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Astragalus.} l. leguminos^. (J. G. Baker.) 135 



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with densely crowded nodes, flowers in short-peduncled heads, corolla half as 

 long (^in as tlie calyx. Bunr/e Man. i. 43, ii. 67. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine region, alt. 10-14,000 ft.; Zanskar, 

 Thomson, 



^ A diehotomously-branched undershrub, with the old part of the stems densely 



oeset with stiff persistent ascending leaf-rachises 3-4 in. long. Stipules lanceolate, 



t in. long; leaflets 21-25, close, oblong, obtuse, caducous, ^f in. long, densely 



^thed on both sides with rather spreading short pale brown silky pubescence. 



flowers up to a half-a-dozen in heads much overtopped by the leaves; pedicels ^ in., 



densely pubescent ; bracts linear-setaceous, plumose. Cai^x i-| in., tubular, densely 



suky ; teeth setaceous, J as long as the tube. Corolla f in. ; wings shorter than 



^ndard and keel than wings. Ovar?/ oblong, silky, short-stalked ; ovules about 20. 

 •roa not seen. 



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1 i* ^' ^®Pt*>centrus, Bunge Mon, i. 44 ; ii. 69 ; main stems elongated, 

 ^nchlets with densely crowded nodes, flowers 1-2 together in leaf- axils not 

 PWuncled, corolla twice as lon^ as the calyx. A. leptacanthus. Benth. MSS. 







West Himalayas, alpine region. Piti, alt. 14.000 ft., Thomson; Hazara, 



SDr^ undershrub, with branches clothed with very dense short pale brown 



een^\^/^^^®^®°^®' Leaf-rachises erecto-patent, 2-3 in. long, persistently pubes- 



flides '^ k- ^^~^^' oblong, obtuse, ^-| in. long, persistently matted on both 



Dlnm r ^ ^^^ grey- brown silky pubescence. Pedicels ^ \n,, densely silky ; bracts 



■ M Ion ' ^^^^^^-setaceous. Calyx ^ in., densely silky ; teeth linear-setaceous, a third 

 TrinffR^^P^^^ ^^^®* ^^'^^^l^ an iiich long; keel much shorter than standard and 



/ "^' ,^fi<i oblong, ^ in., sessile, silky, turgid, bilocular, 12-14-seeded. 



iodfta^' "T' ^icuspis, Fisch. Mon. Trag. No. 94; main stems elongated, 

 itedm. Ta ^^^^*i^d; flowers 1-3 together in the axils of the leaves not 

 A ff i^^""^^^^* ^^ ^s long again a^ the calyx. 'Bunge Mem. i. 43, ii. 691 

 *• lasiocladua, 5ena. .V*S*S. ° "^ 



^flexed ml >!^*^ ^^ ^* polyacanthus. Branches clothed with dense ^^.v^^v^^^ ^^ 

 ' ^iivulestjl^' °^own silky hairs. Spines 1-2 in. long, stramineous, erecto-patent. 

 or subacute^ ^^'' lanceolate-cuspidate; leaflets 13-17. oblong, J-f in. lonxr. obtuse. 

 i Jn lonff J, ®^*^gy Tnth dense pubescence like the stem. Pedicels very snort, vaiyx 

 *««1 muA Bh^P T^^ "^^"^^ ^^^^y ^^i^s ^ike t^e ^^^^' Corolla |-| in. ; wings ^and 

 Wi 8-IO-^p!^!^^ ^^® standard. Fod shaggy, subsessile, oblong, bilocular '" 



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spreading 





A low shrub with basifixed hairs, 

 and sessile calyx narrowed equally 





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^ Al^i^T?'^y^«' temperate an 



A conin^'7^^^- Afghanistan 

 anoed 



Kashmih 



than a few inches high, densely 



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f™^ ^th the ■ ''^ .^ nndershrub, not more than a few inches high, densely 

 *^^- ^ Stipules ^^^^^^^S spine-tipped stramineous petioles, which are 1-2 inches 

 ^^^.^Pt at the tin^'^^^''''''''^' deltoid, adnate to the petiole, like those of a rose, 

 s^^gUlose. FllweT' ! ^^~^^' oblanceolate, glaucous, rigid, acnte, i-| in. long, 



^''«.a,few sessile in the axil of ejich netiole. scarcely protruding 



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