128 Leguminosce Caragana. 



Linear, ultimately terete or turgid. About fifteen species, all 

 Asiatic. Karagan is the name G. arborescens bears amongst 

 the Mogul Tartars. The species are very hardy. 



1. G. arborescens. A shrub or small tree. Leaves com- 

 posed of 8 to 10 oblong mucronate leaflets ; common petiole 

 deciduous, stipules scarcely spinescent. Flowers pale or bright 

 yellow according to the variety, appearing in early Spring. A 

 very desirable shrub on account of its extreme hardines: 

 G. sophorcefolia is a form of this with smaller membranou^ 

 leaves. A native of Siberia. 



2. G. Altdgana, syn. (7. microphylla. Of smaller stature 

 than the foregoing, with smaller more numerous leaflets 

 clothed with appressed hairs, and thorny stipules. The flowers, 

 rather larger, are usually solitary. Also from Siberia, and 

 flowering in Spring. 



3. G. Chamlagu. A dwarf spreading shrub. Leaflets 

 glabrous, mucronulate, in two distant pairs, the upper larger ; 

 stipules mostly spinescent. Flowers solitary, dirty yellow, 

 ultimately assuming a reddish tinge, appearing in June. 

 A native of North China, where it bears the specific name. 



4. (7. frutescens. Near the last, but of more ancient culti- 

 vation. It is of erect habit, with two pairs of contiguous 

 equal leaflets. Flowers solitary, yellow, on jointed peduncles. 

 There are varieties under the names angustifblia^ latifdlia y 

 &c., in cultivation. A native of Siberia, flowering in May. 



There is another group of species in which the common 

 petiole is persistent and thorny. G. triflbra and G. pygmcea 

 are the species usually seen. The former has 6 or more 

 pairs of leaflets and 2 or 3 flowers on a common peduncle ; and 

 the latter solitary flowers and 2 pairs of leaflets. 



21. CALOPHACA. 



Shrubs or herbs. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets quite 

 entire. Flowers rather large, yellow or violet, axillary, soli- 

 tary, sub-umbellate or racemose. Standard petal obovate or 

 orbiculate, keel petals about equalling the wings. Upper 

 stamen free. Pod linear or oblong, often acute. About seven 

 species, all Asiatic. The name is a compound f /caXoy, beau- 

 tiful, and <a?5, a lentil. 



1. (7. Wolgdrica. A dwarf branching shrub clothed with 

 glandular hairs. Leaves pinnate, often crowded ; leaflets 



