118 L, LEGUMiNOsa;. (J. G. Baker.) [Guldenstmdtia, 



large, leafy, ovate ; leaflets ^-^ in. long, not at aU rigid. Peduncle filiform, 1-3 in. 

 long ; pedicels shorter than calyx ; bracts lanceolate, very minute. CoIt/x i in., silky j 

 upper teeth deltoid, lower lanceolate. CoroUa 3-4 times calyx; standard round, 

 glabrous. Pod linear, glabrous, J in. long, 6-8-seeded, irith a narrow border to the- 

 upper suture. 



2. €r. mlrpourensis, Senth. MSS. ; stemless, leaflets 3-7 oblong' 

 oTasciirely pubescent, flowers 1-3, calyx-teeth as long as the tube. Astragalus- 

 mirpourensis, Camb. in Jacguem. Toy. Bat. 39, t. 46. 



TJpjEB CrANGETio plain at Mirpour, Jacquemmit. Hazaba, Dr. Stewart." 

 BhizOTnes slender, branched, with the leaves and peduncles in a rosette at the sur- 

 face. Petiole ^\ in., obscurely pubescent, like the rachis and underside of the^ 

 leaves ; leaflets |-J in. long, obtuse, glabrescent above, not at all rigid. Peduncle as 

 long as the leaves ; pedicels scarcely any. Calffx ^ in. finely silky ; teeth lanceolate- 

 acuminate. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod twice the calyx, linear, finely silky. 



3. Cr. multiflora, Bunge Enum. PI. Chin. 18 ; stemless, leaflets 11-13 

 oblong densely silky, flowers 3-6, calyx-teeth as long as the tube. 



West Huvtataya, Boyle, the exact station not known. Disteib. China. 



Bosettes of leaves and peduncles densely crowded at the surfece on a slender woody- 

 rhizome, ieffl/'-rachis 2-4 in., including the distinct petiole, densely pubescent;: 

 leaflets J— J in., obtuse, soft, not rigid. Peduiicle equalling or overtopping the leaves ; 

 bracts linear, exceeding the very short pedicels. Calyx \ in.; teeth linear-lanceo- 

 late. Corolla violet or yellow, twice the calyx. Pod twice the calyx, linear, straight,, 

 densely pubescent. 



26. ASTXIAGAZ.VS, Linn. 



Herbs or nndershrubs with pinnate leaves, the leaf-rjichis terminating either 

 in a leaflet or a spine. Calyx tubular or campanulate, equal or gibbous on the 

 back ; teeth 5, subequal. CoroUa usually distinctly exserted ; petals subequal 

 or wings and keel shorter than the standard, the keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens 

 diadelphous _; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovuled; style 

 incurved, stigma capitate. Pod linear or oblong, usually turgid, continuous 

 within or more or less completdy longitudinally 2-celLed from the introversion 

 of the inferior sutm-e. — Distbib. Belts the world in the north-temperate zone, 

 the head quarters being "Western and Central Asia. Monographed in the llth 

 volume of the 7th series of the Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of St. 

 Petersburg, by Bunge, who estimates the niunber of species at 1150-1200. 



_ Stjbgen. 1. Trlchostylus, Baker. A herbaceous perennial, vrith basifiiedi 

 hairs, the style bearded down the inner face below the stigma, as in Phaseolvs. 



1. A. V.ey<iei, BaJcer. 



West Tibetan Ktwat .ayas, alpine region, alt. 15-16,000 ft., Strachey. By the- 

 Tso-kar sea, between Knpschu and Korsog, Heyde. 



EMsoTne slender, woody, the whole plant not reaching more than an inch above the 

 soil. Leaves \-^ in. long; leaflets 17-19, oblong, crowded, complicate, persistently 

 argenteo-canescent, fleshy; stipules small, deltoid, fleshy, spreading. Peduncles J-Jin. 

 Flowers 2-4 in a close umbellate head ; bracts and pedicels minute. Calyx ^ m.^. 

 densely argenteo-canescent ; teeth lanceolate-deltoid, rather shorter than the campanu- 

 late tube. Corolla more than twice the calyx, roae-red with the tip deeper ; petals- 

 subequal ; Umb of standard round, reflexed, deeply emarginate. Pod i in, long, oblongs 

 membranous, much inflated, short-stalked, glabrous, 1-celled, many-seeded. 



Stjbgen. 2. Fogronophace, Btmge. A group of various habit, witlh 

 lasifixed hails, differing feom all the rest by its penicillate stigma. 



