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. Plains of Punjab and Scinde.— Distrib. East Europe, Orient, West Siberia. 



Jtem siiberect, ^-1^ ft., densely clothed -vvitli short soft spreading white hairs.', 

 ^ms dis met y petioled, 3-4 inches long ; leaflets ^-^ in, distant, greenish, thin at' 

 ^^iiensely pilose on Loth sides ; stipules lanceolate, free, larger tlian in all the pre- 

 leave ri T^^ *^^^^se, many-flowered, on pilose peduncles much shorter than the- 

 Corofi IVM ^ ^^'' ^®°®^^y pilose ; teeth setaceous, plumose, exceeding the tube. 

 ?od i • 1 ^xserted, the lanceolate acute v/ings shorter than the standard and keel.: 

 - 2 m. long, sausage-shaped, membranous, rugose, completely conduplicate. 



oW T.^\ 4- Podolotus, Hoi/Ie, A caulescent perennial, with a few. 

 ^c^cure basifixed hairs and naked stigma, differing from all the other groups hy 



m+r.- T^^ ^^ *^^ unilocular pod separatinf>: as a thin membrane and produced 

 ittto septa between the seeds. -^ ^ ° ^ 



%/e J/n'qs*****'^****^®*'' -Z?e«i(A, Gen. i. p. 507. Podolotus Losackioides! 



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Wok and GuBWHAL, temperate region. 

 1-iii^! t fl ^'S^^^^'*^^s, zigzag, densely cfespitose, 1^1^ ft. Leaves short-petioled, 

 deltoid"' ' p!i^^^ 13-15, ^een, glabrous, oblong, obtuse, ^-fin. ; stipules minute^ 

 SaLrou ."V "^*^ equalling or exceeding the leaves, 1-2-flowered. Cafyx J in., 

 leTifrfV. ^j. "^eeth short, deltoid. Corolla yellow, twice the cah-x; petals equal in 



SLf'°g« .^;i^Ueel abruptly incurved. -- '• -''^ ^'-^^ ' ^ - '--' 



'-e-^eeded, y^-^th a stalk as Ions as the ca 



Pod linear, turgid, straight, ^-^ in. long, 



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r^^^A ^' *^yPogrlottis. Herbaceous perennials, with "basifixed hairs;. 

 iQ dense mostly peduncled capitate heads, and naked stigmas. 



/^eac/^ ses^le or peduncled Flowers lilac or pnrple. 



tlinlvnwV^^***'^'^^**' ^^th.MSS,; stems very dwarf densely csespitose'- 

 adpressS'^S 1 ^^^^ adpressed white hairs, leaflets 11-13, calyx clothed with 

 kl.^aA S^^^^^ ^^i^9f teeth linear shorter than the tube, pod stalked unilocular, 

 ^eded, Bunffe Man. i. 23 : ii. 27. 



'^msnl S^^^'^' ^^P^^® region; Pangong and Parang valley, alt. 15-17,500 ft.; 



^esoil" ^f^^^y* fusiform, the whole plant not more than 1-3 inches high above 

 canescent i^f^ ^~2 ^^- l^«g; leaflets silver}% thick, close, complicate, oblong, densely^ 

 '"^uncleijV-'^' ^^ ^^^^ ^^"S' stipules small, lanceolate. Heads 6-8 -flowered;.. 

 -airs- Derr T ^^'' mostly subradical, clothed with adpressed black and white silky. 

 Seethe ] ^^^ bracts very small. Cal^x ^ in., the tube campanulate. , Corolla. 

 ^% m/^ J ^^^^ ^^^ "ft'Ings subequal, rather shorter than the standard. 

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17.21 ■ n) '*Sr*dulus, Benih. MSS.; stems very short glabrous, leaflets. 

 W as f? %.^v^^'^*^^'^ ^t^ adpressed black silky hairs, teeth lanceolate aa. 

 1 23 . j; L "*^' pod oblong turgid sessile unilocular 6-S-seeded. Buncfe Mm, 



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'^niblin<>^ ,"^®^' ™"ch branched Lclow the surface, the whole plant closely 

 *^inctlv nf- 7-P*««< Jn habit, not more than 3-4 inches high above the sod. Leaves^ 

 y^^hl° A • ^-^^ ^"-J leaflets green, linear-oblong, obtuse, H J"- ^^^S' thinly 

 lowered .^^'^P^^'ssed white hairs ; stipules i in. deltoid, membranous. Heads 6-10- 

 *^e caly X . ^ . ^"'^les and pedicels both veiy short. Ca!i/x under | in. Corolla tific©^. 

 ^^O"*; meml" *^^ standard oblong, exceeding the wings and keel. Pod glabrous^ 



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pressed ^k-f*J**»»«» ^t'nn. Sp. 1070?; stems short slender clothed with 1^- 



waite silky hails, leaflets 11-13, calyx clothed ?rith odpressed mixed. 



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