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at first close, becoming 2-3 in. long when they expand. Cal^x | in. long, tubular, v 

 clothed -with large sessile glands, nearly glabrous ; teeth short, linear, pubescent. Corolla 

 bright purple, twice the calyx. Pod half-bilocular, sessile, linear, turgid, recurved, 

 densely gland-dotted, glabrous, bilocular; seeds 20-30. 



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Sect. 3. Pbaooidei. Herbaceous caulescent perennials, with flowers in 



elongated racemes. — Habit of Astragalvs^ section Phaca, 



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 Astrag, No. 31, t. 8 ; Pf'od}\ ii. 280. 



West Tibet, temperate legion, alt. 7-8000 feet. — Distrib. "West Siberia. 



Caulescent, 1-2 ft. high. Stems copiously branched, firm, slender, zigzag, terete, 

 glabrous. Leaves 2-3 in. long; leaflets 9-13, lanceolate, ^1 in. long, green, rather 

 thick, acute, glabrous or with only a few minute obscure hairs ; stipules minute, 

 free, deltoid, foliaceous. Racemes 2-4 in. long ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute, 

 lanceolate. Calyx ^ in., campanulate, with a few adpressed black and white hairs. 

 Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod |-^ in. long, oblong, sessile, turgid, unilocular, 

 straight, glabrous, 6-10-seeded. 



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Much-branched undersbrubs. Leaves simple or 3-foliolate. Flowei^s in lax 

 racemes. Calyx-tvhe turbinate ; teeth 5, distinct, setaceous from a deltoid base. 

 Corolla marcescent, mucb exserted ; standard obovate ; wings small, much 

 shorter j keel obtuse, as long as the standard. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers 

 uniform. ' Ovary stalked, 2-4-OTulate ; style long, filiform, inflexed, stigma 

 minute, capitate. Pod of 1-4 flattened indehiscent densely muricated joints 

 Distrib. Species 3-4, reaching Egypt and Abyssinia. 



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■ 1. T. nummularia, DC. Prodr, ii. 339 ; Me7n. Leg. vi. t. 52 ; Bom 

 FL Orient, ii. 508. Hedysarum nummularifolium, DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 

 102. H. sparteum, Burm. FL Ind. 1G6, t. 51, fig. 2 ? T. spartea, DC. loc. cUJ 

 Onobrychis diffnsa, Caanb. in Jacquem. Toy. Bot. t. 49. T. cuneifolia. Am. in 

 Wight Ic. t. 1055 ; Dak. 8f Gibs. Bomb. FL 67. T. gonoclada and T. ephedro- 

 ides, Jaub. ^ Spach, IlL t. 61 and 62. Hedysarum Gibsoni, Grah. Cat. Bomb. 

 P/. 49. 



Plains of Scinde and the Punjab. — Distrib, Afghanistan, Orient. 



A copiously-branched undershrub, 1-2 ft. high, with slender finely canescent 

 terete branches. Leaves shortly petioled, usually 3-foliolate; leaflets very variable in 

 size, |-1 in. long, obovate-oblong or nearly round, thick, pale green, thinly canescent 

 beneath, the side ones not opposite ; stipules free, minute, lanceolate, scariose. Racemes 

 few- or many -flowered, usually exceeding the leaves. Calyx ^-^ in., thinly silty- 

 Corolla red, glabrous, |-^ in. Joints of pod 1-4, roundish. 



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Villous herbs or imdershrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets entire, exsti- 

 pellate ; petiole often spinose. Flowers red, in dense peduncled axillary spil^^ 

 Calyx-teeth 5, subeqnal, setaceous, plumose, exceeding the tube. Corolla niu<5fl 

 shorter than the calyx ; standard broad ; heel obtuse, as long as standard ; "svings 

 short. Stamens monadelphous, the upper free at the base ; anthers uniforifl* 

 Ova7'y sessile, 1-ovulate ; style filiform, incurved, stigma capitate. Pod fla^J 



oblong, included in the calyx-tube, membranous, indehiscent. — Distrib. Specie^ 



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