120 li- LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) lAstragalus. 



young silky ; stipules connate. Peduncles twice as long as the leaves. Cal^x J in. long. 

 Corolla pnrple ; standard | in. long, blade broad. Pod silky, subulate, 20-seeded. 

 Described from DC. and Lunge loc.cit. — No specimen seen. 



6. A. kongrensis, Benth. MSS. ; green, finely silky, flowers in a dense 

 lieadj wings shorter than the keel, calyx clothed with adpressed silky hairs, 

 teeth lanceolate much shorter than the tube. 



Sikkim; Kongra Lama, alt. 15,000 ft., Hoo/cfiL 



Subacaulescent, with a slender rhizome, creeping beloTV the surface. Leaves dis- 

 tinctly petiolcd, 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 15-17, roundish-oblong, obtuse, not complicate, 

 pale green, thinly coated with short white hairs ; stipules ^-^ in,, orate, obtuse, per- 

 sistent, slightly silky. Flowers 5-6, ascending or cernuous, in a dense head ; peduncles 

 H-2 in., erect, clothed with adpressed black hairs ; pedicels very short, densely black- 

 silky; bracts linear, not very small. Calyx ^ in. Corolla twice the cal}^!, deep 

 purple ; keel as long as the standard. Ovary densely silky, multiovulate, with a stalk 

 nearly as long as the calyx-tube. 



7. A. tribulifolius, BentJi, MSS. ; glaucous, densely tomentose, leaflets 

 crowded, flowers few in a dense head, calyx-teeth subulate as long as the tube, 

 wings much shorter than the keel. Bunge Man. i. 4, ii. 2. 



Western Tibet, alpine region; valley below Ilanle Eupchu, alt, 14,500 ft.; Thodi' 

 toUy Heyde. ^ 



Bootstock long, woody, fusiform. Sterna and thick glaucous leaves densely clothed 

 with short spreading white hairs. Leaves 1-2 in. long; leaflets crowded, 17-21, 

 oblong, i-| in. long ; stipules minute, deltoid, leaf-like, free. Pedu7icles 1-2 in., 

 the short pubescence growing black upwards ; pedicels yQvy short ; bracts subulate, 

 conspicuous, persistent; Calyx \ in., densely clothed with short black pubescence. 

 Corolla purplish, half as long again as the calyx ; standard \ in. broad. Ovary silkyi 

 distinctly stalked ; ovules about 20. Tod not seen. 



X^'^'^ 8. A. Bendersoni, Baker-, glaucous, densely tomentose, leaflets 

 crowded, flowers 1-2 together, calyx-teeth lanceolate shorter than the tuhe. 



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Tibet ; upper part of the Karakash valley, Br. Henderson, 



Closely allied to the last, the thick glaucous cx-owded leaflets clothed with dense 

 white hairs, the whole 



couple of inches high. Leaves 

 folded together. Peduncles short, clothed with short white pubescence. Calyx ^ lO., 

 matted with mixed black and white hairs. Corolla seen in bud only. Pod oblong, the 

 same size and shape, and as much inflated as in A. pycnorhizus, membranous, with afe* 

 short adpressed hairs and a short stalk; sutures scarcely at all intruded; seeds 

 about 20. 



*** Tall perennials rcith almost woody stems, lax JloiverSy aiid long-stalli^i 

 few-seeded podi^ (habit of Subgen. Phaca). 



0. A. Falconer!, Bunge Mon, i. 4 ; ii, 2 ; densely pubescent, stipul^ 



troad foliaceous, leaflets 13-17, pod tiu'gid glabrescent. A. acutiflorus, Benth^ 

 2HSS, 



"West Tibet, Falconer ; Hazara, Winterbotiom. 



Stems flexuous, old glabrescent, young clothed with short spreading white pubes- 

 cence. Leaves I-l^ in. long; leaflets close, glaucous, obtuse, oblanceolate-oblong* 

 |-^ in. long! iJace/zifij few-flowered, long-peduncled ; pedicels shorter than the caly*» 

 downy. Calyx ^ in., gibbous, nearly glabrous ; teeth very short. Corolla lilac, ^ in-» 

 vings lanceolate, acute, as long as the keel. Pod ^ in. long, narrowed to both ends, 

 4-6-8eeded; stalk twice the calyx; inflexed suture reaching aU through in the lower 

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