712 JOURNAL, B03JBA Y NA TURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Pod Bearing, Leaflets Many, 



Petals Dissimilar. 



Astragalus chlo r o s 

 tacliys, 



Leguminop^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 128. 

 Himalaya, 5-14,000 ft. 

 Simla Mahasu (Collett). 



small, many slender branches, covered with short 

 hairs ; leaves 'A-'i ins. long, stipules small, lanceolate, 

 spreading, leaflets 13-17, oblong, ^-f in, long, blunt, 

 waxy greenish blue above, white silky beneath ; flowers 

 many, h-^ in. long, yellow green tinged with lilac, 

 crowded in erect racemes 3-6 ins. long, bracts lanceo- 

 late ; hardly longer than the buds, calyx velvety, half 

 the length of the corolla, teeth very short, stamens 

 10, united all but the upper one ; pod smooth, oblong, 

 pointed, | in. long, narrowed into a stalk \ in. long, 

 seeds 6-10. 



Astragalus Stswartii, ^i'^^ *^^ ^^^*' ^^^ ^^^ leaves densely white silky, the 



LEGUMiNOSiE. bracts and calyx teeth with long bristles, the latter 



F. B. I. ii. 129. protruding beyond the buds, pods completely two- 



Hazara, 5-9000 ft. celled, seeds 6-10. 



Astragalus longi- 



caulis, 

 LEGUMiNOs.a;. 

 F. B. I.ii. 129. 



Kashmir. 



Astragalus graveo- 

 lens, 



LEGUMINOS.a:. 



F. B. 1. ii. 131. 



Hinalaya, 4-12,000 ft 

 Hazara (Douie). 

 Murree. 



Astragalus ca&dol- 

 leanus, 



LEGUMINOS.a;. 



F. B.I.ii. 132. 

 Himalaya, 8-13,000 ft. 



like the last, but leaflets 21-25, narrow-oblong ; pod 

 10-12 seeded. 



small, branches ; many, rodlike, rounded leaves 4-6 

 ins. long, stipules leafy, 1-H ins, long, leaflets 17-19 

 round-oblong, opposite, firm, blunt, smooth on both 

 surfaces, §-1 in. long ; flowers yellow^ £ in. long on 

 long stalked racemes 6-12 ins. long, bracts linear, 

 smooth, calyx tubular, smooth, § in, long, teeth half 

 the tube's length, stamens lu, all united but the upper 

 one ; pod l-lij ins, long, \ in, broad, smooth, stalked, 

 two-celled, 12-18 seeded. 



small, stems woody, a few inches long, below the 

 tufts of leaves with many woody leaf stalks of old 

 leaves with lanceolate membraneous stipules ; leaves 

 3-4 ins, long, leaf stalks 1-2 ins., finely dawny, leaflets 

 17-25, oblong, blunt, bluish waxy green, \-^ in. long, 

 more or less silky ; flowers Ii ins. long, yellow in nearly 

 sessile heads, many, bracts linear, calyx | in. long, 

 densely silky, teeth linear, stamens 10, all united but 

 the upper one ; pod f-1 in. long, curved, shortly stalk- 



