138 L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [Oxytropis. 



silky 13-25 oblong or lanceolate-oblong, heads finally sublax, corolla half 

 as long again as the calyx, pods ascending. O. floribunda, Benth. in Royle III. 

 198. Astragalus vesiculosus, Jacquem. MSS. 



West Himalayas, alpine region, alt. 10-1 2,000 ft. ; LAHTTL, ZANSKAR, KUNAWAR, &c. 



Tufts \-l ft. high, crowded at the top of a woody rootstock. Leaves long-petioled, 

 2-3 in. long ; leaflets \^ in. long, moderately thick, pale green, densely clothed on 

 both sides with persistent adpressed white silky hairs ; stipules lanceolate or deltoid- 

 cuspidate, densely silky. Peduncles usually much overtopping the leaves ; heads 

 finally 2-3 in. long; pedicels very short; bracts minute, linear. Calyx \-% in long, 

 densely clothed with mixed black and white silky hairs. Pod ^ f in. long, oblong- 

 cylindrical, unilocular, distinctly stalked, 6-8-seeded. 



3. O. Thomson!, Benth. MSS. ; stemless, tall, leaflets lanceolate 

 densely white-silky 13-51, heads finally sublax, corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx, pods ascending. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine region, alt. 7-15,000 ft. ; LAHTJL, LADAK, 

 KASHMIR. 



General habit of 0. mollis. Leaves long-petioled, 4-6 in. long; leaflets grey -green, 

 narrower in proportion, |-1 in. long, not so thick nor densely silky as in the last ; stipules 

 lanceolate, in. long. Racemes finally 3-4 in. long ; peduncles equalling or over- 

 topping the leaves; pedicels ^j 72 i n - '> bracts linear, small. Calyx \ | in., densely 

 clothed with mixed black and white silky hairs ; teeth plumose, the lower nearly as 

 long as the tube. Pod oblong-cylindrical, unilocular, 4-6-seeded, with a few minute 

 adpressed white hairs ; stalk as long as the calyx-tube. 



: * Flowers mostly yellow, rarely varying to purple. 



4. O. densa, Benth. MSS. ; acaulescent, very dwarf, leaflets 15-17 

 minute densely-silky, heads few-flowered short-peduncled, pod ovate-cylindrical 

 bilocular. 



WEST TIBET, alpine region, alt. 16-1 7,000 ft., Thomson, Strachey. 



Tufts densely csespitose from a woody root, the whole plant not more than 1-1^ in. 

 above the surface. Leaves under | in. long ; leaflets ^ in. long, close, oblong, thickly 

 matted with persistent grey-silky~hairs ; stipules deltoid, membranous, 1^-li in., con- 

 nate downwards. Heads 3-6-fiowered ; peduncles densely silky, - in. ; pedicels 

 very short. Bracts small, linear. Calyx % in., densely silky ; tube campanulate ; 

 teeth linear, shorter than the tube. Corolla half as long again as the calyx. Pod 

 sessile, finely silky, narrowed gradually from the middle to the point, turgid, 5-6- 



5. O. Strachey an a, Benth. MSS. ; stemless, very dwarf, leaflets 5-7 

 densely silky, heads few-flowered short-peduncled, pod round-oblong turgid 

 unilocular. 



WEST TIBET, alpine region ; Darma Yankti, alt. 15,500 ft., Strachey $ Winter- 

 bottom. 



Whole plant not above a couple of inches above the surface. Stipules deltoid, 

 membranous, minute ; leaflets thick, complicate, oblong, | in. long, densely matted 

 with grey-brown silky hairs. Heads short-peduncled, 2-3-flowered ; bracts minute ; 

 pedicels very short. Calyx f in. long, tubular, densely clothed with ascending grey 

 silky hairs ; teeth linear. 3 \ tube. Corolla half as long again as the calyx. Pod -^ in. 

 long, sessile, 3-4-seeded, densely clothed with long persistent pale brown silky hairs. 



6. O. tatarica, Jacquem. MSS. ; stemless, leaflets small 13-21 densely 

 matted with white silky hairs, heads dense long-peduncled, bracts minute, pod 

 sessile inflated unilocular round -oblong. 



