120 L. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) \Asiragahus. 



young silty ; stipules connate. Feduncles twice as long as the leaves. Cdyx \ in. long. 

 Corolla purple ; standard | in. long, blade broad. Pod silky, subulate, 20-seeded. 

 Described from DC. and Bunge he. cit. — No specimen seen. 



6. A. kongrensis, Benth. MSS. ; green, finely silky, flowers in a dense 

 iead, wings shorter than the keel, calyx clothed with adpressed silky hairs, 

 teeth lanceolate much shorter than the tube. 



SiKxiM ; Kongra Lama, alt. 15,000 ft., Hooi. fil. 



Subacaulescent, with a slender rhizome, creeping below the surface. Leaves dis- 

 tinctly petioled, 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 15-17, roundish-oblong, obtuse, not complicate, 

 pale green, thinly coated with short white hairs ; stipules ^-^ in., ovate, obtuse, per- 

 sistent, slightly silky. Mowers 5-6, ascending or eernuous, in a dense head ; peduncles 

 li-2 in., erect, clothed with adpressed black hairs ; pedicels very short, densely black- 

 silky; bracts linear, not very small. Calyx -^ in. Corolla twice the calyx, deep 

 purple ; keel as long as the standard. Ovary densely silky, multiorulate, with a stalk 

 nearly as long as the calyx-tube. 



7. A. tribulifollus, Bemth. MSS. ; glaucous, densely tomentose, leaflets 

 crowded, flowers few in a dense head, calyx-teeth subulate as long as the tuhe, 

 wings much shorter than the keel. Bunge Man. i. 4, ii. 2. 



Westebn Tibet, alpine region; vaUey below Hanle Eupchu, alt. 14,500 ft.; Thomr 

 son, Heyde. 



Boot-stock long, woody, fusiform. SteTns and thick glaucous leaves densely clothed 

 ■with short spreading white hairs. Leaves 1-2 in. long; leaflets crowded, 17-21, 

 oblong, 1-| in. long; stipiiles minute; deltoid, leaf-like, free. Peduncles 1-2 in., 

 the short pubescence growing black upwards ; pedicels very short ; bracts subulate, 

 conspicuous, persistent. Calyx \ in., densely clothed with short black pubescence. 

 Corolla purplish, half as long again as the calyx ; standard \ in. broad. Ovary silky, 

 distinctly stalked ; ovules about 20. Pod not seen. 



8. A. Kendersoni, Baker; glaucous, densely tomentose, leaflets 

 crowded, flowers 1-2 together, calyx-teeth lanceolate shorter than the tuhe. 



TiBBT ; upper part of the Karakash valley. Dr. Henderson. 



Closely allied to the last, the thick glaucous crowded leaflets clothed with dense 

 white hairs, the whole plant in the single specimen gathered not more than a 

 couple of inches high. Leaves 1-J in. long; leaflets 13-17, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 folded together. Peduncles short, clothed with short white pubescence. Calyx ^ in., 

 matted with mixed black and white hairs. Corolla seen in bud only. Pod oblong, the 

 same size and shape, and as much inflated as in A. pycnorhieus, membranous, with a few 

 short adpressed hairs and a, short stalk; sutures scarcely at all intruded; seeds 

 about 20. 



*** Tall perennials with almost woody stems, lax Jlowers, and long-stalked 

 few-seeded pods (habit of Suhgen. Phaca). 



9. A. Falconeri', Bunge Mom. i. 4 ; ii. 2 ; densely pubescent, stipules 

 hroad foliaceous, leaflets 13-17, pod turgid glabrescent. A. acutiflorus, Benth. 

 MSS. 



WjEST Tibet, Falconer ; Hazaea, Winterhottom. 



Stems flexuous, old glabrescent, young clothed with short spreading white pubes- 

 cence. Leaves 1-1 J in. long; leaflets close, glaucous, obtuse, oblanceolate-oblong, 

 i-J in. long. Bacemes few-flowered, long-peduncled ; pedicels shorter than the calyx, 

 downy. Ccdyx ^ in., gibbous, nearly glabrous ; teeth very short. Corolla lilac, J in. ; 

 wings lanceolate, acute, as long as the keel. Pod ^— | in. long, narrowed to both ends, 

 4-6-seeded ; stalk twice the calyx ; inflexed suture reaching all through in the lower 

 part, not in the upper. 



