1 7 3 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 
Koordistan. 
Gum emollient, demulcent ; nutritive. : 
Irritation of mucous membranes, gonorrhea, as a vehicle for calomel. 
A. strobiliferus Lindley.—(Rep Tracacantu.) Fig. 243. | 
spiny bush ; leaflets woolly, in 3 pairs, aristate; flowers in sessile axillary 
- ovate cones ; calyx feathery. 
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Habitat, Koordistan. 
Quality and Uses, As the last, but of inferior quality. 
A. verus Olivier. ; : 
isually said to be the source of gum Tragacanth, is very little different 
from No. 1. 
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= Muouna. Adanson. , 
Calye campanulate ; the upper of its two lips broad and entire. tandard 
ihre than the ong ad keel. Stamens eps ater — 
oh rfect. Pod oblong, torose, 2-celled, covered with brittle stinging : 
airs, 
. M. pruriens De Candolle.—(Cowace Pian.) P : 
Flowers racemose ; leaflets 3, staat the middle rhomboid, hairy on 
the under side. oe 
wi East Indies. : Tees 
uality. Root diuretic ; hairs of the pod brittle and productive of unbearable itching, 
in worm cases. 
TEPHROSIA. seca ; ata 
‘aly nearly equal, 5-toothed. Standard broad, downy on FT”, mie 
" Btamens dnreagitatly monadelphous or diadelphous. Pod sessile, com- 
Pressed, many-seeded, with flat valves. ea 
T. Apollinea De Candolle.—(Eeyptian INDIGO.) Fig. oi esta, 
ling, with close-pressed hairs ; leaflets in 4 or 5 pain , 
ilky beneath. 
Fig. 242.—Astragalus gummifer ; 243. A. — 
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