Astragalus. '\ 



L. LEGUMixos-E. (J. G. Baker.) 



119 



. Annuals with slender trailing stems and sessile pods (liabit 

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2. A. amherstianus, JSenth. in Hoi/le III 199 ; corolla scarcely ex- 

 Keding the calyx, pod 10-12-seeded with the valves but little iniiexed. Bunge 



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Vest Himalayas, temperate region, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; Kisttivar, Kxtka^'ae, 

 t-HmA, Simla.— DisTRiB. Afghanistan. 



htems densely caespitose, diffuse, |-1 ft., clothed with dense adpressed whitish hairs- 

 E M/^f'"^-^"^' 1-1^ in-; leaflets 13-17, narrow, oblong, obtuse, f-| in. long, 

 4 10 ^y^^^*-'^."^\th thick adpressed white hairs; stipules minute, lanceolate. Flowers 

 cwm ' ^^^ J uistinctly-poduncled racemes ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute, seta- 

 lnn« ' .^y^yk i^Im shaggy with hairs like those of the leaves; t 



long.astIietub''e. 



teeth setiiceous, as 

 I^od linear, turgid, |— ^ in. long, much 



shaggy^ 



y^ ■ •, --■ primrose 



J^urred, rostrate, thinly pubescent. 



cnJi ^' ^^'^^ml'ellatus, KlotzscJi in Meise Pr, Wald. Bot. 159, t. 3; 

 i^roiia more than twice as long as the calyx, pod 2()-24-seeded with the 

 S^Mn^^^^^^^' ^^' tippocrepidis, Beiitk. MSS. ; Bunge Mm. i. 5, ii. 3 j 

 J ' ^^*^^^^' ^^* '^'^^' ■^' Scorpiurus, Bunge Man, loc. cit. A. humifusuSy 



Pr> 



^'JAB, Hazaea, Kashmir, tropical and temperate regions, ascending to 



6-7non n ^T ' iVASHMm, tropical and 



£? T.f™^^' ^^lo^chistiin, Afghanistan. 



Jiairs 'r ^^ ^^'* *^^^^^®' branched, clothed with short deciduous ascending white 

 iensdy'^r^^ 1-2 in.; leaflets 13-21, distant, oblong, glaucous, f-f in., thinly or 

 ^stinal 7 ^^ iiearly glabrescent ; stipules minute, lanceolate, cuspidate. Racemes 

 "^erv mi/ p *^^^^' 6-lO-flowered, lax or close ; pedicels very short ; bracts setaceous, 

 ^lia ^ i ^<^^yx ^ in., thinly pubescent ; teeth setaceous, as long as the tube. Co- 

 ^i« stand-" A A *^^°Sed ^-ith rose-purple ; blade of wings lanceolate, shorter than 



standard and keeh Pod \ 

 *^^^t completely bilocular. * 



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Sni.^. ^!?^^^* '^^^^^^ slander c<B8mtose trailing sterns and 



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Wall. 



caly: 



*« lioiT%1^i^ nearly as long as the tule, wings shorter than the keel. £ekh. 

 .yf tT. ^^^ ; ^unge Mm. i. 4, ii. 1. Sphserophrsa pycnorhiza, Benth. Gen. 



504. 



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SiKKm, alt. 6-12,000 ft., I 



Leaves 



close li^T^^' ^'^'^i^'orm. Stems -wiry, \-l ft. jjcavt* au. mwu wx .^^x^ .v.^^, , 



°%afe^ ^^^°"' obovate-oblong, truncate-emarginate, \ in. long, clothed with 

 ^^nc'ks Z ^fJ ^^^^^^ obscure hairs ; stipules free, minute, membranous, deltoid. Pe- 

 Jiairs- tTI"' 1 S °^ exceeding the leaves, clothed with short mixed black and white 

 *ift mim f* ^'*'^^' ^'^*^^*^ ; 'bnxcU membranous, lanceolate. CahfX | in., gibbous, clothed 

 ■^Ddard , pubescence like that of the peduncle. Corolla ^-| in., purplish ; limb of 

 long £,i„v°^"^' h '°- ^road ; wings half as broad as the depth of the keel. Tod ^-2 in. 

 ^an tfie ?"^' ^"^'^^^^' 12-16-seeded, the suture not inflexed; stalk much shorter 



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calyx. 



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Wbte^^',**<*»^lanus, DC. Prodr. ii. 283; slightly pubescent, flo-^rers few, 

 l^ii J :?°? ^s the keel, calyx-teeth half as long as the tube. Bunge Mm. 

 • • A. macrorhizus, Dm Prod. 245, nan Gov. 



pairs (jf /^^®^^ate, beset -with a few scattered adpressed hairs. ^ Leaves with S-IO- 



oval alternate niucronulate leaflets/ \rhich we pubescent beneath, but when 



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