters of stalks, bracts bristle- 

 like, feathered, calyx 4-^ in., very silky, teeth i), 

 bristle-like, lower longer than the calyx tube, 

 petals 5, not much longer than the calyx, stamens 

 and style as in the last species, pod l-lj in. long., 

 i-5 in. broad, densely velvety, curved, sharply bent 

 down. 



Tephrosia pauciflora, 



Leguminos-^. 

 F. B. L ii. 114. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Lace.) 



very like the last species, but leaflets 5-9, flowers 

 stalked in pairs in the axils of leaves. 



