118 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) \_Guldenstcedtia. 



large, leafy, ovate ; leaflets ^-5- in. long, not at all rigid. Peduncle filiform, 1-3 in. 

 long ; pedicels shorter than calyx ; bracts lanceolate, very minute. Calyx ^ in., silky ; 

 upper teeth deltoid, lower lanceolate. Corolla 3-4 times calyx; standard round, 

 glabrous. Pod linear, glabrous, ^ in. long, 6-8-seeded, with a narrow border to the 

 upper suture. 



2. G. mirpourensis, Benth. MSS.\ steinless, leaflets 3-7 oblong- 

 obscurely pubescent, flowers 1-3, calyx-teeth, as long as the tube. Astragalus 

 mirpourensis, Camb. in Jacqucm. Voy. Sot. 39, t. 46. 



UPPER G-ANGETIC plain .at Mirpour, Jacquemont. HAZARA, Dr. Stewart.' 

 Rhizomes slender, branched, with the leaves and peduncles in a rosette at the sur- 

 face. Petiole -i 1 in., obscurely pubescent, like the rachis and underside of the 

 leaves; leaflets - in. long, obtuse, glabrescent above, not at all rigid. Peduncle as 

 longTis the leaves ; pedicels scarcely any. Calyx % in. finely silky ; teeth lanceolate- 

 acuminate. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod twice the calyx, linear, finely silky. 



3. Cr. xnultiflora, Bunge Enum. PL Chin. 18 ; stemless, leaflets 11-13 

 oblong densely silky, flowers 3-C, calyx-teeth as long as the tube. 



WEST HIMALAYA, Royle, the exact station not known. DISTRIB. China. 



Rosettes of leaves and peduncles densely crowded at the surface on a slender woody 

 rhizome, ieo/'-rachis 2-4 in., including the distinct petiole, densely pubescent ; 

 leaflets $- in., obtuse, soft, not rigid. Peduncle equalling or overtopping the leaA T es %, 

 bracts linear, exceeding the very short pedicels. Calyx \ in.; teeth linear-lanceo- 

 late. Corolla violet or yellow, twice the calyx. Pod twice the calyx, linear, straight, 

 densely pubescent. 



26. ASTRAGALUS, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs with pinnate leaves, the leaf-rachis terminating either 

 in a leaflet or a spine. Calyx tubular or campanulate, equal or gibbous on the. 

 back ; teeth 5, subequal. Corolla usually distinctly exserted ; petals subequal 

 or wings and keel shorter than the standard, the keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers imiform. Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovuled ; style 

 incurved, stigma capitate. Pod linear or oblong, usually turgid, continuous- 

 within or more or less completely longitudinally 2-celled from the introversion 

 of the inferior suture. DISTKIB. Belts the world in the north-temperate zone, 

 the head quarters being Western and Central Asia. Monographed in the llth 

 volume of the 7th series of the Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of St.. 

 Petersburg, by Bunge, who estimates the number of species at 1150-1200. 



STJBGEN. 1. Trichostylus, Baker. A herbaceous perennial, with basifixed 

 hairs, the style bearded down the inner face below the stigma, as in Phaseolus. 



1. A. Beydei, Baker. 



WEST TIBETAN HIMALAYAS, alpine region, alt. lo- 16,000 ft., Strachey. By the 

 Tso-kar sea, between Eupschu and Korsog, Heyde. 



Rhizome slender, woody, the whole plant not reaching more than an inch above the 

 soil. Leaves \-^ in. long ; leaflets 17-19, oblong, crowded, complicate, persistently 

 argenteo-canescent, fleshy ; stipules small, deltoid, fleshy, spreading. Peduncles \-% in. 

 Flowers 2-4 in a close umbellate head ; bracts and pedicels minute. Calyx in.,, 

 densely argenteo-canescent ; teeth lanceolate-deltoid, rather shorter than the campanu- 

 late tube. Corolla more than twice the calyx, rose-red with the tip deeper ; petals 

 subequal ; limb of standard round, reflexed, deeply emarginate. Pod \ in, long, oblong,, 

 membranous, much inflated, short-stalked, glabrous, 1 -celled, many-seeded. 



STJBGEKT. 2. Fogonophace, Bunge. A group of various habit, with 

 "basifixed hairs, differing from all the rest by its penicillate stigma. 



