.] I/. LEGUMisDsa!. (J. G. Baker.) 123; 



Plains of Punjab and Scinde. — Distrie. East Europe, Orient, "West Siberia. 



Stems suberect, ^1^ ft., densely clothed with short soft spreading white hairs.. 

 Leaves distinctly petioled, 3-4 inches long ; leaflets ^-^ in., distant, greenish, thin at 

 first, densely pilose on hoth sides ; stipules lanceolate, free, larger than in aU the pre- 

 ceding. Heads very dense, many-flowered, on pilose peduncles much shorter than the- 

 leaves. Cali/si; J in., densely pilose ; teeth setaceous^ plumose, exceeding the tube.. 

 Corolla little exserted, the lanceolate acute wings shorter than the standard and keel. 

 Pod i in. long, sausage-shaped, membranous, rugose, completely conduplicate. 



SusCrEX. 4. Fodolotus, JRoyle. A caulescent perennial, with a few 

 ohscure basifixed hairs and naked stigma, differing from all the other groups by 

 the endocarp of the unilocular pod separating as a thin membrane and produced 

 into septa between the seeds. 



19. Ai. bosackloldes, Bemth. Gen, i, p. 507. Fodolotus hosackioides-. 

 Soyle III 198. 



KuMAON and Guewhai,, temperate region. 



Stems slender, glabrous, zigzag, densely csespitose, 1^1 J ft. Leaves short-petioled,. 

 1-1 J in.; leaflets 13-15, ^een, glabrous, oblong, obtuse, ^|in. ; stipules minute^ 

 deltoid. Peduncles equalling or exceeding the leaves, l-2-flow6red. CaU/a; ^ in., 

 glabrous ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx ; petals equal in 

 length, wings and keel abruptly incurved. Pod linear, turgid, straight, ^-f in. long,. 

 3-6-seeded, with a stalk as long as the calyx. 



STTBeElf. 6. Kypogrlottis. Herbaceous perennials, with basiflxed hairs^. 

 flowers in dense mostly peduncled capitate heads, and naked stigmas. 



* Seads sessile orpedtmcled. Flowers lilac or purple. 



20. A., confertus, Benth. M88. ; stems very dwarf densely caespitose- 

 thinly clothed with adpressed white hairs, leaflets 11-13, calyx clothed with 

 adpressed black hairs, teeth linear shorter than the tube, pod stalked unilocular 

 few-seeded. Bunge Mom. i. 23 ; ii. 27. 



West Tibet, alpine region; Pangong and Parang valley, alt. 15-17,500 ft.^ 

 Thomso^i, Henderson. 



Shizojne woody, fusiform, the whole plant not more than 1-3 inches high abova- 

 the soil. Leaves J-| in. long ; leaflets silvery, thick, close, complicate, oblong, densely 

 canescent, ^ in. or less long; stipules small, lanceolate. Heads 6-8-flowered; 

 peduncle 1-lA in., mostly subradical, clothed with adpressed black and white silky 

 hairs ; pedicels and bracts very small. Cal^x J in., the tube campanulate. Corolla 

 tyrice the calyx ; keel and wings subequal, rather shorter than the standard. Ovary 

 silky, not seen fully developed. 



21. A. rlgrldulus, Benth. MSS.; stems very short glabrous, leaflets. 

 17-21, calyx clothed with adpressed black silky hairs, teeth lanceolate as. 

 long as the tube, pod oblong turgid sessile imUocular 6-8-seeded. Bwnge Men. 

 i. 23; ii. 25. 



SiKKiM, alpine region; Tungu, alt. 13,000 ft., HooJc.JU. 



Bhizome slender, much branched below the surface, the whole plant closely 

 resembling A. alpmus in habit, not more than 3-4 inches high above the soil. Leaves 

 distinctly petioled, 1-1^ in. ; leaflets green, linear-oblong, obtuse, J-J in. long, thinly 

 coated with adpressed white hairs ; stipules J in. deltoid, membranous. Heads 6-10- 

 flowered ; peduncles and pedicels both very short. Calyx un^er | in. Corolla tvrice- 

 the calyx; limb of standard oblong, exceeding the wings and keel. Pod glabrous,. 

 oblong, membranous, J in. long. 



22. A. alpinus, Xmn. 1^. 1070? ; stems short slender clothed with_ ad- 

 pressed white silky hairs, leaflets' 11-13, calyx clothed with adpressed nuxed^ 



