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L. LEGUMiNOSiE, (J, G. Baker.) 



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• West Himalatas, temperate region, alt. 5-9000 ft. ; Kashmir, Kunawar, Gur- 

 THM, Simla, &c.— Distrib. Chinese Tartary, Afghanistan. 



A shrub several feet high, the nodes less crowded than in the preceding, the young 

 branches finely downy. Old spine-tipped rachises 2-4 in. long, rigid or flexible. 

 mjkts^-^ m. long, subcoriaceous, glabrescent on both sides or thinly pubescent be- 

 m Peduncle 1-2 in. ; bracts and bracteoles linear, scarious ; pedicels downy. Calyx ^ 

 w. long subglabrous ; teeth half the tube, lanceolate-cuspidate. Corolla glabrous, 

 jeilo^vish, twice the calyx. Pod glabrous, linear, 2 in. long, woolly within. 



* Spineless leaf-rachis jyrocluced, with a leaflet at the end (Chesneta, Lindl). 



■^^ f'fl*'' classic auHs, Smth. MSS. ; leaflets 21-25 linear-oblong pubes- 

 ant, flowers solitary. Astragalus crassicaulis, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5932. A. 

 DUbigenus, Bon Prodr. 246? Oaragana (Nephelotroplie) niibigena, Bunge 

 Mm. Agtraff. 240 ? 



Himalayas, alpine region, alt. 12-17,000 ft.; Gurwhal and KmiAOw to Sikkim. 

 Terv/^'^ thick, tufted, woody, creeping for a few inches below the surface, clothed 

 ^ ensely with the long old tough but not pungent or spinous leaf-rachises. Leaves 

 CTis ^^°®^*^t^at the surface, short-petioled, 1-lf in. long; leaflets green, not coriace- 

 Ij ' f 4 ^°- long, truncate or emarginate. Peduncle downy, as long as the calyx. Calyx 

 lie" T^' ^^^^ o^Iiq^^^, densely pubescent ; teeth \-^ tube. Corolla reddish-yellow, twice 

 oblon ^1*3®^^*^^^^ pubescent on the outside ; wings and keel shorter. Pod linear- 

 . ^» 8~4^°- long, finely 2:)ubescent, stuffed inside with cottony down. 



fiiV ^- cuneata, Baker -^ leaflets 11-13, flowers 1-3 lon^-peduncled. 

 S^h^mi^^ cuneata, Benth. in Boyle III 200. Chesneya vaginalis, Jauh, and 



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t. 48 ? (caljTc teeth shorter). 



-T)t^^^^^ ^^^^ AxviNE West Himalayas, alt. 8-13,000 ft. ; Tibet and Kttnawab. 



Cl* O^^nt ? ; Kashgar, Bellew. 

 W-raoIr • V^ ^^* ^^^gf crowded from a woody rhizome. Stipules small, deltoid ; 

 Margin t' ^^^^^^'^^"g distinct petiole, 2-4 in. long ; leaflets obovate, |-f in. long, truncate, 

 Jeav^- -^o^*- ^?^ ^o^iaceous, densely pubescent. Peduncle equalling or overtopping the 

 as the tub r.? ^^^yj^^^* C<^ly3^ ^ in. downy ; teeth linear-lanceolate, half as long 



slightly 



Jteel s)i yi ^^ "^^^®" ^^^^^^^ twice the calyx ; standard pubescent ; wings ratlier shorter ; 

 ^^uffed »>v^^^^^' -^^^ straight, linear, glabrous, 2-2^ in. long^ 10-12-seeded, 

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.?fP purple flowers, more hoary leaves and narrower pod, which may ^e distinct 



^dcoroll "^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ oblique calyx of Calophaca, but in habit^ 



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