116 L. 1EGUMINOS2E. (J. G. Baker.) [Caragana* 



* Leaf-rachis supjwessed. 



1. C. pyg'maea, DC. Prodr. ii. 268; leaflets 4 digitate oblanceolate gla- 

 brous, flowers solitary nearly sessile. Brand. For. Flor. 134. Robinia pygmrea, 

 Linn. Sp. PL 1044 ; Pall. Fl. Ross, i. t. 45. Genista versicolor, Wall. Cat. 

 5922 ; Royle III. t. 34, fig. 2. 0. versicolor, Benth. in Royle 111. 198. 



WEST HIMALAYAS, temperate and alpine regions ; TIBET, KUXAWAR, &c., alt. 

 8-1 7, 000 ft. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Altai to Davuria. 



A low undershrub, -with the habit of a prickly Genista, the branches armed with a 

 pungent, ascending trifid spine under an inch long from each of the close nodes. 

 Leaves solitary or geminate in the spine axils, with rarely a perceptible petiole ; 

 leaflets - in. long, firm, pale green. Pedicels jointed, shorter than the calyx. Calyx 

 glabrous, ~ in. long ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla bright reddish-yellow, f in ; 

 standard glabrous. Pod linear, turgid, glabrous, naked within, ^-1 in. long. 



* Leaf-rachis produced, with a spine at the end. 



2. C. conferta, Benth. MSS. ; leaflets 4-6 oblanceolate aubglabrous, 

 stipules spinous, flowers 1-2 subsessile. 



BALTI, temperate or alpine region, Winterbottom. 



Nodes crowded on the castaneous downy branches. Spines woody, an inch long. 

 Stipules broad, scariose, downy, with a spiny tip ; leaflets i-A in. long, obtuse, with a 

 mucro, at first faintly silky beneath, subcoriaceous. Pedicels downy, shorter than the 

 calyx. Calyx f in., finely silky ; teeth deltoid, ciliated, half as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla 1 in. long, the keel incurved, with very long claws. Ovary linear, densely 

 pubescent, 10-15-ovuled ; style long, much incurved. Pod unknown. 



3. C. G-erardiana, Royle HI. 198, t. 34, fig. 1 ; leaflets 8-12 oblan- 

 ceolate-oblong densely pubescent, stipules not spinous, flowers 1-2 subsessile. 

 Brand. For. Flor. 133. Astragalus Gerardianus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5938. 

 C. spinosissima, Benth. in Royle III. 198 ; Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. t. 43. 



WEST HIMALAYAS, temperate and alpine region, alt. 8-13,000 ft.; GURWHAL, 

 KTTMAON, KTJNAWAR, 



A shrub reaching 3-4 ft. high, with very close nodes Jind downy'young-'branches. 

 Old spines erecto-patent, pungent, 1-H in. long, often downy. Leaflets 5- f in. long,, 

 obtuse, mucronate, firm, densely silky ; stipules deltoid, scarious, not spine-tipped and 

 consequently the old spines simple, not trifid. Calyx shortly pedicelled, f in. long, 

 densely pubescent ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate, half the tube. Corolla twice the calyx. 

 Pod |-1 in by 1 in., woolly within and persistently clothed with grey pubescence' on 

 the outside. 



4. C. polyacantha, Royle HI. 198; leaflets 10-12 obovate-oblong 

 densely pubescent, stipules spinous, flowers 1-2 on a short peduncle. Astragalus 

 polyacanthus, Wall. Cat. 5934. 



CENTRAL HIMALAYA, alpine or temperate region; KUMAON, filinkworth ; GUR- 

 WHAL, Strachey and Winterbottom. 



A low shrub, with close nodes and densely downy young branches. Old spines 

 1-2 in. long, weaker and less pungent than in the last. Zea/-rachises densely matted 

 with pale brown woolly pubescence ; leaflets 5 f in. long, pale green, rigidly coriaceous, 

 truncate, mucronate. Common peduncle short and not always developed. Calyx ^ in. 

 long, densely silky, subtended by a pair of linear bracteoles ; teeth setaceous from a 

 deltoid base, half as long as the tube. Corolla yellowish, twice the calyx. Ovary 

 linear, densely pubescent. Pod unknown. 



5. C. brevispina, Royle III. 198; leaflets 12-16 obovate-oblong gla- 

 brous or finely silkv, stipules spinous, flowers 2-4 on a common peduncle. 

 Brand. For. Flor. 133. 



