Astragahes.'] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 121 



10. A. adesmieefolius, Benth. MSS.; glabrous, stipules large foliace- 

 ous, leaflets very numerous, pod flat glabrous. Bunge Mon, i. 4 ; ii. 2. Phaca 

 Hoffineisteri, Klotzsch Reise Pr. Wald. Bot. 159, t. 2. 



West Tibetan Himalayas, alt. 8-12,000 ft, ; DRAS, ZANSKAR, PITI, LADAK, 

 NUBRA. 



Branches zigzag, glabrous, terete, woody, reaching several feet in height. Leaves 26 

 in. long; leaflets 25-41, green, obovate, emarginate, rather fleshy, lower |-| in. long, 

 upper growing gradually smaller ; stipules persistent, obliquely cordate-ovate. Ra- 

 cemes very lax, -1 ft. ; pedicels ver,y short ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx ^ in., ob- 

 lique, tubuloso-campanulnte, glabrous ; teeth minute, deltoid. Corolla lilac, -| in., the 

 petals subequal in length ; limb of wing lanceolate, acute. Pod oblong, f-^ in., nar- 

 rowed to both ends, 4-8 -seeded ; lower suture hardly at all inflexed ; stalk more than 

 twice the calyx. 



11. A. trichocarpus, Grcih. in Watt. Cat. 5926 ; obscurely silky, sti- 

 pules minute, leaflets very numerous, pod turgid finely downy. Bunge Mon. 

 i. 4 ; ii. 2. A. sesbanioides, Benth. in Royle III. 199 ; Bunge loo. cit. 



Central Himalayas, temperate region, alt. 5-8000 ft. ; SIMLA, GURWHAL, KTJMAON. 



Erect, suffruticose, reaching several feet high, the branches straight, virgate, much 

 furrowed. Leaves subsessile, 2-4 in ; leaflets 31-41, oblong, | f in. long, subobtuse, 

 pale green, clothed with minute silvery hairs. Racemes very copious, distinctly pe- 

 duncled, erecto-patent, 2-4 in. long, with very numerous flowers ; pedicels short, 

 cernuous, clothed with dense short mixed black and white hairs ; bracts linear, minute. 

 Calyx glabrous, campanulate, oblique, ^ in. ; teeth deltoid. Corolla lilac, 4-5 times 

 the calyx ; limb of standard round ; wings lanceolate, shorter than the keel. Pod f-j^ 

 in. long, oblong, completely 2-celled, 4-6-seeded ; stalk much exceeding the calyx. 



SFBGEN. 3. Trimenieeus, Bunge. Annual weeds with basifixed hairs, 

 small yellow flowers in usually dense beads, and glabrous stigmas. 



12. A. prolixus, Sieber PL sEgypt. Exsic. ; beads dense peduncled, leaflets 

 11-17 oblong obtuse, pod short straight linear-oblong C-8-seeded nearly 

 bilocular. Bunge Mon. i. 9; ii. 6; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. '223. A. arabicus, 

 Ehrhenb. ; Bunge Mon. loc. cit. ; Boiss. loc. cit. Phaca Vogelii, Webb in Hook. 

 Nigr. Fl. 123, t. 8. 



Plains of SCINDE and PUNJAB. DISTRIB. Cape Verde islands ; through Egypt to 

 Arabia. 



Stems very slender, 5! ft., densely clothed upwards with adpressed white hairs. 

 Leaves distinctly petioled, -1^ iii. long ; leaflets distant, glaucous, |-^- in., clothed with, 

 fine adpressed white hairs; stipules minute, lanceolate, free. Heads 6-12-flowered ; 

 peduncles rarely as long as the leaves. Calyx under ^ in., densely matted ; teeth 

 linear-setaceous, nearly as long as the tube. Corolla little exserted. Pod sessile, 

 turgid, | in. long, densely pubescent. 



13. A. Aitchisoni, Bakery beads very lax sbortpeduncled, leaflets ob- 

 long emarginate, pod very long and slender straight or slightly recurved 

 slightly torulose unilocular'l5-20-seeded. 



PUNJAB, Salt range, Aitchison. 



Stem suberect, ft., slender, thinly white-canescent. Leaves distinctly petioled, 

 11-2:} in. long; leaflets distant. 17-25, alternate, in. long, grey-green, thinly 

 coated with adpressed short white hairs ; stipules minute, deltoid. Racemes 4-6- 

 flowered ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute. Calyx in. campanulate, thinly 

 white-silky ; teeth linear or lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube. Corolla twice 

 the calyx, white with a purple tip ; standard longer than the wings and keel. Pod 

 l in. long, under ^ in. thick, thinly white-canescent at first ; dissepiment not at all 

 incurved ; seeds distant, very small. 



