Astragalus.'] L. LEGUMINOS^:. (J. G. Baker.) 119 



* Animals with slender trailing stems and sessile pods (habit of Subgen. 

 Trimeniseus). 



2. A. amherstianus, Benth. in Royle III. 199 ; corolla scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, pod 10-12-seeded with the valves but little intiexed. Bunge 

 Man. i. 5, ii. 3. 



"West Himalayas, temperate region, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; KISTWAR, KUNAWAR, 

 CHAMBA, SIMLA. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



Stems densely caespitose, diffuse, |-1 ft., clothed with dense adpressed whitish hairs. 

 Leaves short-petioled, 1-1| in. ; leaflets 13-17, narrow, oblong, obtuse, ^-f in. long, 

 densely clothed with thick adpressed white hairs ; stipules minute, lanceolate. Flowers 

 4-10, in close distinctly-peduncled racemes ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute, seta- 

 ceous. Calyx ~ in., shaggy with hairs like those of the leaves ; teeth setaceous, as 

 long as the tube. Corolla primrose-yellow. Pod linear, turgid, f- in. long, much 

 recurved, rostrate, thinly pubescent. 



3. A. subumbellatus, Klotzschin Reise Pr. Wold. Sot. 159, t. 3; 

 corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, pod 20-24-seeded with the 

 sutures much inflexed. A. hippocrepidis, Benth. MSS. ; Bunge Mon. i. 5, ii. 3 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 231. A. Scorpiurus, Bunge Mon. loc. cit. A. humifusus, 

 Jacquem. MSS. 



PUNJAB, HAZARA, KASHMIR, tropical and temperate regions, ascending to 

 6-7000 ft. DISTRIB. Beloochistan, Afghanistan. 



Stems i-1 ft., diffuse, branched, clothed with short deciduous ascending white 

 hairs. Leaves 1-2 in.; leaflets 13-21, distant, oblong, glaucous, ^f in., thinly or 

 densely pilose or nearly glabrescent ; stipules minute, lanceolate, cuspidate. Eacemes 

 distinctly peduncled, 6-10-flowered, lax or close ; pedicels very short ; bracts setaceous, 

 very minute. Calyx in., thinly pubescent ; teeth setaceous, as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla f in., yellow tinged with rose-purple ; blade of wings lanceolate, shorter than 

 the standard and keel. Pod | | in., cylindrical, much recurved, shortly pubescent, 

 almost completely bilocular. 



* Perennials with slender ccespitose trailing stems and stalked pods (habit 

 of Subgen. Hypoglottis). 



4. A. pycnorhizus, Wall. Cat. 5927 ; glabrous, flowers 1-2, calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate nearly as long as the tube, wings shorter than the keel. Benth. 

 in' Royle 111. 199 ; Bunge Mon. i. 4, ii. 1. Sphaerophysa pycnorhiza, Benth. Gen. 

 Plant, i. 504. 



NIFAL, WallicTi. SIKKIM, alt. 6-12,000 ft., HooJc.fil. 



Root woody, fusiform. Stems wiry, i-1 ft. Leaves an inch or more long ; leaflets 

 close, llll 3, green, obovate-oblong, truncate-emarginate, | in. long, clothed with 

 only a few very short obscure hairs ; stipules free, minute, membranous, deltoid. Pe- 

 duncles equalling or exceeding the leaves, clothed with short mixed black and white 

 hairs ; pedicels very short ; bracts membranous, lanceolate. Calyx \ in., gibbous, clothed 

 with minute pubescence like that of the peduncle. Corolla ^ | in., purplish ; limb of 

 standard round, | in. broad ; wings half as broad as the depth of the keel. Pod ^--f in. 

 long, glabrous, inflated, 12-16-seeded, the suture not inflexed ; stalk much shorter 

 than the calyx. 



5. A. Bonianus, DC. Prodr. ii. 283; slightly pubescent, flowers few, 

 wings as long as the keel, calyx-teeth half as long as the tube. Bunge Mon. 

 i. 4, ii. 1. A. macrorhizus, Don Prod. 245, non Cav. 



NIPAL, Wallich. 



Plant prostrate, beset with a few scattered adpressed hairs. Leaves with 8-10- 

 pairs of oval alternate mucronulate leaflets, which are pubescent beneath, but when 



