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small. Young fruit clothed with long blackish silky 
hairs. 
(2.) Astragalus prostratus, Hook. et Arn. 4. c. p. 18.— 
Conception, Messrs. Lay and Collie. Valparaiso, Cuming 
(N. 136.) —Mr. Cuming’s specimens are in a good state, 
and show that the stipules are concrete, and not distinct 
as we formerly supposed, from an examination of those 
collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie. Along with the 
last, it therefore comes near A. unifultus, DC. 
(3.) Astragalus Benthamianus (Gill. mst.); piloso-canes- 
cens, caulibus subrobustis adscendentibus, foliis 12-14- 
jugis, foliolis oblongo-ellipticis, stipülis membranaceis 
inter se longe ultra medium concretis (majusculis), race- 
mis subcapitatis pedunculatis folium subæquantibus, 
floribus (majusculis luteo-violaceis) subsessilibus, bracteis 
membranaceis lanceolatis calyce tubuloso subventricoso 
adpresse nigro-piloso dimidio brevioribus, legumine 
ovato calycem paulo superante coriaceo sericeo-tomen- 
toso monospermo sutura superiore introflexa sulcato-de- 
presso.—El Alto de los Manantiales, Andes of Mendoza, 
Dr. Gillies.—' This also is very closely allied to A. uni- 
fultus, DC.: we observed that only one of the ovules in 
each legume come to perfection. - 
(4.) Astragalus complicatus (Gill. mst.): subcanescens, 
caulibus cæspitosis prostratis brevibus ramosis, foliis 
6-7-jugis, foliolis obovatis (parvis) carnosulis, stipulis 
membranaceis ad apicem fere concretis, racemis subcapi- 
tatis paucifloris pedunculatis folium zequantibus, pedicello 
brevi bracteis membranaceis paullo breviore calycibusque 
adpresse nigro-pilosis, legumine oblongo acuto calycem 
triplo excedente coriaceo nigro-piloso sub-6-spermo su- 
tura superiore introflexa sulcato-depresso.—El Cerro de 
la Polcura, Andes of Mendoza, Dr. Gillies.—A small 
plant, of which we have not seen the-flowers: it ds Nery 
unlike any of the above species, uem - Astri 
P, haca. RT 
(1). Poiretia niti est tetraphylla, 
