Astragalus.'] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 127 



WEST HIMAIAYAS, temperate and alpine region, alt. 5-13,000 ft. ; LAHUL, KULT;, 

 .KUNAWAR. KASHMIR, GARWHAL. 



Stems very slender, 1-2 feet long, with distant internodes, clothed when young with 

 a few minute adpressed white hairs. Leaves 1^-2 in. long; leaflets thin, oblong, 

 obtuse or emarginate, \-\ in. long, pale gi-een, with a few short adpressed white hairs; 

 stipules minute, lanceolate, spreading. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, clothed with 

 mixed black and white hairs ; pedicels ^ in. ; bracts very minute. Calyx ^-| in., 

 campanulate. Corolla |-f in., keel slightly exceeding the wings, falling short of the 

 standard. Pod f in. long, membranous, finely black-silky ; stalk exceeding 

 the calyx. A specimen gathered by Strachey and Winterbottom at the Melam 

 glacier in Kumaon has setaceous calyx-teeth, twice as long as the campanulate tube, 

 and will probably prove a new species between A. himalayanus and Maddenianus. 



35. A. IKaddenianus, Benth. MSS. ; stems elongated slender weak 

 clothed at first with short spreading 1 black and white hairs, leaflets 19-21, calyx 

 clothed with minute adpressed black and white hairs, teeth setaceous as long as 

 the tube, pod stalked unilocular 3-4-seeded. 



KTTMAON ; temperate region, alt. 10-11,000 ft., Madden, Edgeworth. 



General habit exactly as in A. himalayanus, but the young branches densely beset 

 with short spreading black and white bristly hairs. Leaves l|-2 in. long ; leaflets 

 oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, densely clothed at first on both sides with adpressed 

 silvery hairs ; stipules minute, spreading. Heads few-flowered ; peduncle tr 1 in., 

 clothed like the branches ; bracts linear, exceeding the short black pedicels." Calyx 

 - 1 in. Corolla \ in. ; wings much shorter than standard and keel. Pod f in. 

 long, membranous, densely white-silky, narrowed to both ends; stalk exceeding 

 the calyx. 



** Heads peduncled. Flowers yellow. 



36. A. cashmirensis, Bunge Mon. L 30 ; ii. 34 ; stems elongated shaggy 

 with, long hairs, leaflets 29-33, calyx thinly clothed with long hairs, corolla 

 much exserted, pod sessile finely pubescent bilocular G-8-seeded. 



KASHMIR, temperate region, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Jacquemont, Falconer. 



Stems stout, erect or ascending, under a foot high. Leaves distinctly petioled, 3-4 

 inches long ; leaflets close, oblong, obtuse or acute, |~i in. long, dull green, clothed 

 densely at first with long fine hairs ; stipules ^ in. long, free, lanceolate, membranous, 

 striated. Heads dense, round; peduncle 1-3 in.; pedicel ^-g- in., shaggy; bracts 

 linear, plumose, persistent, $-| in. long. Calyx g- in. ; teeth linear, snorter than 

 the tube. Corolla f in. ; standard exceeding the wings and keel. Pod ^ in. long, 

 firm in texture, linear-oblong, straight, hollowed down the keel, narrowed into a long 

 '"beak. 



VAR. 1. Falconeri, Baker; taller, much less shaggy, stipules narrower Mb .inch 

 long, leaflets 31-34 broad-oblong obtuse. Kashmir, Falconer. 



37. A. fioridus, Benth. MSS. ; stems elongated clothed with minute 

 Tat her spreading black hairs, leaflets 25-31, calyx densely clothed with ad- 

 pressed "black hairs, pod long-stalked unilocular 4-5-seeded. " Bunge Mon. i. 24 ; 

 .ii. 28.' 



SIKKIM, alpine region ; Tungu, alt. 13,000 ft., Hook.fil. 



Stems moderately stout, erect, ^-1 ft. Leaves 1| 3 in. ; leaflets linear-oblong, 



glaucous, subacute, f-|- in., thinly clothed with adpressed silvery bristles ; stipules 

 ,te or deltoid, free, 1-i in. Heads round or oblong, 12-30-flowered, the lower 



lanceolate or 



linear,, minute. Calyx under \ in. ; teeth short, linear. Corolla bright yellow, twice 

 the calyx ; petals nearly equal. Pod linear-oblong, ^ in. long, narrowed to both ends, 

 densely black-silky ; stalk as long as the calyx-tube. 



