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33. ASTRAGALUS. Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 118. 



Herbs or undershrubs with pinnate leaves, the leaf-rachis often ter- 

 minating in a spine. Peduncles axillary. Calyx tubular or catnpanu- 

 late, equal or gibbous on the back, t6eth subequal. Corolla usually 

 distinctly exserted ; 'petals subequal, or wings and keel shorter than 

 the standard ; ^eeZ incurved, obtuse. 6'i!a'/we?i.s 2-ad(?lphous, anthers 

 uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovuled, style incurved, 

 Migma capitate. Fod linear or oblong, usually turgid, continuous 

 within, or more or less completely longitudinally 2-celled from the 

 introversion of the inferior suture. — Species upwards of 1,200, predomi- 

 nant in Central and W. Asia. 



Flowers in dense peduncled heads . . 1. A. leucocephalus. 

 Flowers in elongated racemes . . 2. A. graveolens. 



1. A. leucocephalus, R. Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5923 ; Benth. in Boyle 111. 

 198, t. 32, fig. 2; F.B.I, ii, 128. 



A perennial with short densely csespitose ascending stems clothed with 

 loose white hairs, Leaves 1-3 in. long ; stipules small, leafy, connate 

 below the middle ; leaflets 21-31, oval-oblong, silvery-canescent. Heads 

 small, dense, oblong, on long white-tomentose peduncles ; bracts lanceo- 

 late, exceeding the buds. Calyx ^ in , shaggy with white hairs; teeth 

 setaceous, as Lng as the tube. Corolla little exserted, pale-yellow ; Jceel 

 rather shcrter than the standard and wings. Fod included in the calyx, 

 sessile, cblong, unilocular, finely downy, 3-4-seeded. 



Dehra Dun ( Jacquemont). Distrib. : Punjab Plain, and on the W. Hi- 

 ^ malaya from Kashmir to Kumaon, up to 7,000 feet ,• als j in Afghanistan 



2. A. graveolens, Buch.-Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5929 ; Benth. in Boyle III, 

 199; F. B.J. ii^ 131. A. rotundifolius, Boyle I. c. 



A tall under shrub with copious virgate terete glaucous branches. Leaves 

 4-6 in. long ; stipules 1-1.^ in. long, free, ovate or lanceolate, cordate; 

 leaflets 17-19, roundish or oblong, firm, obtuse, glaucous, glabrous on b th 

 sides. Eacewesonlong peduncles : bracks linear, glabroiis. Calyx^in. long, 

 mouth very oblique, teeth i as long as the tube. Corolla yellow, twice 

 the Cilyx, standard slightly exceeding the wings and keel. Pod I-I5 in. 

 stalked, ensiform, subcompressed, 2-locular, membranous, glabrous, 12- 

 18-seeded. 



Dehra Dun, Oudh (Wallich). Distbib. : W. Himalaya from Kashmir to 

 Kumaon, ascending to 12,000 feet ; also in Afghanistan and Baluchistan. 



34. CYAMOPSIS, DC ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 92. 



Erect annuals, clothed with appressed hairs attached by -their 

 middle. Leaves 3-njany-;foliolate. , Flowers in .axillary racemes, 



