PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 1041 



Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Cojipound Leaves. 



Leaflets Many. 



Petals Dissimilar. 



short spreading black and also white hairs, dense 

 just below the head, calyx i-| in., covered with 

 black silky hairs, teeth 5, equal to the tube, nearly 

 sessile, petals 5, contracted, keel and wings shorter 

 than the standard, stamens and style like those of 

 the last species ; pod ^ in., oblong, sessile, black, 

 silky, two-seeded. 



Astragalus cashmirensis, small, perennial, stems stout, shaggy with long 

 LEGUMIN0S-3E. hairs ; leaves 3-4 in., distinctly stalked, stipules^ 



F. B. I. ii. 127. in., lanceolate, thin, free, marked with lines, leaf- 



Kashmir 9-10,000 ft. lets 29-33, oblong blunt, or short-pointed, |-f in., 

 (Falconer). crowded, dull, densely clothed at first with fine 



long hairs ; flowers f in., yellow in dense round 

 heads on stalks 1-3 in., bracts |-f in., linear, feather- 

 ed, persistent, calyx f-|^ in., thinly covered with 

 long hairs, teeth 5, linear, petals 5, standard longer 

 than the wings and keel, stamens and style like 

 those of the last species ; pod \ in., linear-oblong,, 

 straight, sessile, finely velvety, hollowed down the 

 keel, narrowed into a long beak, 6-8 seeded. 



Astragalus leucocephalus, small, perennial, densely covered with silvery 

 LeguminostE. white hairs, stems slender short ; leaves 1-3 in., sti- 



F. B. I. ii. 128. pules small, leaflike, united below the middle, 



Himalaya 1-7,000 ft. leaflets ^-\ in., oblong, 21-31, thick, blunt or nearly 

 Simla, Naldera short-pointed, close to each other, covered with 



(CoUett). silvery white hairs ; flowers \ in., pale yellow in 



Murre'e (Douie). small very dense, oblong heads on densely white^ 



Sakesar, Salt range. felted stalks, 2-6 in., bracts lanceolate, longer than 

 the buds, calyx i in., shaggy with white hairs, ne- 

 arly sessile, teeth 5, bristle-like, equal to the calyx 

 tube, petals 5, keel shorter than the standard and 

 wings, stamens and style like those of the last 

 species ; pod -J in., oblong, sessile, finely downy,. 

 3-4 seeded. 

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