Astragalus.'] l. leguminosj!. (J. G. Baker.) 121 



10. A. adesmiaefolms, Benth. MSS.; glahrous, stipules large foliace- 

 cus, leaflets very numerous, pod flat glabrous. Bunge Mon. i. 4 ; ii. 2. Phaca. 

 Hoflineisteri, E2otzsch JRdse Pr. Wald. Bot. 159, t. 2. 



West Tibetan Himalayas, alt. 8-12,000 ft. ; Dhas, Zanskar, Piti, Ladak, 

 Ktibea. 



Branches zigzag, glabrous, terete, woody, reaching several feet in height. Leaves 2-6 

 in. long; leaflets 25-il, green, obovate, emarginate, rather fleshy, lower ^~\ in. long, 

 npper growing gradually smaller ; stipules persistent, obliquely cordate-ovate. Ea- 

 eemes very lax, \-l ft. ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx ^ in., ob- 

 lique, tubuloso-campauulate, glabrous ; teeth minute, deltoid. CoroMa lilac, f in., the 

 petals subequal in length ; limb of wing lanceolate, acute. Pod oblong, f-^ in., nar- 

 rowed to both ends, i-S-seeded ; lower suture hardly at all inflexed ; stalk more than 

 twice the calyx. 



11. A., tricbocarpus, Ch-ah. in Wall. Cat. 6926 ; obsourely silky, sti- 

 .pulesjminute, leaflets very numerous, pod turgid finely downy. Bvmge Mon. 

 i. 4 ; ii. 2. A. sesbanioides, Benth. in Boyle III. 199 ; Bunge loc. cit. 



Central Himalayas, temperate region, aTt. 5-8000 ft. ; SijrLA, G-xtkwhai., Ktjmaon. 



Erect, suffruticose, reaching several feet high, the branches straight, virgate, much 

 furrowed. Leaves subsessile, 2-4 in; leaflets 31-41, oblong, ^-| in. long, subobtuse, 

 pale green, clothed with minute silvery hairs. Racemes very copious, distinctly pe- 

 duneled, erecto-patent, 2-4 in. long, with very numeroixs flowers; pedicels short, 

 cernuous, clothed with dense short mixed black and white hairs ; bracts linear, minute. 

 Calyx glabrous, campanulate, oblique, i in. ; teeth deltoid. Corolla lilac, 4-5 times 

 the calyx ; limb of standard round ; wings lanceolate, shorter than the keel. Fod f-J 

 in. long, oblong, completely 2-celled, 4-6-seeded ; stalk much exceeding the calyx. 



Stibgen. 3. Trlmeniaeus, Bunge. Annual weeds with basifixed hairs, 

 small yellow flowers in usually dense heads, and glabrous stigmas. 



12. A,, prolizus, Sieber PI. ^gypt. JS.vsie. ; heads dense peduncled, leaflets 

 11-17 oblong obtuse, pod short straight linear-oblong 6-8-seeded nearly 

 bilocular. Bunge Mon. i. 9 ; ii. 6 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 228. A. arabicus, 

 JEhrhenb. ; Bunge Mon, loe. cit. ; Boiss. loc. cit. Phaca Vogelii, Webb in I£ook. 

 Nigr. Fl. 123, t. 8. 



Plains of Scihde and Punjab. — Disteie. Cape Verde islands ; through Egypt to 

 Arabia. 



Stems very slender, J— 1 ft., densely clothed upwards with adpressed white hairs. 

 Leaves distinctly petioled, ^-1 J in. long ; leaflets distant, glaucous, ^-j in., clothed with 

 fine adpressed white hairs; stipules minute, lanceolate, free. Heads 6— 12-flowered; 

 jjeduncles rarely as long as the leaves. Calyx under i\ in., densely matted ; teeth 

 linear-setaceous, nearly as long as the tube. Corolla little exserted. Pod sessile, 

 turgid, ^— I in. long, densely pubescent. 



13. A. Aitchisoni, Baker ; heads very lax short-peduncled, leaflets ob- 

 long emarginate, pod very long and slender straight or slightly recurved 

 slightly torulose unilocular 15-20-seeded. 



Punjab, Salt range, Aitchison. 



Stem suberect, ^ ft., slender, thinly white-canescent. Leaves distinctly petioled, 

 lJ-2^ in. long ; leaflets distant, 17-25, alternate, \ in. long, grey-green, thinly 

 coated with adpressed short white hairs; stipules minute, deltoid. Raoemes 4-6- 

 fiowered ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute. Calyx ^ in. campanulate, thinly 

 "white-silky ; teeth linear or lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube. Corolla twice 

 the calyx, white with a purple tip ; standard longer than the wings and keel. Pod 

 1^ in. long, under i in. thick, thinly white-canescent at first; dissepiment not at all 

 incurved ; seeds distant, very small. 



