PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



104;:! 



Herbs, erect, avith Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Leaflets Many. 



Petals Dissimilar. 



hairs, calyx | in., tubular, thinly covered with hori- 

 zontal black hairs, teeth 5, linear, feathered in 

 black, petals, stamens and style like those in the 

 last species ; pod \-^ in. oblong, expanded, straight, 

 short-stalked, with a few silky black hairs 6-8 

 seeded. 



Onobhrychis Stewartii. 



Leguminos.e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 141. 

 The Plains. 

 Hazara (Stewart). 

 Rawalpindi (Aitchison) 

 Kot Futteh Khan. 

 Rawalpindi District. 

 (Douie). 



medium size, annual, stem slender, becoming 

 smooth; leaves 3-4 in., including stalk, stipules 

 linear, minute, leaflets 9-11, ^-f in. long, lanceolate 

 with broad tip, nearly short-pointed, wide apart, 

 somewhat hairy ; flowers red, -j in., in long stalked 

 axillary racemes, 6-9 in., bracts linear, minute ; 

 calyx ji. in., bell-shaped, silky, teeth 5, lanceolate, 

 petals 5, standard broad, smooth, . veined, wings 

 short, keel blunt, stamens 10, all united, style 

 thread-like, incurved ; pod i-J in., kidney-shaped, 

 expanded, faces woody, deeply honey-combed, 

 edge armed with close minute spines, one-seeded. 

 Douie found the stipules larger than minute, and 

 the stamens not all united. 



Hedysarum astragaloides. 



LEC4UMINOS-E. 



F. B. I. ii. 146. 

 Himalaya 11-12,000 ft. 

 Kishtwar (Thomson). 

 Lahul (Jaeschke). 



medium size, stems robust, becoming grey velvety 

 at first; leaves including the stalk, 4-8 in. long, 

 leaflets 21-29, |-1 in., linear-oblong, blunt with a 

 minute point, smoothish above, persistently grey 

 velvety beneath ; flowers | in., red in very dense 

 racemes 2-3 in. long, bracts linear thin projecting 

 beyond the buds, calyx J in., bell-shaped, finely 

 silky, teeth 5, petals o, standard shorter than the 

 keel, keel blunt, stamens 10, upper free, lower ones 

 united, style thread-like, very long, abruptly bent ; 

 pod stalked, distinctly one or two-jointed, joints 

 oblong, thin, with a crisped wing below, less 

 marked one above. 



