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' West Himalatas, temperate and alpine region, alt. 5-13,000 ft. ; Lahto, Kulu, 

 XtrxAWAB, Kashmir, Gabwhai.. 



Stents xerj slender, 1-2 feet long, with distant internodes, clothed when young with 

 *feT minute adpressed white hairs. Leaves 1^2 in. long; leaflets thin, oblong, 

 obtuse or emarginate, ^-i in. long, pale green, with a few short adpressed white hairs; 

 stipules minute, lanceolate, spreading. Fedimcles shorter than the leaves, clothed with 

 inixed black and white hairs ; pedicels ^ in. ; bracts very minute. Calyx ^-| in., 

 campanulate. Corolla i-| in., keel slightly exceeding the wings, falling short of the 

 standard. Pod |-^ in. long, membranous, finely black-silky ; stalk exceeding 

 the calyx.^A specimen gathered by Strachey and Winterbottom at the Melam 

 glacier ia Kumaon has setaceous calyx-teeth, twice as long as the campanulate tube, 

 ™ to! probably prove a new species between A, himalayanus and MaddeniamcSn 



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1 /^ J ^' WCaddenianus, Benth, MSS. ; stems elongated slender %veak 



1 M ^^.fii^st with short spreading black and white hairs, leaflets 19-21, calyx 



ciothed with minute adpressed black and white hairs, teeth setaceous as long as 



tfle tube, pod stalked unilocular 3-4-seeded. 



KuMAoy; temperate region, alt. 10-11,000 ft.. Madden, Edgewortk, 

 'i\^^^^ habit exactly as in A, himalayanus, but the young branches densely beset 

 ^th short spreading black and white bristly hairs. Leaves l|-2 in. long ; leaflets 

 lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, densely clothed at first on both sides with adpressed 

 ^j^^^^^irs; stipules minute, spreading. Heads few-flowered; peduncle ^1 in., 

 ;ij^.^^i^e the branches; bracts linear, exceeding the short black pedicels.* Calyx 

 <^5 in. Corolla \ in.; wings much shorter than standard and keel. Vod f in^ 

 ^,^» ^^^l^ranous, densely white-silky, narrowed to both ends; stalk exceeding 





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Seads indmwled. Flowers yellow. 



\a^\ ^' *^^sl^™tirensls, Bmfie Man. i. 30 ; ii. 34 ; stems elongated sha^y 

 ^, long hairs, leaflets 29-33, calyx thinly clothed with long hairs, corolla 



exserted, pod sessile finely pubescent bilocular 6-8-seeded. 



^ASHMiR, temperate region, alt. 0-10,000 ft., Jacquemont, Falconer, 



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or acute, f-^ in. long, dull green, clothed 



hcW \ ^^^^^' ^^^^^ ^^ ascending, under a foot high. Leaves distinctly petioled, 3-4 

 ^es Jong; leaflets close, oblong, obtuse _ ^ . " . 



striaf 1 ^^ ^^^ ^^*^^ ^^°6 ^^^ 'i^^^'s J stipules J in. long, free, lanceolate, membranous, 

 linear 1 ^^^^^ dense, round; peduncle 1-3 in.; pedicel ^^:,-^ in., slfeggy ; bracts 

 tiiwV^^^ose, persistent, J-f in. long. Calyx |-i in.; teeth linear, shorter than 

 ^L* ; ^^<^l^^ fin.; standard exceeding the Avings and keel. iW^in. long, 

 %^ texture, linear-oblong, straight, hollowed down the keel, narrowed into a long 



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h^T'*}' ^^^^^^^f^rl Baker; taller, much less shaggy, stipules narrower an inch 

 V^^ leaflets 31^34 broad-oblong obtuse,— Kashmir, Falconer. 



f''- A. floridus, BentJi, MSS. ; stems elongated clothed with minute 



mhar. **v"u.iis, jjeniu. JH*>o. ; stems uiuu-iilcu. i^i^^i^^vx ...^- .^.^^^^ 



y^ri^A^f""^^'^^ black hairs, leaflets 25-31, calyx densely clothed with ad« 

 i 28 ^^^^^' ^^^ long-stalked unilocular 4-5-seeded. Bunge Mon. i. 24 ; 



^KKm, alpine region ; Tungii. alt. 13,000 ft., Zr(?<?^-.^.. , ^ , ,. 

 Slaupl "moderately stout, erect, i-l ft. Leave's Ih-Z m. ; leaflets Imear-oblonpr, 

 lancenl ; ^"^«'^"tp. h^ in., thinly clothed ^ith .lapressed silvery bristles : stipules 

 floff " ^^ deltoid, free, i-i in. Heads round or oblong, 12-30-flowered, the lower 

 linear '^?'"°^^'^'^s ; peduncle 1-2 in., densely black-silky; pedicels black, ^ m. ; bracts 

 the caU ""'^°- ' ^'^^•^' under 1 in. ; teeth short, linear.. . Corolla bright yellow, twice 

 ^enseiv n' ^^^^'^^ ^<^^tIj equal. Fod linear-oblong, ^ in. long, narrowed to both ends, 



y ulack-silkvV stalk as Innrrns tbficalvx-tube. < ' : V *"'' 



■-silky ; stalk as long as the calyx-tube 





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