374 LEOUMINOSiE (pulse FAMILY.) 



102. A. Kot§chyaiiiis, Boiss. 11 .2 to .4, appressed-canes- 

 cent, diffuse. Stipules minute, triangular-lanceolate, connate at base ; 

 leaflets 6-9 pairs, linear elliptical, about .01 long, those of lower leaves 

 ovate-oblong. Peduncles slender, twice or thrice as long as leaf ; 

 heads ovate-globular, .02 long, in fruit oblong, loose, .04 long; bracts 

 linear, somewhat longer than pedicel ; calyx appressed-white- and 

 black-hairy, teeth about half as long as tube ; corolla twice to thrice 

 as long as tube, ^>i^?7:>Zc — May and June — Coelesyria, Antilebanon, 

 and Damascus to Aleppo, Aintab, Marash, and northward. 



103. A. trifoliolatiis, Boiss. % .4 to .5, appressed-canescent, 

 base woody, tortuous ; stems slender, wand-lile, nearly nalced. Stip- 

 ules short, r?/%-7i«i>y, connate ; leaflets /<szo, linear, trefoil, the pe 

 tiole shorter than the leaflets, the wpfjermoat lea.ves sessile, simple. Pedun- 

 cles longer than leaves; racemes short, rather loose, ovate, few-flowered; 

 bracts oblong-linear, twice as long as pedicel ; calyx wooUy-canescent, 

 teeth lanceolate, somewhat less than half as long as tube; corolla near- 

 ly twice as long as calyx ; pods oblong, .01 to .015 long, twice as long 

 as calyx, ending in a long, incurved beak — June and July — Ccele- 

 syria ; Antilebanon. 



104. A. scliizopterus, Boiss. 2|! .1 to .2, green, glaucous, 

 except the sparingly appressed- ristly, upper face of leaflets. Stipules 

 lanceolate, tapering, hairy; leaflets 7-15 pairs, round-ovate, .003 to .006 

 lono", somewhat retiise. Scapes shorter than leaves, procumbent, end- 

 ing^in racemes at length rather loose ; calyx sparingly appressed- 

 white- and black-hairy, teeth lanceolate subulate, nearly half as 

 long as tube ; standard oblong, tapering, twice as long as calyx, 

 refuse ; pods linear, .04 long, .003 broad, erect, gla rous or sparingly 

 hairv, mottled, flattened, straight or somewhat incurved, cuspidate — 

 April and May — Nusairy Mountains to Cassius, Akherdagh, and north- 

 ward. 



105. A. aiicistrocarpii§, Boiss. et Haussk. If! .1 to .25, 

 appressed-bristly, canescent. Stipules trian_ular-lanceolate ; leaflets 

 5-11 pairs, rather remote, fleshy, odovate to elliptical, .005 to .01 long, 

 mucronulate, the upper face often sparingly bristly. Scapes usually 

 shorter than leaves, ending in an oblong, loose, 5-20-flowered raceuie ; 

 bracts triangular-lanceolate, twice as long as pedicel ; calyx appres- 

 sed-white- and black-hairy, teeth triangular-lanceolate, one-fifth as 

 Ion'; as tube ; standard strongly recurved, ovate, twice as long as 

 calyx ; pods spreading, sparingly bristly, Jiattened-cylindrical, .05 

 long, .004 broad, strongly incurved — April and May — Syrian Desert, 

 and eastward. 



106. A. eloiigatus, Willd. % .3 to A, appressed-canescent. 

 Stipules triangular-lanceolate, silky ; leaves .15 to .2 long ; leaflets 5- 

 9 pairs, ovate to ovate-oblong, the larger ones .015 to .02 long, acutish, 

 mucronulate. Scapes longer than leaves ; raceme many flowered ; 

 calyx white- and black -hairy, teeth one-third as long as .01 long tube ; 

 corolla yellow, standard not constricted at tip, twice as long as 

 calyx, .02 long ; pods pendulous, ovate-oblong, .015 long, .008 to 

 .01 broad, ending abruptly in a straight or somewhat oblique cusp 

 May and June — Aintab to Marash, and northward. 



107. A. angulosus, DC. 2^ .1 to .15, appressed-yellowish- 

 canescent. Stipules minute, triangular, hairy ; leaflets 5-10 pairs. 



