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L. LEGiJMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 



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ttlky 13-25 oHong or lanceolate-oUong, heads finally suWax, corolla half 

 as long again as the calyx, pods ascending. O. florihunda, Benth, in Royle HI 

 198. Astragalus vesiculosus^ Jacquem. MSS. 



West Himalayas, alpine region, alt 10-12,000 ft. ; Lahttl, Zanskar, Kunawab, &c. 



Tufts i-1 ft. high, crowded at the top of a woody rootstock. Xmves long-petioled; 

 2-3 in. long ; leaflets ^-^ in. long, moderately thick, pale green, densely clothed on 

 both sides with persistent adpressed white silky hairs ; stipules lanceolate or deltoid- 

 cuspidate, densely silky. Peduncles usually much overtopping the leaves ; heads 

 fiLnally 2-3 fn. long; pedicels very short; bracts minute, linear. Cal7/x ^-^ i^ l^^S' 

 densely clothed with mixed black and white silky hairs. Pod ^-| in. long, oblong- 

 cylindrical, unilocular, distinctly stalked, 6-8-seeded. . :. 



3. O. Tbomsoni, Benth. MSS. ; stemless, tall, leaflets lanceolate 

 densely white-silky 13-51, heads finally sublax, corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx, pods ascending. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine region, alt. 7-15,000 ft. ; Lahtjx, LadaK, 

 Kashmir. 



General habit of 0. mollis. Leaves long-'petioled, 4-6 in. long; leaflets grey-green, 

 narrower in proportion, |-1 in. long, not so thick nor densely silky as in the last; stipules 

 lanceolate, ^ in. long. Racemes finally 3-4 in. long ; peduncles equalling or over- 

 topping the leaves; pedicels ^-^ in. ; bracts linear, small. Calyx \-^ in., densely 

 clothed with mixed black and white silky hairs ; teeth plumose, the lower nearly as 

 long as the tube. Pod oblong-cylindrical, unilocular, 4-6-seeded, with a few minute 

 adpressed white hairs; stalk as long as the calyx-tube. .; 



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Flmcers mostly yelloiv^ rarely varying to purple. 



4. .O- densa, Benth. MSS.] acaulescent, very dwarf, leaflets 15; 17 

 minute densely-silky, heads few-flowered short-peduncled, pod ovate-cylindrical 

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West Tibet, alpine region, alt. 16-17,000 ft., Thomson, Strachey. , :L 



Tufts densely csespitose from a woody root, the whole plant not more than 1-1^ i^' 

 above the surface. Leaves under \ in. long ; leaflets ^ in. long, close, oblong, thickly 

 matted with persistent grey-silky hairs; stipules deltoid, membranous, 1^-2. in., con- 

 nate downwards. Heads 3-6-flowered; peduncles densely silky, \-l in.; pedicels 

 very short. Bracts small, linear. Calyx ^ in., densely silky; tube campanulatej 

 teeth linear, shorter than the tube. Corolla half as long again as the calyx. P^ 

 sessile, finely silky, narrowed gradually from the middle to the point, turgid, 5-^" 

 seeded. 



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Whole plant not above a couple of inches above the surface. Stipules d^^*'^'^ 

 membranous, minute ; leaflets thick, complicate, oblong, ^^ in. long, densely matted 

 with grey-brown silky hairs. Heads short-peduncled, 2-3-flowered; bracts minute, 

 pedicels very short. Calyx | in. long, tubular, densely clothed with at^cending g^^l, 

 silky hairs ; teeth linear, ^\ tube. Corolla half as long again as the calyx. Pod ^ i°* 

 long, sessile, 3-4-seeded, densely clothed with long persistent pale brown silky hairs. 



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