Afiragalus.'] i. leouminosj:. (J. G. Baker.) 127 



West Himalayas, temperato and alpine region, alt. 5-13,000 ft. ; Laitoi., Kdlu, 



KUNAWAB, KaSHMIE, GABWHAI.. 



Stemsr -very slender, 1-2 feet long, -with distant internodes, clothed -when young with. 

 .« few minute adpressed white hairs. Leaves ll-2 in. long; leaflets thin, oblong, 

 I obtuse or emarginate, J-l in^ long, pale green, with a few short adpressed white hairs ; 

 istipules minute, lanceolate, spreading. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, clothed with 

 mixed black and white hairs ; pedicels ^ in. ; bracts very minute. Calyx ^-| in., 

 campauulate. Corolla |-| in., keel slightly exceeding the wings, falling short of the 

 standard. Pod |-J in. long, membranous, finely black-silky ; stalk exceeding 

 the calyx. — A specimen gathered by Strachey and Winterbottom at the Melam 

 glacier in Kumaon has setaceous calyx-teeth, twice as long as the campanulate tube, 

 and will probably prove a new species between A. himalayanus and Maddenianus. 



35. A. DKaddenlanus, Bemth. MSS. ; stems elongated slender weak 

 •clothed at first with short spreading black and white hairs, leaflets 19-21, calyx 

 clothed with minute adpressed Mack and white hairs, teeth setaceous as long as 

 the tube, pod stalked unilocular 3-4^seeded. 



Ktihaon ; temperate region, alt. 10-11,000 ft., Madden, Edgeworth. 



General habit exactly as in A. himalayamis, but the young branches densely beset 

 with short spreading black and white bristly hairs. Leaves 11-2 in. long ; leaflets 

 oblanoeolate-oblong, obtuse, densely clothed at first on both sides with adpressed 

 silvery hairs ; stipules minute, spreading. Heads few-flowered ; peduncle ^1 in., 

 clothed like the branches ; bracts linear, exceeding the short black pedicels." Calyx 

 ^-i in. Corolla |- in. ; wings much shorter than standard and keel. Vod f in. 

 long, membranous, densely white-silky, narrowed to both ends; stalk exceeding 

 .the calyx. 



** Heads pedimcled. Flowers yellow. 



36. A. casbmirensis, Bimge Mon. i. 30 ; ii. 34 ; stems elongated shaggy 

 with long hairs, leaflets 29-33, calyx thinly clothed with long hairs, corollEi 

 much exserted, pod sessile finely pubescent bilocular 6-8-8eeded. 



Kashmie, temperate region, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Jacquemont, Falconer. 



Stems stoat, erect or ascending, under a foot high. Leaves distinctly petioled, 3-4- 

 inches long ; leaflets close, oblong, obtuse or acute, |-^ in. long, dull green, clothed 

 densely at &st with long fine hairs ; stipules ^ in. long, free, lanceolate, membranous, 

 striated. Heads dense, round ; peduncle 1-3 in. ; pedicel J5-J in., shaggy ; bracts 

 linear, plumose, persistent, J-| in. long. Cah/x |-J in. ; teeth linear, shorter than 

 the tube. Corolla | in. ; standard exceeding the wings and keel. Pod ^ in. long, 

 •firm in texture, linear-oblong, straight, hollowed down the keel, narrowed into a long 

 beak. 



Vae. 1. Falconeri, Baker; taller, much less shaggy, stipules narrower an inch 

 long, leaflets 31-34 broad-oblong obtuse. — ^Kashmir, Falconer- 



37. A. floridus, Bemth. MSS. ; stems elongated clothed with minute 

 lather spreading black hairs, leaflets 25-31, calyx densely clothed with ad- 

 pressed bkick hairs, pod long-stalked imilocular 4^5-seeded. Bwiiffe Mon. i. 24 ; 

 ii. 28. 



SiKKiM, alpine region ; Tungu, alt. 13,000 ft., Hoolc.fil. 



Stems moderately stout, erect, ^1 ft. Leaves 1^3 in. ; leaflets linear-oblong, 

 glaucous, subacute,,^ in., thinly clothed with adpressed silvery bristles ; stipules 

 lanceolate or deltoid, free, |-1 in. Heads round or oblong, 12-30-flowered, the lower 

 flowers cernuous ; peduncle 1-2 in., densely black-silky ; pedicels black, jL in. ; bracts 

 linear, ininute. Calyx under J in. ; teeth short, linear. Corolla bright yellow, twice 

 the calyx ; petals nearly equal. Pod linear-oblong, ^ in. long, narrowed to both ends, 

 ■densely black-sUky ; stalk as long as the calyx-tube. 



