LEGUMINOS^E. 



473 



alt. 3. p. 309.) root creeping ; stems herbaceous, erect, clothed 

 with white tomentum; stipulas ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, 

 free, glabrous inside ; leaves with 7-10 pairs of nearly orbicular, 

 mucronate leaflets ; peduncles about equal in length to the 

 leaves ; calyxes woolly, at length bladdery ; legumes inflated, 

 ovate, ending in a long reflexed acumen, glabrous, 2-cellcd, 

 much larger than the calyx. Tf . H. Native of Altaia, in sand 

 at the river Irtysch. Corolla purplish-violet. To follow A. 

 megalanthus, D. C. p. 259. no. 80. of the present volume. 

 Very-white Milk-vetch. Fl. June. PI. 1 foot. 



7. Annulares, p. 259. 



54 ASTRA'GALUS ORBICULA'TUS (Led. fl. ross. alt. t. 290. fl. alt. 

 3. p. 311.) plant villous and procumbent, or erectish; leaves 

 with 6-1 1 pairs of nearly orbicular mucronate leaflets ; stipulas 

 ovate, acute ; racemes usually 3-flowercd, pedunculate ; pedun- 

 cles one-half the length of the leaves ; bracteas and teeth of calyx 

 lanceolate-linear ; ovary oblong, densely clothed with pili, on a 

 glabrous stipe. If. . H. Native of Altaia, in the Soongarian 

 desert. Corolla white. To follow A. striatellus, Bieb. p. 200. 

 no. 86. of the present volume. 



Orfa'cWar-leafletted Milk-vetch. Fl. May, June. PI. proc. 



| 8. Synochreali, p. 261. 



55 ASTRA'GALUS RARiFL6nus (Led. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 88. fl. 

 alt. 3. p. 313.) plant ascending, suffruticose, clothed with ad- 

 pressed hoary pili ; leaves with 5-11 oblong-linear leaflets ; pe- 

 duncles much longer than the leaves ; flowers remote, on short 

 pedicels, secund ; legumes subulate, triquetrous, a little arched, 

 horizontal, clothed with white villi, 3 or 4 times longer than the 

 calyx. If. H. Native of Altaia, in the Soongarian desert, in 

 dry salt fields about the mountains of Tschingistan. Corolla 

 cream-coloured. To follow A.microphyllus, Lin. p. 26I.no. 108. 



Scarce-Jloniered Milk-Vetch. Fl. July, Aug. PI. ascending. 



56 ASTRA'GALUS OREA'DES (Meyer, verz. pfl. p. 141.) smooth- 

 ish ; stems diffuse ; stipulas all concrete and sheath-formed ; 

 leaflets 8-12 pairs, all oblong-elliptic, rather retuse ; peduncles 

 shorter than the leaves ; legumes crowded, erectish, inflated, 

 nearly globose, mucronate, and pilose. If. . H. Native of Per- 

 sia, on mount Kasbek, at the height of 3600 or 4200 feet. 

 Nearly allied to A.microphyllus, Lin. p. 261. no. 108. 



Oread.es Milk-vetch. PI. diffuse. 



57 ASTRA'GALUS DEPAUPERA'TUS (Led. fl. ross. atl. 3. p. 314.) 

 plant erectish, sufFruticose, rather silky; leaflets 5-9, oblong, 

 acute at both ends ; peduncles exceeding the leaves ; flowers 

 few, in umbellate heads ; legumes oblong, a little arched, com- 

 pressed, granular, villous, but at length almost glabrous, 2-celled. 

 % . H. Native of Altaia, in dry salt plains, near Loktewsk. 

 Corolla- cream-coloured. To follow A. microphyllus, Lin. p. 

 261. no. 108. of the present volume. 



Depauperated Milk-vetch. Fl. Aug. PI. ^ to 1 foot. 



9. Ciceroidei, p. 262. 



58 ASTRA'GALUS RYTIDOCA'RPUS (Led. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 293. 

 fl. alt. 3. p. 315.) plant ascending, rather hoary; stipulas ovate, 

 mucronate or acuminated ; leaves with 4 pairs of oblong-linear 

 leaflets ; peduncles about equal in length to the leaves ; spikes 

 capitate, few-flowered ; legumes short, nearly globose, didy- 

 mous, sessile, wrinkled, transversely 2-celled, rather villous, 

 apiculated by the oblique style. Tf . H. Native of Altaia, in 

 islands in the river Tschuja. To follow A. glycyphijllus, Lin. 

 p. 262. no. 116. of the present volume. 



Rugged-fruited Milk-vetch. Fl. June. PI. ascending. 



