330 XLVIII. LEGUMINOS^. 



long, sleuder, terete, clothed \vith appressed white hairs. Leaves petioled, 

 |-n in. long, with a terminal leaflet ; stipules lanceolate, hairy, free. 

 Leaflets 11-21, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, ^-\ in. long, clothed on both 

 sides with appressed white hairs, base rounded or subacute ; petiolules 

 very short. Flowers 6-12, sessile, in dense heads ; peduncles axillary, 

 |-| in. long, appressedly hairy. Calyx tVtV ^Q- ^ong, densely hairy; 

 teeth linear-subulate, about as long as the tube. Corolla ^ in. long ; 

 standard orbicular, with a very long claw. Pods i-§ in. long, linear- 

 oblong, membranous when ripe, straight, mucronnte, turgid, densely 

 silky-pubescent, nearly bilocular. Seeds 4-6, reniform, dark-brown, 

 n. B. I. V. 2, p. 121 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 43 ; Bunge, Monogr. 

 Astr. (1868-69) part 1, p. 9 ; part 2, p. 6. 



A very rare plant.. Sind : Sfocks ex Aitch. 1. c. 



I have seen no specimens from the Bombay Presidency. — Distrib. India (Panjab) ; 

 Egypt, Arabia, Cape Verde Islands. 



2. Astragalus contortuplicatus, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 758. 

 Annual ; stems numerous, 6-18 in. long, suberect or procumbent, obscurely 

 angled, clothed with soft spreading vhite hairs. Leaves 2^-4 in. long, 

 imparipinnate, distinctly petioled; stipules large, broadly ovate, acute, 

 free. Leaflets 13-17, oblanceolate, elliptic or oblong, ^-g in. long, 

 densely pilose on both surfaces ; petiolules short. Flowers numerous, 

 in dense heads ; peduncles axillary, much shorter than the leaves, clothed 

 with long soft spreading hairs ; bracts linear-subulate, plumose. Calyx 

 i-^ in. long, densely pilose ; teeth longer than the tube, linear-subulate, 

 plumose, the 3 lower the longer. Corolla yellow, slightly exserted, 

 deciduous ; standard oblong, obcordate ; wings narrow, much shorter 

 than the standard ; keel broader and longer than the wings. Pods | in. 

 long, completely bilocular except at the apex, quite contortuplicate, 

 membranous, rugose, densely pilose. Seeds 20-30, i-eniform. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2, p. 122; Aitch. Pb. & S'ind PI. p. 43 ; Bunge, Monogr. Astr. part 1, 

 p. 18 ; part 2, p. 20 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 422. 



Rare. Sis-n: Stocks, 400.'; Hyderabad, Woodrow.—DisTum. India (Panjab) ; 

 E. Europe, Orient, W. Siberia. 



3. Astragalus Stocksii) BcniJi. ex Buncje, Monogr. Astr. (1868-69) 

 part 1, p. 6 ; part 2, p. 4. Shrubby, much-branched ; branches elongate, 

 hairy with appressed soft hairs, armed with yellow spreading spines 

 (really the persistent rhachises of fallen leaflets), \-'^ in. long. Leaves 

 abruptly-pinnate, the rhachis ending in a spine, the leaves on the young 

 shoots with a strong spiny fulvous persistent rhachis with a resting bud 

 in its axil which develops in the second season, the leaflets deciduous, 

 leaving scars on the spiny rhachis ; leaves of the second season with 

 slender rhachises fascicled in the axils of the naked old ones, whirh then 

 appear as spines ; stipules minute, caducous. Leaflets 2-3 pairs, obovate, 

 oblong or oblanceolate, ^-\ by j^^-g in., clothed with closely appressed 

 medifixed hairs, base usually acute ; petiolules short. Flowers in lax 

 short or elongate, 5-7- flowered racemes; bracts minute. Calyx shortly 

 campanulate, ^-^ in. long, hairy ; teeth short, triangular. Corolla 

 g-y^ in. long, yellow ; standard broadly obovate-oblong, ret use. Pods 

 stalked, {-^ in. long, glabrous, completely bilocular, attenuated at both 

 ends, sulcate and very convex on the dorsal, straight on the ventral side. 



