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LEGUMiNOS-a;. (J. G. Baker,) 



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any leaflet at the end, large yellow flowers in the axils of the leaves without 

 any peduncles, gibbous calyces and naked stigmas. Included in Fischer's mono- 

 graph in Tragacantha, from which they are separated by their pedicelled gibbous 



calyx. 



* Leaflets glahrescent or obscurely silky. 



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61. A. poly acanthus, Royle III 199, nm Wall, Cat. 5934; spines 

 short, stipules deltoid or lanceolate-deltoid, leaflets 9-13, flowers sessile in the 

 axils of the leaves usually geminate, corolla twice as long as the calyx. A. 

 Daltonianus, Buitge Man, i. 44 ; ii. 69. A. psilocentrus, FiscL ; Bunge Man- 

 I 44 ; ii. 70. A. scariosus, Bentk, MSS. ; Bunge Man, I 44 ; ii. 71. A. Gi'ah- 

 amianus, Bogle III. 199, t. 36, fig. 2 j Bunge Man. i. 44 ; ii. 68. A. Jacque- 

 montii, Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 68. 



Common in the north-west, ascending from the plains of the Pttnjab to 12,000 ft., 

 reaching east to Ktjmaon and Gharwal. — Distrib. Afghanistan. 



A copiously-branched undershrub, "vnth short branchlets armed with the crowded 

 ascending old leaf-rachises, which are not more than 1^-2 in. long. Leaflets oLlong, 

 glabrescent or persistently slightly silky, pale glaucous green, rather thick in textiu"e, 

 often complicate, :|— | in. long. Pedicels silky, \-^ in. Calyx tubular, J in. long, 

 glabrescent or thinly silky; mouth oblique; teeth short, linear. Corolla l~\\ m. 

 long ; -wings shorter than the standard, and keel than the wings. Tod ^ in, long, 

 dimidiate-oblong, tui^id, sessile, bilocular, 15-20-seeded. 



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62. A. cicerifollus, Boyle -^ Bunge Mon, i. 44 ; ii. 70 ; spines elongated 

 leaflets 31-41, stipules lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, flowers in peduncled 

 heads, corolla not twice as long as the calyx. A. oplites, Benth. MSS, A. 

 tenuispinus, Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 70. A. microphyllus, Jacquem. MSS. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine region, alt, 10-17,000 ft, ; Nxjbba, LabaK, 

 Kashmir, Garwhax, Kunawar, &c. 



An undershrub, densely armed with the ereeto-patent rigid stramineous le^f' 

 rachises, which are ^-^ ft. long. Leaflets finely silky at first, mostly glabrescent 

 when mature, pale green, thick in texture, obtuse, sometimes emarginate, ascending, 

 caducous, ^-| in. long, oblanceolate or obo\'ate-oblong. Flowers usually 3-4 together 

 on short peduncles from the axils of the leaves ; pedicels ^\ in. ; bracts linear or 

 setaceous, exceeding the pedicels. Calyx ^— | in., with a few adpressed black or 

 brownish silky hairs ; teeth setaceous, a third as long as the tube. Proportion of the 

 petals as in the last. Pod |-| in. long, oblong, turgid, bilocular, densely silky, narroM'cd 

 to the point, 15-20-seeded, 



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Leaflets persistently densely silky. 



63. A. multiceps, Wall Cat, 6937; main stems not produced, hranchlets 

 with densely crowded nodes, flowers 1-2 together in leaf-axils usually Vioi 

 peduncled, corolla twice as long as the calyx. Bunge Mon. i. 44, ii. 69. 



West Himalayas, temperate zone, alt. 10-12,000 ft.; Simla, Kumaon, GarwhaI'. 

 Tufts densely congested, armed with the verv crowded ascending old leaf-rachises, 



.dnatc only at the very base; 



I in. long, thick in texture, 



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the pedicels. Calyx | in., thinly silky; teeth linear-setaceous, half as long as the 

 tube. Corolla J in. ; standard exceeding wings and keel. Pod sessile, oblong, turgi^i 

 bilocular, 12-14-seeded, clothed with fine grey silky hairs. *' 



leaflets 21-31, mostly crowded, obovate -oblong, ^^ 

 dull green, clothed with grey silky hairs. Pedicels ^ 



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