56 DR. 7. E. Т. AITCHISON ON THE BOTANY OF 
longus. Petala 9-10 lin. longa, vexillo glabro petala reliqua superante. Fructus 
15-16 lin. longus, 23 lin. diam. 
Ad A. hyrcanum, Pall., magis accedit. 
Hari-rud valley : 1053, Мау 9, 1885. А low shrub, about 2 feet in height. 
AsTRAGALUS ($ OERCIDOTHRIX) TALBOTIANUS, Aitch. et Baker, n. sp. Fruticulosus, 
caulibus brevibus, petiolis vetustis strictis pluribus persistentibus, foliis impari- 
pinnatis pilis albidis hispidulis adpressis ubique vestitis, stipulis lanceolatis basi ad 
petiolum adnatis, foliolis 9-13 oblanceolatis subacutis, racemis paucifloris breviter 
peduneulatis, pedicellis brevibus nigro-pilosis, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, calyce pilis 
plerisque nigris dense vestito, tubo oblongo-cylindrico, dentibus lanceolatis tubo 
3-4-plo brevioribus, petalis luteis calyce sesquilongioribus, ovario lineari biloculari 
multiovulato. 
Habitus omnino A. Goreani. Petioli 6-15 lin. longi; lamina 1-23 poll. ; foliola 
3-6 lin. longa. Pedunculus 1-2 poll. longus. Racemi 2—6-flori, pedicellis floriferis 
1-2 lin. longis omnibus ascendentibus. Calyz 8-9 lin. longus. Corolla circiter 
pollicaris, vexillo glabro petala reliqua superante. 
Ad precedentem (4. Goreanum) arcte accedit. Varietas condensatus adest, 
| habitu dense condensato, floribus et foliis minoribus. 
Hari-rud valley: 202, April 13, 1885 (type); April 10, 1885 (var. condensatus). 
A common small bush much browsed by sheep, &c. 
GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 202. 
Hari-rud valley: August 5, 1885; Badghis: 129, March 1885, May 22, 1885. 
Native name Mahk, Sus. One of the most common and characteristic shrubs of the 
Badghis, and generally common throughout the Hari-rud valley, but always near water. 
I do not remember ever seeing it in Khorasan. Тһе great underground root-stocks make 
excellent fuel even when green and moist; and from them is obtained a common house- 
hold medicine, a coarse extract (Liquorice), called by the Turkomans Mahk, and by the 
Persians Asus, Rob-a-sus. 
GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA, Linn. var. y. GLANDULIFERA, Reg. et Herd. ; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 
р. 202. 
Badghis : 509, Мау 18, 1885; Hari-rud valley: June 6, 1885. 
GLYCYRRHIZA TRIPHYLLA, Fisch. еб Меу.; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 208. 
Hari-rud valley : 737, August 8, 1885; Khorasan: July 3, 1885. 
Among stony shingle, forming a thick sward in the beds of dried-up water-courses, 
especially on the tract of land between two stream-beds where they join. Flowers ex- 
tremely pretty, in snow-white spikes. 
EVERSMANNIA HEDYSAROIDES, Bunge; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 510. 
Hari-rud valley : 574, May 27, 1885. 
. Common in gravel and clay soil, on the sides of escarpments, a bush of from two to 
three feet, covered with dense masses of rose-coloured flowers ; very handsome and would 
be well worth cultivating. | 
