538 LEGUMINOS.E. Onobi-ycMs^ 



vel eam sequantibus, legumine calyce duplo longiore adpresse hirsuto 

 vel glabrato compresso semiorbiculato aculo inermi ad discum sub- 

 insequaliter foveolato crista integra disco 3-4-plo angustiore 5- 0. cor- 

 nuta Desv. Journ. Bot. — 0. Orientalis Jaume. — Ic. Tournef. Voy. 2, 

 p. 249. — 0. tragacanthoides d.c. Prodr. II, p. 347. 



Hab. in siccis regionis alpinse et subalpinse a 4500' ad 10000', ab Anatolia 

 occid. ad Belutschiam; Caria in monte Cadmo (Boiss !), Lycia in monte Akdagh 

 (Bourg. exs. 94 !), morites Akdagh et Berytdagh Cataonise (Auch. exs. 1869! 

 Haussk!), Taurus Cilicicus (Ky! Bal!), cacumina Sannin et Makmel Libani 

 (Labill! Boiss!), Hermon Antilibani (Lab! Boiss! Ky. 199!), Armenia Turcica 

 (Auch. 4449!), ad Gumuschkhane, Baibout, Erzerum (Tourn. Huet! Bourg! 

 Calv !), prope Van (Noe !), Armenia Rossica (Szow!), Caucasus orientalis 

 (M B. Rupr !), prov. Talysch (C. A.M.), Persiae prov. Aderbidjan ad Tabris et 

 Urmiah (Bge!), et in jugo Elbrus orientali prope Schahrud (Bge!), Persia aus- 

 tralis in omnibus jugis Elymaitidis alt. 10000'-12000' (Haussk!), in montibus 

 Kuh Daena et Kuh Barfi (Ky. exs. 333!), Belutschia in monte Chehel Tun alt. 

 9700 (Stocks !). Fl. Jun. Jul. 



Mire variat indumento, evolutione, foliis brevissimis vel longiusculis, folio- 

 lis minimis vel in specim. Armenis Szowitsianis 8-10 lin. longis 2-2 V^ latis. 

 Vexillum a Tournefortio erronee villosum dictum semper glaberrimum, legu- 

 men 2 */i-3 lineas longum. Species dumos pulvinatos pedem aut paulo amplius 

 altos ambitu ssepe pluripedales quibus incolse ad calefaciendos furnos utuntur 

 formans. 



26. O. Arnacantha (Bge. in litt.) fruticulosa ramosissima pul- 

 vinata petiolis crassis spinescentibus borrida patule tomentello-grisea, 

 stipulis a basi latiore longe subulatis petiolo adnatis, foliis abrupte 

 pinnatis 5-6-jugis foliolis parvis ovatis pungentibus supra parce subtus 

 dense villosulis, racemis subterminalibus sessilibus folio brcvioribus 

 paucifloris, calycis villosi corolla glabra rosea dimidio brevioris laci- 

 niis subulatis tubo duplo longioribus, vexillo apice bilobo aiis lineari- 

 oblongis carinaque sequilongis sublongiore, legumine patule villoso 

 compre?so late semiiunari calyce subduplo longiore inermi ad discum 

 insequaliter foveolato, crista integra radiatim nervosa disco vix an- 

 gustiore 5. 



Hab. in regione alpina prov. Khorassan Persise orientalis in jugo inter Nis- 

 chapur et Mesched (Bge!). Fl. Jun. 



Facies omnino Tragacanthce. pulvini lati vix pede dimidio altiores, spinse 

 validse sesquipoUicares vel longiores, foliola 2-3 lin. longa planiuscula, flores 

 sex lineas longi. Legumen 3-4 lin longum. 



27. O. Elymaitica (Boiss. et Haussk.) basi fruticosa adpres- 

 sissime hirta dumosa, ramis intricatis elongatis flexuosis pedunculis 

 vetustis viridibus foliis 2-3-plo longioribus horridis, stipulis brevibus 

 trianguiaribus connatis petiolo breviter adnatis, foliis imparipinnatis 

 3-4-jugis foliolis lineari-lanceolatis acutis, pedunculis laxe paucifloris, 

 calycis adpresse hirti corolla glabra angusta quadruplo brevioris la- 

 ciniis rigidulis lanceolato-subulatistubo subsequilongis, vexillo obiongo- 

 spathulato carina sublongiore, alis acutis carina subbrevioribus, ie- 



