Plants of the Punjab. 257 
Herss, Hrect, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
and keel, petals, stamens and style as those of the last 
Species; pod lin., expanded, smooth, oblong, stalked, 
narrowed to both ends, 6-8-seeded. 
FLOWERS, IN HEADS, IN THE NEXT SEVEN SPECIES OF ASTRAGALUS, 
Astragalus 
prolixus, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
RB, nu. T3l. 
The Plains. 
Lahore, 
Astragalus 
Aitchisoni, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
Babylon 121, 
Salt Range 
(Aitchison). 
Pindigheb. 
Rawalpindi District 
(Douie). 
Astragalus 
contortuplicatus, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
BB. An. 122. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
AND TWO OF OXYTROPIS. 
small, annual weed, clothed densely with  flat-lying 
white hairs, very slender; leaves 4-14 in., distinetly 
stalked, stipules free, minute, lanceolate, leaflets 11-17, 
oblong, blunt, }-} in., covered with the white hairs; 
flowers 51, in., yellow, 6-12 together in heads on stalks 
a little shorter than the leaves, calyx less than +5 in., 
densely matted, teeth 5, linear-bristle-like, nearly equal to 
the calyx tube, petals, stamens and style as above; pod 
3-2 in., sessile, expanded, densely velvety, straight, linear- 
oblong, 6-8-seeded. 
small, annual weed, slender, thinly covered with 
white hairs ; leaves 14-24 in., distinctly stalked, stipules 
triangular, minute, leaflets 17-25, 4 in., alternate, wide 
apart, grey green, a few short horizontal white hairs ; 
flowers 4 in., white with a purple tip, in a loose head 
of 4-6 flowers on a short stalk, bracts minute, calyx 
4 in., bell-shaped, thinly white silky, teeth 5, linear or 
lanceolate, petals 5, standard longer than the wings and keel, 
stamens and style as those in the last species ; pod 1} in., 
slender, straight or slightly curved, slightly clothed with 
white hairs, 15-20-seeded, seeds very small. 
small, annual weed, covered with short, soft, spreading 
white hairs; leaves 8-4 in., distinctly stalked, stipules 
small, free, lanceolate, leaflets 13-17, oblong-lanceolate with 
a broad and notched tip, +4 in., wide apart, greenish, 
soft scattered hairs on both sides ; flowers + in., yellow, in 
dense many-flowered heads on stalks, with few scattered 
soft hairs, much shorter than the leaves, calyx } in., with 
a few scattered soft hairs, teeth 5, bristle-like, feathered, 
petals 5, projecting a little from the calyx, wings lance- 
olate, short-pointed, shorter than the standard and keel, 
stamens and style like those in the last species ; pod 3 in., 
cylindrical, much recurved, sausage-shaped, folded length- 
wise, wrinkled, 20-30-seeded. 
