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Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Leaflets Many. 



Petals Dissimilar. 



Astragalus Munroi. small, perennial, rootstock stout, long, woody, 



Leguminos^. spindle-shaped, stems of a tuft of shoots from the 



F. B. I. ii. 128. base, stout, shaggy with dense spreading white hairs; 



Spiti, Lahul. leaves 1^-2 in., stipules ^ in., linear or lanceolate, 



free, leaflets 19-21, f-1 in., lanceolate with a broad 

 blunt tip, thinly covered with loose white hairs ; 

 flowers |-g in., yellow, in few-flowered sessile axil- 

 lary heads, calyx ^-f in., thinly velvety, teeth o, 

 linear, bristle-like, petals 5, nearly equal, stamens 

 and style like those of the last species ; pods 

 oblong, sessile 1 in. long, inflated, 10-12 seeded. 



Oxytropis lapponica. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, 

 Compound. i 



Oxytropis cachemirica, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. l.ii. 139. 

 Kashmir 8-10,000 ft. 



small, perennial, rootstock woody, stem short 

 finely velvety ; leaves 1-2 in., stipules lanceolate 

 or triangular, united below, leaflets 13-21, oblong 

 lanceolate, f-^ in., densely white silky ; flowers ^ in., 

 yellow, rarely purple in dense heads, 12-30 flowered, 

 on long stalks, bracts distinct, lanceolate, calyx 

 I in., densely white silky, teeth 5, linear, nearly 

 equal, petals 5, standard longest, keel shortest 

 with a distinct point, stamens 10, one free, others 

 united, style abruptly incurved, beardless ; pod 

 |-| in., sessile, much inflated, shaggy with loose 

 dense white silky hairs, round-oblong, 5-6 seeded. 



Oxytropis Meinshausenii, small, perennial, stem distinct, at first thinly 

 Leguminos-E. covered with soft scattered hairs ; leaves 3-4 in., 



F. B. I. ii. 139. stipiiles J-g in., free, lanceolate or oblong, leaflets 



Himalaya 9-11,000 ft. 17-31, |^-f in., oblong, blunt, green, slightly cover- 

 Valley of Kishengunga. ed with long whitish hairs on both surfaces, 

 flowers f in., yellow, rarely purple in a dense 

 12-20 flowered head on erect stalks, 4-6 in., 

 bracts |-| in., linear, covex-ed with scattered black 



