LEGUMINOS^. 



473 



alt. 3. p. 309.) root creeping ; stems herbaceous, erect, clothed p. 249. and p. 263. no. 134. of the present volume) stems erect, 

 with white tomentum; stipulas ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, pubescent; stipulas distinct, separate from the petioles ; leaves 

 free, glabrous inside ; leaves with 7-10 pairs of nearly orbicular, 

 mucronate leaflets ; peduncles about equal in length to the 



with 1 1-12 pairs of oblong pubescent leaflets ; racemes pedun- 

 culate, many-flowered, longer than the leaves ; legumes inflated, 



leaves; calyxes woolly, at length bladdery; legumes inflated, a little arched ; racemes axillary at the tops of the shoots. l/.H. 



Native of Nipaul. Flowers greenish yellow. 



Green-spiked Milk-vetch. Fl. Sept. Oct. Clt. 1823. PL 

 2 to 4 feet. 



60 Astra'galus podoca'rpus (Meyer, verz. pfl. p. 112.) 

 plant clothed with adpressed, canescent down ; stems branched, 

 diffuse, or erect ; stipulas free, lanceolate ; leaflets 3-6 pairs, 

 elongated, nearly linear, acute; peduncles very long; spikes 



ovate, ending in a long reflexed acumen, glabrous, 2-celled, 

 much larger than the calyx. '2^. H. Native of Altaia, in sand 

 at the river Irtysch. Corolla purplish-violet. To follow A. 

 megalmthus, D. C. p. 259. no, 80. of the present volume. 

 Very-rvJdte Milk-vetch. Fl. June. PL 1 foot. 



§ 7. Annular es^ p. 259. 



54 Astra'galus orbicula'tus (Led. fl. ross. alt. t. 290, fl, alt. dense-flowered, oblong ; legumes stipitate, erect, oblong, clothed 

 8. p. 311.) plant villous and procumbent, or erectish; leaves with pili, longer than the calyx. %. H. Native of Persia, 

 \\ith 6-11 pairs of nearly orbicular mucronate leaflets ; stipulas near Swant, on the mountains of Talusch, at the height of 2000 

 ovate, acute; racemes usually 3-flowered, pedunculate ; pedun- " ~~ - -- — . .. 



cles one-half the length of the leaves ; bracteas and teeth of calyx 

 lanceolate-linear ; ovary oblong, densely clothed with pili, on a 

 glabrous stipe 



desert. Corolla white. To follow A. striatellus, Bieb. p7 260. 



1/. H. Native of Altaia, in the Soongarian 



no. 8C. of the present volume. 

 Or6icw/ar-leafletted Milk-vetch. Fl. May, June. PI. proc. 



§8, Synochreatif p. 261. 



55 Astra'galus rariflorus (Led- fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 88. fl. 

 alt. 3. p. 313.) plant ascending, sufTruticose, clothed with ad- 

 pressed hoary pili ; leaves with 5-11 oblong-linear leaflets ; pe- 

 duncles much longer than the leaves ; flowers remote, on short 

 pedicels, seciind; legumes subulate, triquetrous, a little arched, 

 norizontal, clothed with white villi, 3 or 4 times longer than the 

 ^lyx. 7^. H, Native of Altaia, in the Soongarian desert, in 

 dry salt fields about the mountains of Tschingistan. Corolla 

 cream-coloured. ToM\ow A. microphyllus, Lin. p._26I.no. 108. 



Scarce-flowered 



feet. Flowers yellowish. To follow A, galegifSrmisy Lin. 

 p. 263, no. 137. of the present volume. 

 Foot'frtiited Milk-vetch. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



§ 13. Tragacdnthce, p. 265. 



61 Astra'galus Siri'nicus (Tenore, fl. neap, protl, 5. ex. 

 Schlecht.Linnsea. 5. p. 102.) shrubby; petioles spinescent; leaves 

 with 14 pairs of elliptic-oblong bluntish leaflets, beset with ad- 

 pressed pili on both surfaces ; peduncles rather shorter than the 



leaves, from 2-10, disposed in a racemose spike ; calyx clothed 

 with black and white hairs ; the teeth setaceous : corolla yellow, 

 3-times the length of the calyx ; bracteas linear, setaceous, 3- 

 times the length of the pedicels ; legumes villous. 1/. H. Na- 

 tive of Naples, on Mount Sirini, near Lagonegro in rocky mea- 

 dows. This species differs from A. retusus, Willd. p. 267. no. 

