PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



1039 



Herbs, erect, with Altjernate Stipulate CoBiPOtJifD Leaves. 

 Leaflets Many, 



Astragalus ciliolatus, 



Legtjminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 129. 

 Himalaya, 6-9,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Petals Dissimilar. 



medium size, perennial, stems hollow, smooth ; 

 leaves 6-9 in., midrib ending in a point or leaflet; 

 leaflets 17-19, ^-1^ in., oblong, blunt, green, smooth,, 

 stipules \-^ in., lanceolate or triangular, free per- 

 sistent; flowers f in., yellow tinged with lilac, crowd- 

 ed nearly all on one side of long-stalked racemes,, 

 bracts linear, shorter than the buds, calyx f in.^ 

 tubular, oblique, teeth 5, bristle-like, feathered, 

 petals 5, keel shorter than the standard and wing 

 petals, broad, abruptly upcurved, stamens and style- 

 like those of the last species ; pod 1 in., oblong, ex- 

 panded, narrowed into a beak, covered with fine 

 short spreading black hairs, stalk f in., seeds 8-20. 



medium size, perennial, stout, smooth ; leaves- 

 4-6 in. long, stipviles f-J in. long, ovate or lanceo- 

 late, sharp-pointed or blunt, free, persistent, leaf- 

 lets 9-1-5, oblong, one or more inches long, opposite, 

 thin, smooth above, with a bluish waxy gloss and a 

 few hairs below ; flowers | in., bright yellow arrang- 

 ed nearly all one side on long stalked racemes, 

 calyx f in., tubular, with a few flat-lying .hairs, 

 teeth 5, minute, petals 5, standard longer than the- 

 wings 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 frigidus, 



LEGUMINOSiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 130. 

 Lahoul. 



Astragalus prolixus, 



Leguminos^e . 

 F. B. I. ii. 121. 

 The Plains. 

 Lahore. 



small, annual weed, clothed densely with hori- 

 zontal-lying white hairs, very slender ; leaves i- 

 1|^ in., distinctly stalked, stipules free, minute, lan- 

 ceolate, leaflets 11-17, oblong, blunt, ^-| in., cover- 

 ed with the horizontal white hairs ; flowers ^-^ in. 

 yellow 6-12 together in heads on stalks a little 

 shorter than the leaves, calyx less than i in., den- 

 sely matted, teeth 5, linear-bristle-like, nearly 

 equal to the calyx tube petals, stamens and style 



