1 34i I. LEGUMiNOsai. (J. G. Baker.) \_AstragaTm. 



any leaflet at the end, large yellow flowers in the axils of the leaves without 

 any peduncles, gihbous calyces and naked stigmas. Included ia Fischer's mono- 

 graph in Tragaeantha, from which they are separated by their pedicelled gibbous 

 calyx. 



* Leaflets gldbrescent or dbsourely sWcy. 



61. A. polyacantbus, Boyle III. 199, non Watt. Cat. 5934; spines 

 short, stipules deltoid or lanceolate-deltoid, leaflets 9-13, flowers sessile in the 

 axils of the leaves usually geminate, coroUa twice as long as the calyx. A. 

 Daltonianus, Bunge Mm. i. 44 ; ii. 69. A. psUocentrus, Fisch. ; Bunge Mm. 

 i. 44 ; ii. 70. A. scariosus, Benth. MS8. ; Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 71. A. Grah- 

 amianus, Rm/le III. 199, t. 36, fig. 2 ; Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 68. A. Jacque- 

 montii, Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 68. 



Common in the north-west, ascending from the plains of the Ptoijab to 12,000 ft., 

 reaching east to Ktjmaon and Ghar-wai,. — Disteib. A%hanistan. 



A copiously-branched undershrub, -with short branchlets armed Tvith the crowded 

 ascending old leaf-rachises, which are not more than 11-2 in. long. Leaflets oblong, 

 glabrescent or persistently slightly silky, pale glaucous green, rather thick in texture, 

 often complicate, :|-l in. long. Pedicels silky, \-^ in. Calyx tubular, J in. long, 

 glabrescent or thinly silky ; mouth oblique ; teeth short, linear. Corolla 1-1 j in. 

 long ; wings shorter than the standard, and keel than the wings. Fod J in. long, 

 dimidiate-oblong, turgid, sessile, bUocular, 15-20-seeded. 



62. A. cicerifolius, Boyle ; Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 70 ; spines elongated, 

 leaflets 31—41, stipules lanceolate or Unear-lanceolate, flowers in peduncled 

 heads, corolla not twice as long as the calyx. A. ophtes, Benth. MSS. A. 

 tenuispinus, Bunge Mon. i. 44 ; ii. 70. A. microphyllus, Jacquem. MSS. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine region, alt. 10-17,000 ft. ; Nubea, Ladax, 

 Kashmib, Garwhal, Ktinawar, &c. 



An undershrub, densely armed with the erecto-patent rigid stramineous leaf- 

 rachises, which are ^— |- ft. long. Leaflets finely silky at first, mostly glabrescent 

 when mature, pale green, thick in texture, obtuse, sometimes emarginate, ascending, 

 caducous, J— I in. long, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong. Flowers usually 3-4 together 

 on short peduncles from the axils of the leaves ; pedicels ^— J in. ; bracts linear or 

 setaceous, exceeding the pedicels. Calyx ^— | in., with a few adpressed blact or 

 brownish sOiy hairs ; teeth setaceous, a third as long as the tube. Proportion of the 

 petals as in the last. Fod l-| in. long, oblong, turgid, bUocular, densely silky, narrowed 

 to the point, 15-20-seeded. 



** Leaflets permstently densely silky. 



63. A. multiceps, WaU. Cat. 6937 ; main stems not produced, branchlets 

 with densely crowded nodes, flowers 1-2 together in leaf-axils usually not 

 peduncled, coroUa twice as long as the calyx. Bunge Mon. i. 44, ii. 69. 



West Himalayas, temperate zone, alt. 10-12,000 ft.; SiitLA, Kttmaon, Gaewhal. 



Tufts densely congested, armed with the very crowded ascending old leaf-rachises, 

 which are 1|— 3 in. long. Stipules \ in., lanceolate, adnata only at the very base ; 

 leaflets 21-31, mostly crowded, obovate-oblong, ii in. long, thick in texture, 

 dull green, clothed vrith grey silky hairs. Pedicels ^^J in. ; bracts linear, exceeding 

 the pedicels. Calyx f in., thinly silky ; teeth linear-setaceous, half as long as the 

 tube. Corolla | in. ; standard exceeding wings and keel. Fod sessile, oblong, turgid, 

 bilocular, 12— H-seeded, clothed with fine grey silky hairs. 



64. A. zanskarensis, Benth. MSS.; main stems short, branchlets 



