1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosse. 371 



Eastern Himalaya; Ta-loong, two days from Chumbi, Dr. King's 

 Collectors ! 



A shrub with close nodes, young branches pubescent with long spreading tawny 

 hairs. Leaflets J in. long, tips pungent, whitish and densely pubescent with long silky 

 hairs beneath, dark-green and sparsely pubescent above ; leaf-rachis and lanceolate 

 stipules both pungent-tipped and densely hirsute with long spreading tawny hairs. 

 Calyx § in. long, externally very thinly grey-puberulous, pedicels *12 in. long only, in 

 axils of small 2-3-jugate leaves, by the sheaths of which they are enclosed ; bracteoles 

 ; calyx-teeth triangular, £ as long as campanulate tube. Corolla twice the calyx. 

 Pod f in. long, ^ in. wide, glabrous within, sparsely pubescent with spreading silky 

 hairs outside. 



A very distinct species resembling in many respects C. Gerardiana, but with dif- 

 ferent tomentum and very different pods. 



4. Caragana polyacantha Royle. 



Add to description of F. B. L : — 



Pod linear acute, lj in, long, £ in. across, slightly curved ; 

 glabrous internally and externally. 



Add to distribution : — Kashmir ; Gilgit, Duthie ! Giles ! 



4sa t Caragana ambigua Stocks, Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 145; leaflets 

 small, 4-6, elliptic-mucronate, adpressed hoary-pubescent, stipules 

 spinescent, flowers usually solitary on distinct peduncles ; pod pubescent 

 oblong, shortly mucronate, distinctly recurved, sharply acuminate. 

 Boiss. Flor. Orient, ii. 199. C. Gerardiana Herb. Lace, not of Boyle, 



Scinde ; Stocks! British Beluchistan; near Quetta, Hamilton! 

 Ziarat, Lace n. 3697 (issued as G. Gerardiana) ! Distrib. Beluchistan 

 (Stocks!) S. Afghanistan (L. 0. Bind!) 



A small much branching shrub, with strong spreading spines 1-1^ in. long. 

 Leaves £-f in. ; leaflets pale-green £—j in., leaf-rachises hoary-puberulous. Pedun- 

 cle \ in., 2-bracteolate close below the calyx (i.e., pedicels very short), pubescent 

 with somewhat spreading hairs. Calyx adpressed-hoary, tube wide-campanulate, \ 

 in. deep, teeth triangular-lanceolate nearly as long as tube. Corolla f in. long. 

 Pod | in. long, turgid, £ in. wide. 



This is nearest, as M. Boissier has already suggested, to C. polyacantha. A 

 specimen named, and correctly named, C. ambigua, by Stocks himself, was sent by 

 him to the Calcutta Herbarium with the locality " Scinde " on the ticket. All 

 Stocks' other specimens, which have reached Calcutta either from Herb. Dalzell or 

 from Herb. Kew, are marked " t Beluchistan." 



4&. Caragana ulicina Stocks, Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 145; leaflets 

 small, 4-6, elliptic-retuse, mucronulate, adpressed hoary- pubescent, 

 stipules spinescent, flowers 1-2 on distinct peduncles ; pod pubescent, 

 lanceolate, gradually tapering to apex, quite straight. Boiss. Flor. 

 Orient, ii. 199 ; Aitch. 8f Bak. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii, 44. 



N.-W. Frontier ; Kurram Valley, Aitchison n. 8 ! Distrib, Belu - 

 chistan (Stocks !) 

 J. ii 47 



