116. L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Garagana, 



* Leaf-rachis suppressed. 



1. C. pyg-meea, DC. Prodr. ii. 268 ; leaflets 4 digitate oUanceolate gla- 

 brous, flowers solitary neai-ly sessile. Brand. For. Flat: 134. Bobinia pygmsa, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 1044 ; Pall. Fl. Ross, i. t. 45. Genista yersicolor, Wall. CM. 

 5923 ; Royle Ml. t. 34, flg. 2. 0. versicolor, Bemth. in Moyle 111. 198. 



West Hi'M'at.ayas, temperate and alpine regions ; Tibet, Kunawae, &c., alt. 

 8-17,000 ft.^DiSTBiB. A%lianistan, Altai to DaTuria. 



A low undershrub, with the habit of a prickly Genista, the branches armed with a 

 pungent, ascending trifid spine under an inch long from each of the close nodes. 

 Leaves solitary or geminate in the spine axils, with rarely a perceptible petiole; 

 leaflets ^—^ in. long, firm, pale green. Pedicels jointed, shorter than the calyx. , Calysi 

 glabrous, \ in. long; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla bright reddish-yellow, | in; 

 standard glabrous. Pod linear, turgid, glabrous, naked within, |— 1 in. long. 



•* Leaf-^achis produced, with a spine at the end. 



2. C. GOnferta, Bemth. MSS.; leaflets 4-6 oblanceolate subglabrous, 

 stipules spinous, flowers 1-2 subsessile. 



Balti, temperate or alpine region, Winterbottmn. 



Nodes crowded on the castaneous downy branches. Spines woody, an inch long. 

 Stipules broad, scariose, downy, with a spiny tip ; leaflets J-f in. long, obtuse, with a 

 mucro, at first faintly silky beneath, subcoriaoeous. Pedicels downy, shorter than the 

 calyx. Calyx | in., finely silky ; teeth deltoid, ciliated, half as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla 1 in. long, the keel incurved, with very long claws. Ovary linear, densely- 

 pubescent, 10-15-ovuled ; style long, much incurved. Pod unknown. 



3. C. Gerardiana, Royle III. 198, t. 34, fig. 1 ; leaflets 8-12 oblan- 

 ceolate-oblong densely pubescent, stipules not spinous, flowers 1-2 subsessile. 

 Brand. For. Flor. 133. Astragalus Gerardianus,"'(??-oA. in Wall. Cat. 5938. 

 C. spinosissima, Benth. in Royle lU. 198 ; Canih. in Jaejiiem. Voy. Bot. t. 43. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine region, alt. 8-13,000 ft.; Gubwhal, 

 Ktjmaon, Ktotawak, 



A shrub reaching 3-4 ft. high, with very close nodes and downy young branches. 

 Old spiiies erecto-patent, pungent, 1-1^ in. long, often downy. Leaflets i-| in. long, 

 obtuse, mucronate, firm, densely silky ; stipules deltoid, scarious, not spine-tipped and 

 consequently the old spines simple, not trifid. Calyx shortly pedicelled, f in. lon^ 

 densely pubescent ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate, half the tube. Corolla twice me calyx. 

 Pod |-1 in by 1 in., woolly within and persistently clothed with grey pubescence on 

 the outside. 



4. C. polyacantha, Royle HI. 198; leaflets 10-12 obovate-oblong 

 densely pubescent, stipules spinous, flowers 1-2 on a short peduncle. Astragalus ' 

 polyacanthus. Wall. Cat. 5934. 



Cestrai, Himalaya, alpine or temperate region; Kcmaok, Blinkworth ; Gub- 

 WHAL, Strachey and Winterbottom. 



A low shrub, with dose nodes and densely downy young branches. Old spines 

 1-2 in. long, weaker and less pungent than in the last. iea/-rachise3 densely matted 

 with pale brown woolly pubescence ; leaflets J-| in. long, pale green, rigidly coriaceous, 

 truncate, mucronate. Common peduncle short and not always developed. Calyx ^ in. 

 long, densely silky, subtended by a pair of linear bracteoles ; teeth setaceous from a 

 deltoid base, half as long as the tube. Corolla yellowish, twice the calyx. Ovaryi 

 linear, densely pubescent. Pod unknown. 



5. C. brevlspina, Royle Ml. 198; leaflets 12-16 obovate-oblong gla- 

 brous or finely silky, stipules spinous, flowers 2-4 on a common peduncle. 

 Brand. For. Flor. 133. *^ 



