leguminosjE. 415 



close and short spike, of from 6 to 12 flowers. Pedicels much shorter 

 than the calyx, about the length of the subulate bracts. Calyx clothed 

 with black hairs, the subulate teeth as long as the campanulate tube. 

 Corolla probably purple or white, 3 lines long. Legume ovoid, inflated, 

 of a papery texture, half an inch in length, 3 or 4 lines in transverse 

 diameter, narrower in the direction of the sutures, nearly glabrous, 

 under a lens sparsely and minutely hairy, closely sessile in the calyx, 

 pointed, the acumination somewhat incurved, many-seeded, strictly one- 

 celled; the sutures not projecting into the cavity of the cell. 



T. Astragalus Pickeeingii, Sp. Nov. 



A. multiceps, subacaulis, depressus; stipulis vaginantibus imbricatis; 



foliis cano-villosis ; foliolis 19-23 obovato-oblongis emarginatis ; pedan- 



cido petiolo breviore capitatim %-i-floro; calycis dentibus triangular i- 



subulatis cequalibus tubo cylindraceo dimidio brevioribus; ovario 



tomentoso substipitato quinque-ovrdato. 



Hab. High Andes of Pern, between Casa Cancha and Culnai. 

 (Also Cerro Pasco, Matthews.) 



A depressed, and multicipital, nearly stemless species ; the caudexe* 

 or short stems csespitose, an inch or two in length, from a perennial 

 or somewhat lignescent root, clothed with the sheathing stipules, which 

 are closely imbricated on the upper, leafy portion. The stipules are 

 scarious, 2 or 3 lines long, more or less silky-viilous, united on the 

 side opposite the leaf almost to their summits, and behind the petiole 

 to a less extent, inclosing the base of the latter, with which it is 

 adnate only at the very base. Leaves canescently villous, as are the 

 peduncles, calyx, &c, li to 2 inches long, including the petiole of 

 about one-third the length. Leaflets 19 to 23, obovate-oblong and 

 emarginate, or almost obcordate, silky-villous both sides, somewhat 

 complicate, 2 or 3 lines long, approximate, but not closely compacted. 

 Floivers 3 or 4 together in a kind of head, on a peduncle shorter than 

 the petiole, which is at first nearly included in the stipular sheaths, at 

 length exserted to the length of 3 or 4 lines: the separate flowers 

 fully half an inch long, nearly sessile, subtended by ovate and mem- 

 branaceous bracts of scarcely one-fourth their length. Calyx cylin- 



