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large, leafy, ovate ; leaflets ^-| In. long, not at all rigid. Peduncle filiform, 1-3 in. 

 long ; pedicels shorter than calyx ; bracts lanceolate, very minute. Cal^/x ^ in., silky;. 

 ■upper teeth deltoid, lower lanceolate. Corolla 3-4 times calyx; standard round, 

 glabrous. Pod linear, glabrous, ^ in. long, 6-8-seeded, Avith a narrow border to the 

 upper suture. 



2. G. mlrpourensis, Benth. MSS. : stemless, leaflets 3-7 ohlong 



calyx 



Astragalus 



mirpoiirensis^ Camb. %n Jacqucm, J oy, Bot. 39, t. 4b, 



Upper Gangetic plain at Mirpour, Jacquemont, Hazara, Br. Steivart/ 

 Rhizomes slender, branched, "^vith the leaves and peduncles in a rosette at the sur- 

 face. Petiole ^1 in,, obscurely pubescent, like the rachis and underside of the 

 leaves; leaflets \~^ in. long, obtuse, glabrescent above, not at all rigid. Peduncle as 

 long as the leaves; pedicels scarcely any. Calyx ^ in. finely silky ; teeth lanceolate- 

 ucuminate. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod twice the calyx, linear, finely silky. 



'3. G. multiflora, Bunge Enum. PL Chin. 18; stemless, leaflets 11-13 

 oWong densely silliy, flowers ^-Qy calyx-teeth as long as the tube. 



West Himalaya, Boyle, the exact station not known. Distrib. China. 



Rosettes of leaves and peduncles densely crowded at the surface on a slender woody 

 rhizome. ica/-rachis 2-4 in., including the distinct petiole, densely pubescent;. 

 leaflets J-J in., obtuse, soft, not rigid. Pedtmcle equalling or overtopping the leaves ;• 

 biaets linear, exceeding the very short pedicels. Calyx \ in,; teeth linear-lanceo-, 

 late. Corolla violet or yellow, twice the calyx. Pod twice the calyx, linear, straight, 

 densely pubescent. 



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Herbs or nnderstrubs "with pinnate leaves, the leaf-rachis terminating either 

 in a leaflet or a spine. Calyx tubular or campanulate, equal or gibbous on the. 

 l)ack ; teeth 6, subequal. Corolla usually distinctly exserted ; petals sul)equal 

 or vrings and keel shorter tlian the standard, the keel incurved, obtuse. Staynens- 

 diadelphous; anthers uniform. Ovai-y sessile or stalked, many-ovuled ; styl©^ 



incurved, stigma capitate. Pod linear or oblong, usually turgid, continuous 

 ■within or more or less completely longitudinally 2-celled from the introversion 

 of the inferior suture. — Pistrtb. Belts the world in the north-temperate zone, 

 the head quarters being Western and Central Asia. Monographed in the H*^' 

 volume of the 7th series of the Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of St^^ 

 Petersburg, by Bunge, %vho estimates the number of species at 1160-1200. 



SiXRGTiy. 1, Tricbostylus, BaJcer. A herbaceous perennial, with basifixed 

 hairs, the style bearded down the inner face below the stigma, as in Phaseolus, 



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Beydeii Baker. 



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"West Tibktak Himaiayas, alpine region, alt. 15-16,000 ft., Strachey. 

 Tso-kar sea, betMeen liupschu and Korsog, Heyde, 



Rhizome slender, woody, the whole plant not reaching more than an inch above tnd 

 mil. Leaves \-\ in. long; leaflets 17-19, oblong, crowded, complicate, persistently 



argepteo-canescent, fleshy ; stipules small, deltoid, fleshy, spreading. Peduncles \-iy^ 

 Flotders 2-4 in a close umbellate head ; bracts and pedicels minute. Caly3! ^ ^n.v 

 densely argenteo-canescent ; teeth lanceolate-deltoid, rather shorter than the campan^* 

 late, tube. Corolla more than twice the calyx, rose-red with the tip deeper ; petals 

 subequal ; limb of standard round, reflexed, deeply emarginate. Pod I in, long, oblongs 

 membranous, much inflated, short-stalked, glabrous, 1 -celled, many-seeded. 



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 pasifixed l^aars, differing from all the rest by its penicillatc 



of vanous habit, jf} 

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