306 ON THREE NEW INDIAN GENERA. 
vix semipollicares. Bracteole sub pedicellis vel ad articulationem 
pedunculi uniflori parvee, decidug. Pedicelli 1-2 lin. longi, ebracteo- 
lati. Sepala 13 lin. longa, orbieulato-concava, minute ciliolata. Pe- 
tala calyci subeequalia v. minora, elliptica, obtusa; quintum forte 
nonnunquam adest ceteris multo minus, ego tamen sedem semper 
vacuam vidi. Discus pulviniformis, carnosus, medio depressus. Sta- 
mina corolla duplo longiora; filamenta filiformia, basi extus longe pi- 
losa, ceterum glabra ; antherarum loculi longitudinaliter dehiscentes- 
| Ovarium triquetrum, acutum, in floribus pluribus submasculis parvum 
et arbortivum, in fertilibus petalis vix brevius. Fructus non vidi. 
STRACHEYA. (Nat. Ord. Leguminose-Papilionacee.) 
Next to the polyandrous Megacarpea, and. to a singular little alpine 
plant which may be a very much reduced or possibly an abnormal 
state of a Ranunculacea, this new Leguminosa is perhaps the most 
curious among the numerous plants collected in the mountains of North 
India, by Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom. Its general appearance 
and flowers are those of the stemless astragaloid Hedysara, but, as in 
JEversmannia, there is no trace of articulation in the pod; it is distin- 
guished from the latter genus by its habit, and by the pods toothed on 
the edges like those of Biserrula, besides being more or less echinate 
along the centre of the broad sides. It must be placed next to Zvers- 
mannia, with a close natural affinity to Hedysarum, although in our 
present somewhat artificial arrangement both genera rank amongst Ga- 
legee. I have great pleasure in dedicating this genus to the distin- 
guished traveller who first discovered it in the mountains of the Tibe- 
tan frontier, Captain Richard Strachey, in commemoration of the ser- 
vices he has rendered to Indian Botany during his survey of the moun- 
tains of Kamaon and adjoining districts, and of the liberality with 
which, under the sanction of the Court of Directors, he has, in con- 
junction with Mr. Winterbottom, distributed their conjoined valuable 
collections so as to render them available for the purposes of science. 
The species has evidently a wide geographical range in the Tibetan 
mountains, as Dr. Thomson gathered it at the Lanak Pass in Western 
Tibet and Dr. Hooker in Northern Sikkim, always at an elevation of 
15,000 feet and upwards, above the level of the sea. 
` Char. Gen. SrRACHEYA. Calyx bibracteolatus, dentibus 5 elongatis 
subbilabiatus. Corolle vexillum obovatum, carinam oblique trunca- 
