N. 0. LEGUMINOS^E. 421 



Habitat : — West Himalayas, Temperate Zone, Simla, 

 Kumaon and Garwhal. 



Low shrubs, with basifixed hairs. Main stems not produced ; 

 branchlets, with densely crowded nodes. Tufts densely con- 

 gested, armed with the very crowded leaf-rachises which are 

 l|-3in. long Stipules £in., lanceolate, adnate only at the very 

 base ; leaflets 21-31 mostly crowded, obovate oblong, T ^-|in. 

 long ; thick in texture, dull green, clothed with silky hairs. 

 Pedicels iVf* 11 - 5 bracts linear, exceeding the pedicels. Flowers 

 1-2 together in leaf axils, usually not peduncled. Calyx gibbous, 

 fin., thinly silky ; teeth linear setaceous, half as long as the 

 tube. Corolla Jin , yellow ; standard exceeding wings and 

 keel ; stigma naked. Pods sessile, oblong, turgid, bilocular, 

 12-14-seeded, clothed with fine grey silky hairs. 



Use : — The seeds are given for colic, and also for leprosy 

 (Stewart). 



366. Tavernierea nummularia, D.C., h. f. b. i„, 

 ii. 140. 



Vern. : — Jetimad (Sindhi, Bombay.). 



Habitat :— Plains of Sind and the Punjab ; Deccan. 

 A copiously-branched under-shrub, l-2ft. high, with slender, 

 finely canescent, terete branches. Leaves shortly petioled, 

 usually 3-foliate. Leaflets very variable in size, J-lin. long, 

 obovate-oblong or nearly round, thick, pale green, thinly can- 

 escent beneath, the side ones not opposite. Stipules free, 

 minute, lanceolate, scariose. Racemes few or many-flowered, 

 usually exceeding the leaves. Calyx 1-iin., thinly silky. 

 Corolla red, glabrous, l-Jhi. Joints of pod 1-4, roundish. 



Use :— The leaves of this plant are said to be useful in the 

 form of a poultice, as an application to sloughing ulcers to 

 keep them clean (Murray 123). 



574. 



367. Alhagi maurorum, Desv. h.f.b.i., ii. 145. 

 Syn. :— A mannifera, Desv, Hedysarum Alhagi Linn., Roxb. 



