462 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE ComMPOUND LEAVES. 
Astragalus 
rhizanthus, 
LEGUMINOS#. 
BvBal: wlS1. 
Himalaya, 
9-16,000 ft. . 
Kashmir, Lahul. 
Astragalus 
bakuensis, 
LEGUMINOSS. 
eeigdi t.d Oo. 
The Salt Range 
(Stewart). 
Oxytropis lapponica, 
LEGUMINOS. 
PB 1187. 
Himalaya, 
9-17,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Oxytropis mollis, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
Bop: ued 
Himalaya, 
10-12,000 ft. 
Lahul. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
keel petals 2, united, half the length of the other petals, 
straight, blunt, stamens 10,in 2 bundles, style incurved, 
very short, stigma round; pod 4 in. long, linear, finely 
silky. 
small, perennial, stemless, rootstock woody, tufts 
1 or 2 on the top of the rootstock; leaves 2-4 in. 
long, pinnate, leaflets 31-41, 4-} in. long, oblong, blunt, 
densely silky, stipules 3-3 in., lanceolate, united to the leaf 
stalk ; flowers 3-14 in. long, yellow, in dense many-flower- 
ed nearly sessile heads at the top of the rootstock, bracts 
1.1 in., long, linear, densely silky, calyx $-3 in. long, tubu- 
lar, silky, teeth 5, linear, half as long as the tube, corolla 
half as long again as the calyx, wings shorter than the 
standard, keel shorter than the wings, stamens 10, upper 
free, others united; pod 4-2 in. long, oblong, swollen, 
densely silky, narrowed suddenly into a beak, 15-20-seeded. 
like the last species, but leaves much larger, 5-12 in. 
long, leaf stalks 2-6 in. long, densely hairy, leaflets $- in. 
long, linear, stipules 3-32 in., flowers yellow tinged with 
purple, larger in long-stalked loose many-flowered racemes. 
small, perennial, stemless or short-stemmed ; leaves 
1-3 in. long, pinnate, leaflets 13-25, 4-4 in., lanceolate, 
green with a few flat-lying white silky hairs, stipules 
1-1 in., leaf-opposed, united towards the base; flowers 
4-Lin., purple, 6 to 20 in dense rounded heads on flower 
stalks, 1-4 ft. long, bracts minute, linear, calyx 4-} 1in., 
nearly sessile, covered with flat-lying nearly black silky 
hairs, teeth 5, linear, shorter than the tube, corolla 
3-1 in. long, standard longest, keel shortest, pointed with 
a distinct tip ; pod 3-4 in. long, linear-oblong, 5-6-seeded, 
deflexed, covered with a few black or white hairs. 
like the last species, but in tufts 6-12 in. high, crowded 
at the top of a woody rootstock, leaves long-stalked, 2-8 im. 
long, leaflets densely white silky, oblong, flower stalks 
much longer than the leaves, heads finally 2-8 in. long, 
calyx longer, densely covered with black and white hairs, 
corolla half as long again as the calyx, pod longer, 6-8- 
seeded, ascending. 
