266 LEGTJMINOS^. (PULSE FAMILY.) 



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

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

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

 Egypt. Probably a variety of the last. 



57. A. Amamis, Boiss. 21 .3, nearly stemless, ghibrescent. 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 surf ace at 

 mid-rih, otherwise glah'ous. Racemes 3-4-flowered, short-peduncled ; 

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

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

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

 Dry schist above Beilan (Amanus). 



58. A. iiummularius, DC. 1i .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 obloug-spathulate, retuse, generally pubescent, wings gla- 

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

 — Summer — .» 



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

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



Var. trichopterus, Post. Leaves minute. Flowers .02 longs 

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

 trichopterus, Boiss). 4 



59. A. bracliy§tacliy§, DC. 21 .15 to .3, short-stemmed, 

 crisp-velvety-pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, hirsute ; leaflets 8-13 pairs, 

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

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

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

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

 stipitate — Spring — Aleppo to Aintab, and eastward. 



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

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



60. A. pmetorMin, Boiss. % .3, pubescent or hirsute, steA- 

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

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

 ous, subsessile ; calyx-teeth lanceolate, more lhan half ^ long as 

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

 oblong, triqmetrous, flattened, tapering into an incurved point — Alpine 

 and sub alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



61. A. $4par§ui^, Dec. If .3 to .6, white-woolly f 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. acinaciferus, Boiss. 5 -2 to .4, stemmed or nearly 

 stemless, appressed-strigulose, canescent. Stipules crowded, triangular; 

 leaflets about 20 pairs, ov^te, obtuse or retuse, . 004 to .005 long, 



