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Oxytropis.^ 



L. LEQUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) 



139 



^ West Tibet, alpine region, frequent, alt. 13-17,000 ft. ; Ntjbea, Zanskae, Piti, 

 Parang, Ladak, &c. 



•■ Densely tufted, the whole plant 3-4 in. high. Leaves |-1 in. long ; leaflets close, 

 except the lowest, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, ^-| long, thick, densely persistently 

 matted with white silky hairs on both sides; stipules minute, deltoid, silky. Flowers 

 2{M0, in very dense heads ; pedicels scarcely any; bracts minute, linear, white-plu- 

 mose. Cali/x ^-\ in., densely white-silky ; teeth nearly or quite as long as the tube. 

 lOTolla not more than half as long again as the calyx, usually all yellow, rarely pur- 

 ple or the keel tipped with purple ; standard oblong-spathulate, exceeding the wings 

 and keel. Poc? much inflated, membranous, sessile, j-f in. long, 5-6-seeded, shaggy 

 ^th loose dense white silky hairs. 



7. O. cachemirica, Camh. in Jaequem. Voy. Bot 38, t. 44; stem 

 ^^^^ 13-21 oMong-lanceolate densely white-silkv; heads dense long- 



peduncled, bracts distinct lanceolate, pod sessile inflated round-oblong xmi- 



_^West Tibet and Kashmir, temperate zone, alt. 8-10,000 ft.— Distrib. Central 



Whole plant 



ft. high. Stems 



»h> ..^^^^^ 1-2 in. long; leaflets |-^ in. long, clothed on both sides with loose 

 wnite silky hairs; stipules lanceolate or deltoid, connate downwards. Flowers 12-30 

 n a dense head; pedicels very short. Calyx %\u, long, densely white-silky; teeth 

 near, nearly or quite as long as the tube. Corolla half as long again as the caly 



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just like that of the last but rather larger. 



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Bung 



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Stewa t^ ^^■"^XAs, temperate region ; vallej of Kishengu 

 juf "'f a foot or more high, at first thinly pilose. 



Leaves 3-4 in. long ; leaflets 



_ whitish hairs on both sides; sti- 



oblong. Flowers 12-2o"in a dense head ; peduncles erect, 



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^6in.bng; pedicels .^^ ^^ _. , ___ __, ^ ^ _. _^, 



loiJfl V^*' tubular, thinly clothed with adpressed black hairs; teeth linear, half as 

 turSid i 3 -^^^^ Wack-plumose. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Fod oUong, 



%r O "1- long, straight, 6-8-seeded, with a few dark silky hairs. 

 speciT' V u P^^cured from Nipalese Tibet flower-heads of a fifth yeUow-flowered 

 "Mers f ^^7^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ material goes, matches the Siberian 0, argentata, Led. It 

 as the biK? ^f'^ishausenii hj larger bracts, longer calyx with linear teeth as long 



ihcrrter ' 



<^Iyx. 



_^. in proportion, not more than half as long again as the 



-inese two represent in the Himalayas the group of 0. campestris. 



den 



Sect. 2. 



Vertlcill 



with 



^ljJj™S'^ith leaflets often iu pairs from the same point, so that they are 

 iea when the nodes are onDosite on the two sides of the leaf-rachis. 



P '"d 



rt' - 



dulio^Koi^^if °P**y"a» ^C'- I'lodr. ii. 279 ; Led. Fl Jioss. I 

 y^}iia, Hoyle IU. Y^S; Camb. inJacquem. Voy. Bot. 38, t *- 



578. 0. 



45 



lIlfeRrV,?''"''^^^^^' alpine region, alt. 11-16,000 ft.; 



Zanskar, Piti, Sassab, 



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BRA TTTr. — -^ ' ttipiue region, alt, 

 S^£^^^^«' &c. ; ^ly^Ki^^ Hook. Jil 

 ^^«tock ti,^^^i^\' *"^ ^^- ^^g*^' ^^® t^^^^s densely cflespitose at tne top oi a woouy 

 ^% haiA r ^f^^^ imbricated stipules clothed with dense tufts of long white 

 ^*^^g, subcoV -^ ^^^^t-P^tioled, 1^-3 in. long; leaflets crowded, linear-oblong, ^4 m. 

 ^^ch reflex T^^^^' gi'ey-green, gland-dotted, with fine deciduous pubescence, tie edges 

 , , V. ^ea. Fedunclcs equalling or overtopping the leaves ; flowers 4-15, the heads 



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