10. Galegiformes, p. 263. 



59 ASTRA'GALUS CHLORO'STACHYS (Lindl. hort. trans, vol. 7. 



VOL. II. 



p. 249. and p. 263. no. 134. of the present volume) stems erect, 

 pubescent ; stipulas distinct, separate from the petioles ; leaves 

 with 1 1-12 pairs of oblong pubescent leaflets ; racemes pedun- 

 culate, many-flowered, longer than the leaves ; legumes inflated, 

 a little arched ; racemes axillary at the tops of the shoots. If. . H. 

 Native of Nipaul. Flowers greenish yellow. 



Green-spiked Milk-vetch. Fl. Sept. Oct. Clt. 1823. PI. 

 2 to 4 feet. 



60 ASTRA'GALUS PODOCA'RPUS (Meyer, verz. pfl. p. 142.) 

 plant clothed with adpressed, canescent down ; stems branched, 

 diffuse, or erect ; stipulas free, lanceolate ; leaflets 3-6 pairs, 

 elongated, nearly linear, acute ; peduncles very long ; spikes 

 dense-flowered, oblong ; legumes stipitate, erect, oblong, clothed 

 with pili, longer than the calyx. If. H. Native of Persia, 

 near Swant, on the mountains of Talusch, at the height of 2000 

 feet. Flowers yellowish. To follow A. galegiformis, Lin. 

 p. 263. no. 137. of the present volume. 



Foot-fruited Milk-vetch. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



13. Tragacanthee,p. 265. 



61 ASTRA'GALUS SIRI'NICUS (Tenore, fl. neap. prod. 5. ex. 

 Schlecht.Linnsea. 5. p. 102.) shrubby; petioles spinescent ; leaves 

 with 14 pairs of elliptic-oblong bluntish leaflets, beset with ad- 

 pressed pili on both surfaces ; peduncles rather shorter than the 

 leaves, from 2-10, disposed in a racemose spike ; calyx clothed 

 with black and white hairs ; the teeth setaceous : corolla yellow, 

 3-times the length of the calyx ; bracteas linear, setaceous, 3- 

 times the length of the pedicels ; legumes villous. TJ. . H. Na- 

 tive of Naples, on Mount Sirini, near Lagonegro in rocky mea- 

 dows. This species differs from A. retusus, Willd. p. 267. no. 

 185. of the present volume, in the flowers being disposed in 

 racemose spikes, not capitate, in the setaceous teeth of the calyx, 

 and in the linear bracteas. It differs from A. Massiliensis, in 

 the calycine teeth being subulate, not obtuse, and obliquely trun- 

 cate, in the bracteas being longer than the pedicels, and in the 

 racemose flowers. 



Sirini Goat-thorn. Shrub j to 1 foot. 



15. Anthijlloldci, p. 268. 



62 ASTRA'GALUS ELLIPSOIDES (Led. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 297. fl. 

 alt. 3. p. 319.) nearly stemless and silky white; leaflets 11-23, 

 broad-elliptic, acute at both ends ; stipulas ovate, acuminated, 

 silky outside ; peduncles a little shorter than the leaves ; spikes 

 oblong or globose ; calyxes inflated, elliptic, clothed with white 

 pili ; legumes somewhat triquetrous, many-seeded, acute, very 

 villous, shorter than the calyx. I/ . H. Native of Altaia. 

 Corolla sulphur-coloured. To follow A, calycmus, Bieb. p. 

 268. no. 197. of the present volume. 



Var. a, elongatus (Led. 1. c.) caulescent; leaflets 11-19, re- 

 mote; spikes oblong-cylindrical; calyx clothed with spreading 

 pili. ~lf. . H. Native on the mountains of Arkaul and Dolen- 

 kara. 



Var. /3, intermedius (Led. 1. c.) almost stemless ; leaflets 1 1- 

 23, large, crowded ; spikes oblong, short ; calyx clothed with 

 adpressed pili. 3f . H. Native on exposed hills, near Ustka- 

 menogorsk. 



Var. y, abbreviatus (Led. 1. c.) smaller, stemless; leaflets 11- 

 13; spikes subglobose, few-flowered ; calyx clothed with spread- 

 ing pili. If. H. Native of dry fields about the mountains of 

 Tschingistan and Dschigilen. 



Ellipsoid-podded Milk-vetch. Fl. May. PL dwarf. 



63 ASTRA'GALUS SABULETORUM (Led. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 298. 

 fl. alt. 3. p. 321.) nearly stemless, silky white; leaflets 11-19, 

 oblong, acute at both ends ; stipulas ovate, acuminated, silky ; 

 peduncles about equal in length to the leaves ; spikes ovate- 

 globose ; calyxes inflated, ovate, clothed with white adpressed 



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