!■. LEGDMiNOsa;. (J. G. Baker.) 119 



* Annuals with slender trailing stems and sessile pods (habit of Suljgen. 

 TrimeniBBua). 



2. Ai. amherstlanus, Benth. in Royle III. 199; corolla scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, pod 10-12-8eeded with the valves but little inflexed. Bimffe 

 Man. i. 6, ii. 3. 



West Himalayas, temperate region, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; KisrwAK, Ktjna-wae, 

 Chamba, Simla. — Distbib. Afghanistan. 



8tema densely caespitpse, diffuse, 1-1 ft., dothedwith dense adpressed whitish hairs. 

 Leaves short-petioled, 1-1| in. ; leaflets 13-17, narrow, oblong, obtuse, \-\ in. long, 

 densely clothed with thick adpressed white hairs ; stipules minute, lanceolate. Flowers 

 4-10, in close distinetly-peduncled racemes ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute, seta- 

 ceous. Calyx i-| in., shaggy with hairs like those of the leaves ; teeth setaceous, as 

 long as the tube. Corolla primrose-yellow. Fod linear, turgid, |-| in. long, much 

 iecurved, rostrate, thinly pubescent. 



3. A. subumbellatus, Klotzschin Heise Pi: Wald. Bot. 169, t. 3; 

 corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, pod 20-24-seeded with the 

 sutures much inflexed. A. hippocrepidis, Benth. MSS. ; Bv/nge Man. i. 6, ii. 3 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 231. A. Scorpiurus, Bvnge Morn. loc. cit. A. humifusus, 

 Jaeguem. MSS. 



Punjab, Hazaba, Kashmir, tropical and temperate regions, ascending to 

 6-7000 ft. — DisTHiB. Beloochistan, Afghanistan. 



Stems 1-1 ft., diffuse, branched, clothed with short deciduous ascending white 

 hairs. Leaves 1-2 in.; leaflets 13-21, distant, oblong, glaucous, |— | in., thilily or 

 densely pilose or nearly glabrescent ; stipules minute, lanceolate, cuspidate. Racemes 

 distinctly peduncled, 6-10-flowered, lax or close ; pedicels very short ; bracts setaceous, 

 very minute. Caiyx ^ in., thinly pubescent ; teeth setaceous, as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla I in., yellow tinged with rose-purple ; blade of wings lanceolate, shorter than 

 the standard and keel. Fod J-J in., cylindrical, much recurved, shortly pubescent, 

 almost completely bilocular. 



** Perennials with slender ceBspitose trailing stems and stalked pods (habit 

 of Subgen. Hypoglottis). 



4 A. pycnorhizus, TVall. Cat. 6927; glabrous, flowers 1-2, calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate nearly as long as the tube, wings shorter than the keel. Benth. 

 in Boyle III. 199 ; Bunge Mon. i, 4, ii. 1. Sphserophysa pycnorhiza, Benth. Gen. 

 Plant, i. 504. 



NiPAi, Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 6-12,000 ft., HooJc.fil. 



Boot woody, fusiform. Stems wiry, \-\ ft. Leaves an inch or more long ; leaflets 

 close, 11-13, green, obovate-oblong, truncate-emarginate, | in. long, clothed with 

 only a few very short obscure hairs ; stipules free, minute, membranous, deltoid. Fe- 

 duncles equalling or exceeding the leaves, clothed with short mixed black and white 

 hairs ; pedicels very short ; bracts membranous, lanceolate. Calyx J in., gibbous, clothed 

 with minute pubescence like that of the peduncle. Corolla ^-f in., purplish ; limb of 

 standard round, J in. broad ; wings half as broad as the depth of the keel. Fod J-f in. 

 long, glabrous, inflated, 12-16-seeded, the suture not inflexed ; stalk much shorter 

 than the calyx. 



5. A. Donlanus, DC. Prodr. ii. 283; slightly pubescent, flowers few, 

 wings as long as the keel, calyx-teeth half as long as Ihe tube. Bunge Mon, 

 i. 4, ii. 1., A. macrorhizus, Don Prod, 245, non Cm>. 



NiPAL, Wdllicih. 



Flant prostrate, beset with a few scattered adpressed hairs. Leaves with 8-10- 

 pairs of oval alternate mucronulate leaflets, which are pubescent beneath, but when 



