116 L. LEGUMi^'OS-a:. (J. G. Baker.) [^Garagana. 



Leaf-rachi$ suppressed, 



1. C. pyg'mBBa, DC. Prodr. ii. 268; leaflets 4 d 

 "broiis, flowers solitary nearly sessile. Brand, For. Flor. 134. Robinia pygmiBa 

 Linn. Sp. PL 1044 ; Pall. Fl. Ross, i. t. 45. Genista versicolor, Wall. Cat 

 6922 ; -Roy/e ///. t. 34^ fig. 2. 0. versicolor^ Beiith. in Royle 111. 198. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine regions ; Tibet, Kitnaw^ar, &c., alt. 

 8-17,000 ft. — DisTRiB. Afghanistan, Altai to DaA'uria. 



A low nnderslirub, with the habit of a prickly Genista, the branches armed with a 

 pungent, ascending trifid spine under an inch long from each of the close nodes. 

 Leaves solitary or geminate in the spine axils, with rarely a perceptible petiole; 

 leaflets ^-^ in. long, firm, pale green. Pedicels jointed, shorter than the calyx. Calyx 

 glabrous, \ in. long; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla bright reddish-yellow, J i^r 

 standard glabrous. Pod linear, turgid, glabrous, naked -within, |-1 in. long. 



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Leaf-rachis ^oroduced, with a spine at the end. 



2. C. conferta, Benth. MSS.} leaflets 4-6 oblanceolate sabglabrous^ 

 stipules spinous, flowers 1-2 subsessile. 



Baltt, temperate or alpine region, Winterbottom. 



Nodes crowded on the castaneous downy branches. Spines woody, an inch long* 

 Stipules broad, scariose, downy, with a spiny tip ; leaflets ^-| in, long, obtuse, with a 

 inucro, at first faintly silky beneath, subcoriaceous. Pedicels downy, shorter than the 

 calyx. Calyv ^ in., finely silky ; teeth deltoid, ciliated, half as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla 1 in, long, the keel incurved, with very long claws. Ovary linear, densely 

 pubescent, 10-15-ovuled ; style long, much incurved. Pod unknown. 



3. C. Gerardiana, Boyle HI. 198, t. 34,^ fig. 1 ; leaflets 8-12 oblan- 

 ceolate-oblong densely pubescent, stipules not spinous, flowers 1-2 subsessile. 

 Brand. For. Flar. 133. Astragalus Gerardianus, GraJi. in Wall. Cat. 5938. 

 0. spinosissima, Benth. in Royle III. 198 j Camh. in Jacquetn. Voy. Bat. t. 43. 



West Himai^ayas, temperate and alpino region, alt. 8-13,000 ft.; GurWHAI» 



KXTMAOX, KUNAWAR, 



A shrub reaching 3-4 ft. high, with very close nodes and downy young branches. 

 Old spines crecto-patent, pungent, 1-1^ in. long, often downy. Leaflets ^-| in. longV 

 obtuse, mucronate, firm, densely silky ; stipules deltoid, scarious, not spine-tipped antl 

 consequently the old spines simple, not tritid. Calyx shortly pedicelled, f in. longr 

 densely pubescent ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate, half the tube. Corolla twice the calyi* 

 Pod ^-1 in by 1 in., woolly within and persistently clothed with grey pubescence on 

 the outside. 



4. C. polyacantba, Royle III 198; leaflets 10-12 obovate-oblong 

 densely pubescent, stipules spinoua, flowers 1-2 ou a short peduncle. Astragalus 

 polyacanthus, Wall. Cat. 5934. 



Central Himat^aya, alpine or temperate region; KustAOX, BlinJcworth; Gttk- 

 WHAi., Strachcy and Winterbottom, 



A low shrub, with close nodes and densely downy young branches. Old spi^^-^ 

 1-2 in. long, weaker and less pungent than in the last. X^ff/-rachises densely mattea 

 with pale brown woolly pubescence ; leaflets ^-J in. long, pale greon, rigidly coriaceotiSt 

 truncate, mucronate. Common peduncle short and not always developed, Calyx^ ^^* 

 long, densely silky, subtended by a pair of linear bracteoles ; teeth setaceous from a 

 deltoid base, half as long as the tube. Corolla yellowish, twice the calyx. Ovo-^ 

 linear, densely pubescent. P{?(i unknown. ^ 



5. C. brevispina. Itoyle lU. 198; leaflets 12-lG oborate-oWong gf' 

 brous or finely silkv, stipules spinous, flowers 2-4 on a common bedunci*^ 

 Brand. For. Bor. 133. 



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