120 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. Gr. Baker.) [Astragalus. 



young silky ; stipules connate. Peduncles twice as long as the leaves. Calyx in. long. 

 Corolla purple ; standard f in. long, blade broad. Pod silky, subulate, 20-seeded. 

 Described from DC. and Bunge loc. cit. No specimen seen. 



6. A. kongrensis, Benth. MSS. ; green, finely silky, flowers in a dense 

 head, wings shorter than the keel, calyx clothed with adpressed silky hairs, 

 teeth lanceolate much shorter than the tube. 



SIKKIM ; Kongra Lama, alt. 15,000 ft., Hook. fil. 



Subacaulescent, with a slender rhizome, creeping below the surface. Leaves dis- 

 tinctly petioled, 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 15-17, roundish-oblong, obtuse, not complicate, 

 pale green, thinly coated with short white hairs ; stipules - g- in., ovate, obtuse, per- 

 sistent, slightly silky. Flowers 5-6, ascending or cernuous, in a dense head ; peduncles 

 1^-2 in., erect, clothed with adpressed black hairs ; pedicels very short, densely black- 

 silky; bracts linear, not very small. Calyx ^ in. Corolla twice the calyx, deep 

 purple ; keel as long as the standard. Ovary densely silky, multiovulate, with a stalk 

 nearly as long as the calyx-tube. 



7. A. tribulifolius, Benth. MSS. ; glaucous, densely tomentose, leaflets 

 crowded, flowers few in a dense head, calyx-teeth subulate as long as the tube, 

 wings much shorter than the keel. Bunge Mon. i. 4, ii. 2. 



WESTERN TIBET, alpine region; valley below Ilanle Rupchu, alt. 14,500 ft.; Thom- 

 son, Heyde. 



Rootstock long, woody, fusiform. Stems and thick glaucous leaves densely clothed 

 with short spreading white hairs. Leaves 1-2 in. long; leaflets crowded, 17-21, 

 oblong, i | in. long ; stipules mimite, deltoid, leaf-like, free. Peduncles 1-2 in., 

 the short pubescence growing black upwards ; pedicels very short ; bracts subulate, 

 conspicuous, persistent. Calyx \ in., densely clothed with short black pubescence. 

 Corolla purplish, half as long again as the calyx ; standard \ in. broad. Ovary silky, 

 distinctly stalked ; ovules about 20. Pod not seen. , 



8. A. Henderson!, Baker; glaucous, densely tomentose, leaflets 

 crowded, flowers 1-2 together, calyx-teeth lanceolate shorter than the tube. 



TIBET ; upper part of the Karakash valley, Dr. Henderson. 



Closely allied to the last, the thick glaucous crowded leaflets clothed with dense 

 white hairs, the whole plant in the single specimen gathered not more than a 

 couple of inches high. Leaves |- in. long; leaflets 13-17, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 folded together. Peduncles short, clothed with short white pubescence. Calyx in., 

 matted with mixed black and white hairs. Corolla seen in bud only. Pod oblong, the 

 same size and shape, and as much inflated as in A. pycnorhizus, membranous, with a few 

 short adpressed hairs and a short stalk; sutures scarcely at all intruded; seeds 

 about 20. 



* Tall perennials with almost woody stems, lax floivers, and long-stalked 

 few-seeded pods (habit of Subgen. Phaca). 



9. A. Falconer!, Bunge Mon. i. 4 ; ii. 2 ; densely pubescent, stipules 

 broad foliaceous. leaflets 13-17, pod turgid glabrescent. A. acutiflorus, Benth. 

 MSS. 



WEST TIBET, Falconer HAZAEA, Winterbottom. 



Stems flexuous, old glabrescent, young clothed with short spreading white pubes- 

 cence. Leaves 1-1^ in. long; leaflets close, glaucous, obtuse, oblanceolate-oblong, 

 | | in. long. Racemes few-flowered, long-peduncled ; pedicels shorter than the calyx, 

 downy. Calyx % in., gibbous, nearly glabrous ; teeth very short. Corolla lilac, in. ; 

 wings lanceolate, acute, as long as the keel. Pod - f in. long, narrowed to both ends, 

 4-6-seeded ; stalk twice the calyx ; inflexed suture reaching all through in the lower 

 part, not in the upper. 



