138 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Oxytropis. 



silky 13-25 oblong or lanceolate-oUong, heads finally sublax, coroUa half 

 as long again as the calyx, pods ascending. O. floribunda, Benth. in Boyle III. 

 198. Astragalus vesiculosus, Jacquem. MSS. 



West Himalayas, alpine region, alt. 10-12,000 ft. ; Lasiii., Zanskab, Ettna-wab, &c. 



Tufts 4-1 ft. high, crowded at the top of a -woody rootstock. Leaves long-petioled, 

 2-3 in. long ; leaflets ^^ in. long, moderately thick, pale green, densely clothed on 

 both sides with persistent adpressed white silky hairs ; stipules lanceolate or deltoid- 

 cuspidate, densely silky. Peduncles usually much oTertopping the leaves ; heads 

 finally 2-3 in. long ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx ^-^ in long, 

 densely clothed with mixed black and white silky hairs. Pod ^ in. long, oblong- 

 cylindrical, unilocular, distinctly stalked, 6-8-seeded. 



3. O. Thomsonl, Smth. MSS. ; stemless, tall, leaflets lanceolate 

 densely white-silky 13-51, heads finally sublax, coroUa twice as long as the 

 calyx, pods ascending. 



West Himalayas, temperate and alpine region, alt. 7-15,000 ft. ; Lahtji., Ladak, 

 Kashmir. 



General habit of 0. mollis. Leaves long-petioled, 4-6 in. long ; leaflets grey-green, 

 narrower in proportion, f -1 in. long, not so thick nor densely silky as in the last ; stipules 

 lanceolate, ^ in. long. Sacemcs finally 3-4 in. long ; peduncles equalling or over- 

 topping the leaves ; pedicels ^^^ in. ; bracts linear, small. Cali/x ^-^ in., densely 

 clothed with mixed black and white silky hairs ; teeth plumose, the lower nearly as 

 long as the tube. Pod oblong-cylindrical, unilocular, 4-6-seeded, with a few minute 

 adpressed white hairs ; stalk as long as the calyx-tube. 



** Flowers mostly yellow, rarely varying to purple. 



4. O. densa, Benth. MSS. ; acaulescent, very dwarf, leaflets 15-17 

 minute densely-silky, heads few-flowered shorf^peduncled, pod ovate-cylindrical 

 bilocular. 



West Tibet, alpine region, alt. 16-17,000 ft., Thomson, Straohey. 



Tufts densely caespitose from a woody root, the whole plant not more than 1-1^ in. 

 above the surface. Leaves under J in. long ; leaflets Jj in. long, close, oblong, thickly 

 matted with persistent grey-silky hairs; stipules deltoid, membranous, 1^-2 in., con- 

 nate downwards. Heads 3-6-flowered ; peduncles densely silky, |— J in. ; pedicels 

 very short. Bracts small, linear. Calyx ^ in., densely silky; tube campanulate ; 

 teeth linear, shorter than the tube. Corolla half as long again as the calyx. Pod 

 sessile, finely sUky, narrowed gradually from the middle to the point, turgid, S— 6- 

 seeded. 



5. O. Stracheyana, Benth. MSS.; stemless, very dwarf, leaflets 5-7 

 densely silky, heads few-flowered short-pedvmcled, pod round-oblong turgid 

 unilocular. 



West Tibet, alpine region ; Darma Yankti, alt. 15,500 ft., Straohey ^ Winter- 

 bottom. 



Whole plant not above a couple of inches above the surface. Stipules deltoid, 

 membranous, minute ; leaflets thick, complicate, oblong, ^— ^ in. long, densely matted 

 with grey-brown silky hairs. Heads short-peduncled, 2-3-flowered; bracts minute; 

 pedicels very short. Calyx f in. long, tubular, densely clothed with ascending grey 

 silky hairs ; teeth linear, ^\ tube. CoroUa half as long again as the calyx; Pod ^ in. 

 long, sessile, 3-4-seeded, densely clothed with long persistent pale brown silky hairs. 



6. O. tatarica, Jacquem. MSS. ; stemless, leaflets small 13-21 densely 

 matted vrith white silky hairs, heads dense long-peduncled, bracts minute, pod 

 sessile inflated unilocular round-oblong. 



