Plants of the Punjab. 



257 



Herbs. Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Leaflets many. 



and keel, petals, stamens and style as those of the last 

 species ; pod 1 in., expanded, smooth, oblong, stalked, 

 narrowed to both ends, 6-8-seeded. 



Flowers, in heads, in the next seven species of Astragalus, 



and two of oxytropis. 



Astragalus 

 prolixus, 



JjEGUMINOS^. 



F. B. Lii. 121. 

 The Plains. 

 Lahore. 



small, annual weed, clothed densely with flat-lying 

 white hairs, very slender ; leaves |-1^ in., distinctly 

 stalked, stipules free, minute, lanceolate, leaflets 11-17, 

 oblong, blunt, |-i in., covered with the white hairs ; 

 flowers -j-\j- in., yellow, 6-12 together in heads on stalks 

 a little shorter than the leaves, calyx less than -jV in., 

 densely matted, teeth 5, linear-bristle-like, nearly equal to 

 the calyx tube, petals, stamens and style as above ; pod 

 ^-f in., sessile, expanded, densely velvety, straight, linear- 

 oblong, 6-8-seeded. 



Astragalus 

 Aitchisoni, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 121. 

 Salt Eange 

 (Aitchison). 

 Pindigheb. 

 Rawalpindi District 

 (Douie). 



small, annual weed, slender, thinly covered with 



distinctly stalked, stipules 



white hairs ; leaves l|-2^ in., 



triangular, minute, leaflets 17-25, ^ in., alternate, wide 

 apart, grey 



flowers i in. 



a few short horizontal white hairs ; 

 white with a purple tip, in a loose head 



green. 



of 4-6 flowers on a short stalk, bracts minute, calyx 

 ^ in., bell-shaped, thinly white silky, teeth 5, linear or 

 lanceolate, petals 5, standard longer than the wings and keel, 

 stamens and stjde as those in the last species ; pod 1| in., 

 slender, straight or slightly curved, slightly clothed with 

 white hairs, 15-20-seeded, seeds very small. 



Astragalus 

 contortuplicatus, 



Leguminos;e. 

 F. B. I. ii. 122. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Boissier). 



small, annual weed, covered with short, soft, spreading 

 white hairs ; leaves 3-4 in., distinctly stalked, stipules 

 small, free, lanceolate, leaflets 13-17, oblong-lanceolate with 

 a broad and notched tip, j-| in., wide apart, greenish, 

 soft scattered hairs on both sides ; flowers 4 in., yellow, in 

 dense many- flowered heads on stalks, with few scattered 

 soft hairs, much shorter than the leaves, calyx | in., with 

 a few scattered soft hairs, teeth 5, bristle-like, feathered, 

 petals 5, projecting a little from the calyx, wings lance- 

 olate, short-pointed, shorter than the standard and keel, 

 stamens and style like those in the last species ; pod | in., 

 cylindrical, much recurved, sausage-shaped, folded length- 

 wise, wrinkled, 20-30-seeded. 



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