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^ 30. A. bliotanensls, Baker -^ stems firm elongated glabrous, leaflets 

 21-25, calyx glabrous, teeth short linear, pod cylindrical sessile many-seeded 

 Jialf-bilociUar. 



Bhotax, temperate region ; grassy banks at Panga, 7000 ft., Griffith. 



Sienis 1-2 feet high, slender glabrous, terete, -with distant nodes and ascending 

 branches. Leaves 2-4 in. long ; leaflets oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, |-f in. long, green 

 and glabrescent above, clothed with a few obscure adpressed hairs below ; stipules 



<free, lanceolate, §-^ in. Flowers 12-20, in very dense heads ; peduncles 2-5 in, long, 

 with only a few obscure adpressed white hairs at the top ; bracts lanceolate, glabrous, 

 .^-J in. Calyx nearly sessile, \ in. long, tubular ; teeth a third as long as the tube. 

 ■Corolla twice the calyx, colour uncertain; wings rather shorter than the keel and the 

 latter than the standard. Pod firm, turgid, straight, |-| in. long ; seeds about 20. ' 



inconspicuus 



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lanceolate or setaceous, pod stalked unilocular 10-12-seeded. 



KuMAox ; banks of the Ealam river, alt. 9000 ft., StracJiey and Wmterbottom. 



Habit of a small Vicia. Leaves 1-1 ^ in. long; leaflets opposite, oblong, obtuse, 

 \ in. long, green, glabrescent when mature, thinly silky at first ; stipules minute, 

 lanceolate. Flowers 3-4 together, on a short peduncle clothed with ascending grey 

 -silky hairs ; pedicels distinct, but shorter than the minute deltoid bracts. Calyx \ in.» 

 tubuloso-ciimpanulate, nearly naked. Corolla scarcely twice the calyx, the petals 

 equal in length. Pod not seen mature. 



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'32. A. tenuicaulis, Benth, MSS.-^ stems elongated subglabrous very 

 weak and slender, leaflets 13-15, calyx thinly clothed -with short black hairs, 

 Wth not more than ^^-\ as long as the tube, pod oblong sessile unilocular 

 4r-G-9eeded. Biuu/e Mon. i. 23 ; ii. 28. 



SiKKni and East Nxpal, temperate region, alt. 7-9000 ft, Hook, fiL 

 Stems straggling, branched, a foot or more long. Leaves 1-1^ in. ; leaflets oblong, 

 •obtuse, opposite, thin, glaucous green, finely downy ; stipules free, minute. Heads 4-8- 

 flowered, not very dense ; peduncles an inch or less long, finely downy ; bracts 

 lanceolate or deltoid, minute. Calyx | in., tubuloso-campanulate. Corolla | in.; 

 -standard slightly exceeding the keel and wings. Pod ^ in. turgid, membranous, ob- 

 eairely downy .^General habit of an Ervum, 



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sikkimensis 



little 



, Benth, MSS. ; stems elongated slender weak 

 nearly gkbrous, leaflets 19-21, calyx clothed with adpressed black hairs^ teeti 

 lialf as long as the tube, pod small oblong stalked unilocular 2-3-seeded. Buriffe 

 Man. I 23 ; ii. 2S. 



SiKKiM and East Nipal, alt. 8-12,000 ft., Hook.fL 

 ^ Stems 1-2 feet, erect, very slender, with distant nodes clothed only with a 

 •minute adpressed white pubescence. Leaves li-2 in. long; leaflets oblong, obtuse or 

 •emarginate, clothed when young with adpressed white silky hairs, green and glabres- 

 cent above when mature ; stipules minute, lanceolate, falcate. Peduncles short, clothed 

 with copious adpressed black hairs; flowers 20-30 in an oblong head; pedicels 

 black, very short ; bracts deltoid, minute. Calyx i in. tubuloso-campanulate. CyroU<^ 

 twice the calyx ; standard slightly exceeding the keel and wings. Pod i-J in. longt 

 Tnembranous, turgid, densely black-silky ; stalk as long as the calyx-tube? 'K 



himalayanus, Klotzsch 



elongated slender weak ne 



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adpressed black and white hairs, teeth half as long as the tube, pod linear- 

 Hoblong stalked subunilocular 6-6-seeded. A. carinalis/^J?m^A. MSS.) Bung^ 

 Moiu i. 23; ii. 28.;;Phaca longicaulis and cachemerica. Benth. MSS. - - 



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