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1-1^ m. ; leaflets ^| in., obtuse, densely white- canescent on both sides ; stipules small, 

 lanceolate, cuspidate, free. Flowers 6-20, in a dense head, all ascending; peduncles 

 1^2 in., finely canescent ; bracts lanceolate, shaggy, exceeding the very short pedicels. 

 Calyx ^ in. membranous, tubular at first, densely silky, becoming much inflated after 

 the petals fall ; teeth short, lanceolate. Corolla nearly twice the calyx ; wings shorter 

 than the standard ; keel shorter still. Pod ^f in., oblique oblong, silky, distinctly 



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^ Of A C(Bruleus, Hort. Paris; Bunge Mon. i. 103, ii. 184, a species near A, 

 Unobrychis, supposed to have been raised in the Paris garden from Ceylon seeds, wo 

 * ^Off nothing. :No doubt the locality is a mistake. 



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^ Herbaceous perennials with odd-pinnate leaves, the flowers usually in dense 

 peads. Cnhtx tubular or campanulate, with 5 suLeqnal teeth. Corolla more or 



; standard longest : keel shortest, pointed with a distinct cusp. 

 ^^ame7i^ diadelphous : anthers uniform. 



less exserted 



Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovnled ; 

 1 beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong or roundish, 

 tudinally within, unilocular or rarely bilocular. — Distexb. 



zone. 



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R , •— **.x«tiuu.o luxi^iLuumany wiimn, unilocular or ra 



c»pecies about 100, spread through the North temperate 



mn^^i^'"^' Hypogrlottidei. Flowers in dense ped uncled heads. Leaflets not 

 ^. ore than one from the same point.— Habit of Astragalus, section Ilypoglottis. 



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^^ all 'the flowers deflexed. 



t.fl , ^' *«'ppuiiica, fJaud, ±'L lielv, iv. 545 ; stemiess or snori-stt 

 8Pi.o;i!^A^?^^i*¥® -1*^-25, flowers in permanently dense heads, calyx nearly 



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Phaca lapponica, DC. Trodr. ii. 274. 



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Westehn Hima 



^^*-sTEHN Himalayas, frequent in the alpine and temperate regions, alt. 9-17,000 



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H in L^ • ^^^ developed, sometimes ^-^ ft. long. Leaves 1-3 in. long ; leaflets 

 'labreso t " ^° ^^^ ^yP^' "^"^^^ a few adpressed white silky hairs or sometimes nearly 



Peduncles 



l^ift'^T^'tV , i^^^*^^ J-i in., leaf-opposed, connate towards the base. 

 ^iL.:.* .r-^ °^iy a few adpressed hairs ; flowers 6-20 in a dense rounded head ; bract^ 



Calyx ^..^ in., coated with adpressed nearly black silky hairs; teeth 



j?^nute, linear. 



Si fen ^^^^^ the%ub;.' Corolla bright purple, |4 i? , ^,-, ^ . 



. ™^ the wings. Pod linear-oblouR, ^i in. long, unilocular, keeled down the 



long; keel much 



k. v - 'Wings. 



the (afyx^-tuS^' ^^"*^^^^ ^vith a^eVobseure black "or°wliite hairs; stalk as long as 



"lorethan^i '{'^^'"^o'^iiana , Benth.; stemiess, very dwarf, the whole plant not 

 ^ther laro fu "■ ^^^^' lesiAets few small thick greenish, heads 1-3-flowered, corolla 



•- Var rV '° *^^ '^'P®- ^ ^^^g^ ^^¥"6 form. 



*tite-siikv "'"y"^"' Rar. # iSTfr., sp. ; stemiess, leaflets densely and persistently 



"»pions w).;. ^^^ ^^^es, calyx more densely silky, the black hairs mixed with 



0. glacialis, JBenth. iVf55.— Alpine zone of Kashmir and Western 



^°lger,\iMi ^/^"f J««<Aa, Ba^er ; general habit and leaves of the type, but calyx 

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