Sophora.] 



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Flowers in lax axillary racemes. Pods 4-6-seeded, moniliform, the seed 

 parts with 4 membranous wings, the seedless stalks between often J in. 

 long. Seeds brown, hard, shining. 



Trans- Indus. Salt range. N.W. Himalaya as far as Kamaon, ascending to 

 6000 ft. Fl. March, Apr. 



2. S. Griffithii, Stocks in Hook. Journal of Botany, iv. (1852) p. 147. Syn. 

 Keyserlingia Griffithii, Boissier Fl. Orient, ii. 630 is a grey-silky undershrub, 

 with winged pods ; common in Beluchistan (3000-6000 ft.), also found in Af- 

 ghanistan. 3. S. Moorcroftiana, Benth., of North-West Tibet (10,000-12,000 

 ft.), is armed with spinescent stipules and branchlets, and has unwinged pods. 



It. S. alopecuroides, Linn. syn. Goebelia alopecuroides, Boissier Fl. Orient, ii. 

 >28 is a large perennial herb with unwinged pods, of West Tibet (10,000- 

 2,000 ft.) and Western Asia. 

 3. CARAGANA, Lam. 

 Low spinescent shrubs, with abruptly pinnate leaves. Calyx campanu- 

 ate, placed obliquely on its pedicel. Petals long-unguiculate, claws as 

 long, or nearly as long, as calyx ; standard broad, with reflexed edges ; 

 keel obtuse, as long as wings and standard. Stamens diadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary linear, sessile. Style filiform, incurved, glab- 

 rous ; stigma terminal, minute. Pod linear, valves convex, continuous, 

 not torulose. 



Leaflets 3-7 pair, distant ; pods hairy inside. 

 Flowers in umbels of 2-3, on long peduncles . . . 1. C. brevispina. 



Flowers solitary. 

 Leaf-bearing branchlets, short, tubercular, in the axils of 



scariose bracts and stipules 2. C. Gerardiana. 



Leaf-bearing branchlets, short, tubercular, in the axils of 



trifid spines, the middle spine longer . . . . 3. C. ulicina. 

 Leaflets 2 pair, approximate ; pods glabrous inside . . 4. C. pygmcea. 



1. C. brevispina, Eoyle 111. 198. Vern. Sat-bargi, Jhelam; Drob, 

 hurkundu, Kashmir. 



An erect shrub, with flexuose branches. Leaves generally fasciculate, 

 on short tuberculate branchlets, rarely (on vigorous shoots) distant, with 

 the internodes elongated. Leaf-bearing branchlets in the axils of stout 

 spinescent petioles, 1-2 in. long, with or without leaflets. Stipules scari- 

 ous, the outer frequently spinescent. Leaflets 5-7 pair, elliptic, \ in. long, 

 pubescent, with soft adpressed hairs. Flowers yellow, in umbels of 3-5.; 

 peduncles 2-3 in. long. Calyx, bracts, peduncles, and petioles clothed 

 with soft tawny pubescence. Calyx-teeth shorter than tube. Pods 2-2J 

 in. long, pubescent or glabrate outside, villous inside. 



Outer and inner ranges of the N.W. Himalaya, 5000-9000 ft. ; from the 

 Indus to the Ganges, also in Waziristan. Fl. June- Aug. 



2. C. Gerardiana, Royle 111. t. 34, fig. 1. Syn. C. spinosissima, Benth.; 

 Jacq. Yoy. Bot. t. 43. 



A diffuse spinescent tomentose shrub. Leaf-bearing branchlets short, 

 closely approximate at the ends of branches. Stipules scarious, villous, 

 not spinescent. All petioles spinescent, the lower part of the leaf-bear- 



