260 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Error, with ALTERNATE STrpuLATE CompouUND LEAVES. 
Hedysarum 
astragaloides, 
LEGUMINOS®. 
F. B. I. ii. 146, 
Himalaya, 
11-12,000 ft. 
Kishtwar (Thomson), 
lahul (Jaeschke). 
Hedysarum 
cachemirianum, 
LEGUMINOS”. 
vel AsO 146: 
Kashmir, 
9-10,000 ft. 
Hedysarum 
laxiaorum, 
LEGUMINOS®., 
FB. 1,1, 146, 
Himalaya, 
9-12,000 ft. 
Valley of 
Kishengunga 
(Winterbottom). 
Hedysarum 
strobiliferum, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
F. B. I. ii. 146. 
Kashmir, 
9,000 ft. 
(Falconer). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
medium size, stems robust, becoming grey velvety 
at first ; leaves, including the stalk, 4-8 in. long, leaflets 
21-29, #-1 in., linear-oblong, blunt with a minute point, 
smoothish above, persistently grey velvety beneath; 
flowers 3? in., red, in very dense racemes 2-3 in. long, 
bracts linear thin projecting beyond the buds, calyx + in., 
bell-shaped, finely silky, teeth 5, petals 5, standard shorter 
than the keel, keel blunt, stamens 10, upper free, lower ones 
united, style thread-like, very long, abruptly bent; pod 
stalked, distinctly one or two-jointed, joints oblong, thin, 
with a crisped wing below, a less marked one above, 
medium size, stem robust, smooth, grooved ; leaves, 
including the stalk 6-12 in. long, leaflets 21-27, 3-14 in. 
long, linear-oblong, thin, blunt, both sides green, becoming 
smooth ; flowers 3-1 in., red, in very dense racemes, 2-8 in., 
bracts linear, bristle-like, longer than the buds, calyx 2 in., 
downy, teeth 5, petals 5, stamens and style as in the last 
species ; pod of 1 to 3 joints, $-? in. long, oblong, smooth, 
both sutures with a distinct uncrisped wing. 
medium size, stems slender, firm, smooth, leaves, 
including stalk, 3-5 in., leaflets 21-31, linear-oblong, close, 
firm, nearly leathery, smooth above, grey, barely covered 
with grey velvet beneath, flowers 3-2 in., red in loose 
racemes, 2-3 in., bracts minute, bristle-like, calyx } in., 
teeth 5, upper triangular, lower lanceolate, pod 38-4-jointed, 
oblong, firm, smooth, rather expanded, not more than } in, 
long ; otherwise like the last species. 
small, stem robust, thickly covered with short hori- 
zontal whitish hairs; leaves, including the stalk, 6-8 in., 
leaflets 19-25, oblong-lanceolate, 1-14 in., blunt, smoothish 
above, somewhat white-silky beneath ; flowers less than 4 
in., yellowish, in dense racemes, 2-8 in., bracts overlapping, 
thin, dry, stiff, bristly, quite hiding the buds, calyx 4-} in., 
tubular, teeth 5, short, triangular with sharp hard points, 
petals 5, equal, stamens and style as in the last species. 
