1 34 L. LEGUMINOS^;. ( J. G. Baker.) [Astragalus. 



any leaflet at the end, large yellow flowers in the axils of the leaves without 

 any peduncles, gibbous calyces and naked stigmas. Included in Fischer's mono- 

 graph in Tragacantha, from which they are separated by their pedicelled gibbous 

 calyx. 



* Leaflets glabrescent or obscurely silky. 



61. A. poly acanthus, Royle III. 199, non Wall. Cat. 5934; spines 

 short, stipules deltoid or lanceolate-deltoid, leaflets 9-13, flowers sessile in the 

 axils of the leaves usually geminate, corolla twice as long as the calyx. A. 

 Daltoniamis, Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 69. A. psilocentrus, Fisch. ; Bunge Man. 

 i. 44 ; ii. 70. A. scariosus, Benth. MSS. ; Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 71. A. Grah- 

 amianus, Royle III 199, t. 36, fig. 2 ; Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 68. A. Jacque- 

 montii, Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 68. 



Common in the north-west, ascending from the plains of the PTJNJAB to 12,000 ft., 

 reaching east to KTJMAON and GHARWAL. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



A copiously-branched undershrub, with short branchlets armed with the crowded 

 ascending old leaf-rachises, which are not more than 1^-2 in. long. Leaflets oblong, 

 glabrescent or persistently slightly silky, pale glaucous green, rather thick in texture, 

 often complicate, ^-~ in. long. Pedicels silky, ^ |- in. Calyx tubular, ^ in. long, 

 glabrescent or thinly silky ; mouth oblique; teeth short, linear. Corolla 1-1^ in. 

 long ; wings shorter than the standard, and keel than the wings. Pod \ in. long, 

 dimidiate-oblong, turgid, sessile, bilocular, 15-20-seeded. 



'62. A. cicerifolius, Royle ; Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 70 ; spines elongated, 

 leaflets 31-41, stipules lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, flowers in peduncled 

 heads, corolla not twice as long as the calyx. A. oplites, Benth. MSS. A. 

 tenuispinus, Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 70. A. microphyllus, Jacquem. MSS. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine region, alt. 10-17,000 ft. ; NUBRA, LADAK, 

 KASHMIR, GARWHAL, KTJNAWAR, &c. 



An undershrub, densely armed with the erecto-patent rigid stramineous leaf- 

 rachises, which are 3^ ft. long. Leaflets finely silky at first, mostly glabrescent 

 when mature, pale green, thick in texture, obtuse, sometimes emarginate, ascending, 

 caducous, 5 | in. long, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong. Flowers usually 34 together 

 on short peduncles from the axils of the leaves ; pedicels ^- in. ; bracts linear or 

 setaceous, exceeding the pedicels. Calyx % f in., with a few adpressed black or 

 brownish silky hairs ; teeth setaceous, a third as long as the tube. Proportion of the 

 petals as in the last. Pod | | in. long, oblong, turgid, bilocular, densely silky, narrowed 

 to the point, 15-20-seeded. 



* Leaflets persistently densely silky. 



63. A. multiceps, Wall. Cat. 5937; main stems not produced, branchlets 

 with densely crowded nodes, flowers 1-2 together in leaf-axils usually not 

 peduncled, corolla twice as long as the calyx. Bunge Mon. i. 44, ii. 69. 



West Himalayas, temperate zone, alt. 10-12,000 ft.; SIMLA, KUMAON, GARWHAI,. 



Tufts densely congested, armed with the very crowded ascending old leaf-rachises, 

 which are 1^-3 in. long. Stipules \ in., lanceolate, adnate only at the very base ; 

 leaflets? 21-31, mostly crowded, obovate-oblong, ^-i in. long, thick in texture, 

 dull green, clothed with grey silky hairs. Pedicels ~-^ in. ; bracts linear, exceeding 

 the pedicels. Calyx f in., thinly silky ; teeth linear-setaceous, half as long as the 

 tube. Corolla f in. ; standard exceeding wings and keel. Pod sessile, oblong, turgid, 

 bilocular, 12-14-seeded, clothed with fine grey silky hairs. 



64. A . zanskarensis, Benth. MSS. ; main stems short, branchlets 