 185. of the present volume, in the flowers being disposed in 

 racemose spikes, not capitate, in the setaceous teeth of the calyx, 

 and in the linear bracteas. It diflfers from A. Massiliensis^ in 



^ 56 Astra'galus Orea^des (Meyer, verz. pfl. p. 141.) smooth- 

 Wn ; stems diffuse ; stipulas all concrete and sheath-formed ; 

 leaflets 8-12 pairs, all oblong-elliptic, rather retuse ; peduncles 

 snorter than the leaves "; legumes crow^ded, erectish, inflated, 

 nearly globose, mucronate, and pilose. 1/ . H. Native of Per- 

 ^'a* on mount Kasbek, at the height of 3600 or 4200 

 Nearly allied to A. microphyllus, Lin. p. 261. no. 108. 

 ^reades Milk-vetch.* PL diffuse. 



Fl. July, Aug. PI. ascending. the calyclne teeth being subulate, not obtuse, and obliquely trun- 



feet. 



cate, in the bracteas being longer than the pedicels, and in the 

 racemose flowers. 



^yiriwi Goat- thorn. Shrub ^ to 1 foot. 



§ 15. Anthylloldei, p. 268. 



62 Astra'galus ellipsoides (Led. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 297. fl. 

 alt. 3. p. 319.) nearly stemless and silky white; leaflets 11-2J, 

 broad-elliptic, acute at both ends ; stipulas ovate, acuminated. 



*^' Astragalus depaupera'tus (Led. fl. ross. atl. 3. p. 314.) silky outside ; peduncles a little shorter than the leaves ; spikes 

 pant erectish, suffruticose, rather silky; leaflets 5-9, oblong, oblong or globose ; calyxes inflated, elliptic, clothed with white 



pili ; legutnes somewhat triquetrous, many-seeded, acute, very 

 — heads; legumes oblong, a little arched, com- villous, shorter than the calyx. 11. H. Native of Altaia. 

 pressed, granular, villous, but at length almost glabrous, 2-celled. Corolla sulphur-coloured. To follow A. calycinus^ Bieb. p. 

 ^' H. Native of Altaia, in dry salt plains, near Loktewsk. 268. no. 197. of the present volume. 



cute at both ends ; peduncles exceeding the leaves ; flowers 

 ^w> m umbellate heads i Ipcrnmes ohloncr. a little arched, com- 



Corolla 



cream-coloured. To follow A. microphyllus^ Lin. p. 



PI. i to 1 foot. 



Far. a, elongatus (Led. 1. c.) caulescent; leaflets 11-19, re- 

 mote; spikes oblong-cylindrical; calyx clothed with spreading 

 pill. 7/ . H. Native on the mountains of Arkaul and Dolen- 



kara. 



Var. /3, intermedins (Led. 1. c) almost stemless ; leaflets 1 1- 

 23, large, crowded ; spikes oblong, short ; calyx clothed with 

 adpressed pili. %• H. Native on exposed hills, near Ustka- 



^'^l. no. 108. of the present volume. 

 ^^I>auperated Milk-vetch. Fl. Aug. 



p 



F 



§ 9. Ciceroideiy p, 262. 



g 58 Astragalus rytidoca rpus (Led. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 2d3. 



•alt. 3. p. 315,) pi^^l- ascending, rather hoary; stipulas ovate, ^^^.^^^^^ ,. 



I ^^^^ate or acuminated ; leaves with 4 pairs of oblong-linear menogorsk. 



, ^5 peduncles about equal in length to the leaves ; spikes Var. y, abbreviatus (Led. 1. c.) smaller, stemless; leaflets 11- 



^P»tate, few-flowered; legumes short, nearly globose, didy- 13 ; spikes subglobose, few-flowered ; calyx clothed with spread- 



^^us, sessile, wrinkled, transversely 2-celled, rather villous, ing pili. i;. H. Native of dry fields about the mountains of 



piculated by the oblique style. It. H. Native of Altaia, in Tschingistan and Dschigilen. 

 'siands in fi.^ „:.._ r;? , .-^ r^'^... 4 _7 I.J.1U.. t;« ^///p^oirf-podded Milk-vetch. Fl. May. Ph dwarf. 



63 Astra'galus sabuletorum (Led. fl. ross. ah. ill. t. 298. 

 fl. alt. iJ. p. 321.) nearly stemless, silky white; leaflets II-ID, 

 oblong, acute at both ends ; stinulas ovate, acuminated, silky ; 

 peduncles about equal in length io the leaves ; spikes ovate- 

 globose ; calyxes inflated, ovate, clothed with white adpressed 



8P 



^as 111 the river Tschuia. To follow A. glycyphyllus, Lin 



■rf-/, 



PI. ascending. 



5d 



§10. Galegifi 



•^01. n. 



(Lindl. hort. trans 



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