366 LBSUMINOSiE. (PULSE FAMILY.) 



one-fifth as long as tube ; pods almost sessile, ovate, somewhat 3-angled, 

 mucronate — Spring — Sandy fields ; Syrian desert and Damascus plateau 

 to Coelesyria, Jordan Valley, Hauran, Moab, Gilead, and southward to 

 Egypt. Probably a variety of the last. 



57. A. Amanus, Boiss. If .3, nearly stemless, glah^escent. Sti- 

 pules lanceolate, ciliolate at tip; leaflets 6-10 pairs, remote, ovate, .02 

 to .025 long, .015 to .018 broad, sparingly hairy on the lower surface at 

 mid-rih, otherwise glabrous. Racemes 3-4-flowered, short-peduncled ; 

 calyx-teeth plumose, subulate from a broader base, half as long as 

 glabrous tube ; pods loosely hispid, ovate, .025 long, obtusely triquet- 

 rous, obtuse, jmucronate, dorsal surface very broad, flat — Spring — 

 Dry schist above Beilan (Amanus). 



58. A. iiumiuulariMS, DC. 1^ .05 to. 15, villous, tufted, stem- 

 less from under-ground trunks. Stipules lanceolate, villous. Leaflets 

 8-12 pairs, round to elliptical or ovate, .006 long, sometimes retuse. 

 Flowers nearly sessile ; calyx-teeth more than half as long as tube ; 

 standard oblong-spathulate, retuse, generally pubescent, wings gla- 

 brous ; pods hirsute, ovate, .01 long, .007 broad, cuspidate, flattened 

 — Summer — 



Var. macropliyllus, Post. Leaflets .006 to .01 long. Calyx-lobes 

 less than half as long as tube ; corolla .03 long — Djurd Hasriin. 



Var. trichopterus, Post. Leaves minute. Flowers .02 long ; 

 standard linear, wings ciliate — Alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon {A. 

 trichopterus, Boiss) . 



59. A. bracliy§tacliy8, DC. % .15 to .3, short-stemmed, 

 crisp-velvety -imhescent. Stipules lanceolate, hirsute ; leaflets 8-12 pairs, 

 ovate, .01 to .013 long, obtuse. Raceme ovate, 5-7-flowered ; pedun- 

 cle shorter than leaf ; flowers .025 to .03 long; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 

 one-fourth as long as tube ; standard oblong, retuse, longer than linear 

 wings ; pod pubescent, ovate, injiated, .025 long, acute, cuspidate, 

 atipitafee — Spring — Aleppo to Aintab, and eastward. 



Var. liir§utu§, Post. Indument sparingly hirsute, not velvety-pu- 

 bescent — Marash. [ Jebel Husha' (Gilead) ?] 



60. A. pinetoruin, Boiss. !(; .3, pubescent or hirsute, stem- 

 less ; trunks subterranean. Stipules oblong ; leaflets 15-20 pairs, ellip- 

 tical, obtuse or acutish. Racemes 3-5-flowered, nearly radical, numer- 

 ous, subsessile ; calyx-teeth lanceolate, more than half as long .as 

 tube ; standard oblong, obtuse, longer than wings ; pod hirsute, semi- 

 ohlong, tric^etrous, flattened, tapering into an incurved point — Alpine 

 and sub alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



61. A. spar§u§, Dec. If .3 to .6, white-woolly ; stems white, 

 prostrate. Stipules herbaceous, elongated, tapering, leaflets 10-15 

 pairs, crowded, ovate-oblong, .015 to .02 long, obtuse, conduplicate. 

 Racemes nearly sessile, 4-5-flowered ; calyx-teeth lanceolate, somewhat 

 shorter than tube; standard oblong, .03 long; pods stellate, crustaceous, 

 hirsute, lanceolate, .05 long, .007 broad, somewhat flattened and 

 incurved, tapering into a long, oblique beak— Spring — Sinai. 



62. A. acinaciferu§, Boiss. 5 -^ ^^ -4, stemmed or nearly 

 stemless, app>ressed-strigulose, canescent. Stipules crowded, triangular; 

 leaflets about 20 pairs, ovate, obtuse or retuse, .004 to .005 long, 



