128 L. LEGUMINOSJ:. (J. G. Baker.) [Astragalus. 



38. A. leucocephalus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5923 ; stems short slender 

 densely clothed with loose white hairs, leaflets 21-31, calyx shaggy with 

 white hairs, corolla little exserted, pod minute oblong sessile unilocular 3-4- 

 seeded. Benth. in Royle III. 198, t. 32, fig. 2 ; Bunge Mon. i. 48 ; ii. 76 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, ii. 241. 



West Himalayas, temperate and tropical zone, alt. 1-7,000 ft. ; PUNJAB, KASHMIR, 

 SIMLA, GURWHAL, KUMAON. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



Stems densely coespitose, ascending, i-| ft., densely persistently tonientose. Leaves 

 1-3 in. long ; leaflets close, oblong, glaucous, densely argenteo-canescent, thick, obtuse or 

 subacute, -* in. long ; stipules small, foliaceous, connate below the middle. Heads 

 small, very dense, oblong ; peduncles 2-6 in., densely white-tomentose ; bracts lanceo- 

 late, exceeding the buds. Calyx \ in. long, subsessile, very shaggy; teeth setaceous, 

 as long as the tube. Corolla pale yellow, \ in. ; keel rather shorter than the standard 

 and wings. Pod in. long, included in the calyx, finely downy. 



*** Heads few-flowered, sessile or nearly so, in the axils of the leaves of an 

 elongated stem ; flowers yellow. 



39. A. IHunroi, Benth. MSS. ; Bunge Mon. i. 30 ; ii. 35. 



Tibet Himalayas, alpine region; PITI, LAHUL, LADAK. DISTRIB. Kashgar, 

 Bellew. 



Rhizome stout, long, woody, fusiform. Stems caespitose, stout, erect, ^1 ft., shaggy 

 throughout with dense spreading white hairs. Leaves 1^-2 in. long; leaflets 19-21- 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, f-1 in. long, thinly clothed with loose white hairs ; stipules 

 ^ in., free, linear, or lanceolate. Calyx short-pedicelled, ^~ | in., thinly pubescent ; teeth 

 linear-setaceous, nearly as long as the tube. Corolla % | in., pale yellow ; petals sub- 

 equal. Pod oblong, sessile, membranous, much inflated, an inch long, nearly bilocular, 

 10-12-seeded. 



STJBGEN. 6. Fhaca.* Herbaceous perennials or undershrubs with 

 flowers in elongated racemes, basi-fixed hairs and naked stigmas. 



* Stipules small. 



40. A. macropterus, DC. Prodr. ii. 283; shrubby, leaflets 13-17 ofc- 

 lanceolate, calyx-teeth minute, corolla lilac, pod oblong sessile turgid bilocular 

 5-6-seeded. Bunge Mon. i. 21 ; ii. 22. A. vicioides, Led. Fl. Alt. 3, 301, t. 286. 

 A. distans, Benth. MSS. A. longipes, Kar. and Kir. ; Led. Fl. Ross. i. 618. A. 

 puberulus, K. and K. Enum. PL Alt. No. 240. 



Tibetan Himalayas, alpine region, alt. 9-12,000 ft. ; LADAK, ZANSXAR, &c., Thom- 

 son. DISTRIB. Western and Central Siberia. 



An erect undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, with numerous erecto-patent stiff virgate glabrous 

 branches. Leaves 2-3 in. long; leaflets distant, thick, pale green, glabrescent, ^-| in. 

 long ; stipules minute, lanceolate, free, spreading, caducous. Racemes very lax, |~1 ft. 

 long ; peduncles stiff, ascending, -1 ft. ; pedicels ~ in. ; bracts very minute. Calyx 

 campanulate, ~ in. long, with a few minute adpressed black hairs ; teeth deltoid- 

 cuspidate. Corolla | in. ; keel much shorter than the wings and standard. Pod 

 \-^ in. long, glabrous, turgid, narrowed to a beak, nearly straight. 



41. A. chlorostacliys, Lindl. in Trans. Hort. Soc. vii. 249; shrubby, 

 leaflets 13-17 oblong, calyx-teeth very short, bracts lanceolate, corolla pale green 

 tinged with lilac, pod oblong turgid stalked bilocular 6-10-seeded. Bunge Mon. 

 i. 27 ; ii. 32. A. Govanianus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5925. A. himalensis, Jao 

 quern. MSS. 



West Himalayas, alpine and temperate region, alt. 5-14,000 ft.; PANGI, LAKUL, 

 KASHMIR, SIMLA, KUMAON, GURWHAL. 



* Name used here in a much more restricted sense than in Bunge's Monograph. 



