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Overgate, and tell us something of its sanitary conditions. 

 With his weakened frame the attack was soon fatal, and 

 on 21st June 1852 the end came. 



At the age of forty-four the Overgate naturalist " past 

 to where beyond these voices there is peace." 



A New and Peculiar Astragalus from the Tibetan 

 Frontier. By W. W. Smith, M.A. 



Astragalus orotrephes, W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 



Inter species himalaicas adhuc cognitas foliis 3-foliolatis 

 species distinctissima. 



Planta nana, dense caespitosa, fere musciformis, habitu 

 Arenariae polytrichoides, Edgew. vel Androsace Selaginis, 

 Hook. f. et Thorns. Rhizoma lignosum ad 15 cm. longum, 

 funiforme, multiceps, ramos numerosos coluinniformes arete 

 compactos superne gignens. Caules brevissimi numerosi, 

 omnes cum ramis rhizomatis in glebam circ. 10 cm. diameti- 

 entem, infra reliquiis foliorum delapsorum dense indutam 

 conferti, supra foliis minimis omnino celati. Folia omnia 

 radicalia trifoliata : rachis 4-5 mm. longa, albo-hirsutula, 

 stipulis circ. 4 mm. longis irregulariter ovatis membranaceis 

 albo-ciliatis instructa ; foliola sessilia, medianum 3 mm. 

 longum, lateralia 2 mm. longa, lanceolata, ita incurva ut 

 linearia videantur, dense albo-hirsutula. Flores solitarii 

 hinc inde in summa gleba paululo eminentes. Calyx 

 4 mm. longus, ad tertiam partem in dentes subaequales 

 lineari-lanceolatos divisus, undique plus minusve dense 

 hirsutulus. Corolla circ. 6 mm. longa, segmentis subae- 

 qualibus. Stamina diadelpha. Ovarium sessile minute 

 sparse hirsutulum stylo 3 mm. longo incurvo praeditum. 

 Fructus (immaturus) 4-seminiferus. 



East Himalaya. — Collected by the Political Officer, 

 Sikkim, July 1902. Type in the Calcutta Herbarium. 



The exact locality is not noted on the ticket. The 

 specimen was probably collected on the Tibetan plateau 

 beyond or at the boundaries of Sikkim. The plant appears 

 to have been collected only once. From its leaves and the 

 fewness of its seeds it does not fit well into Astragalus, but 



