Integrated spectral study of reddened globular clusters and

Abstract. This paper presents integrated spectra in the range 6700 − 9500 A for 20 Galactic globular clusters (and candidates) in the bulge and 5 others projected on the Galactic disk (jlj> 30 and jbj < 5). Most of them are considerably reddened and are among those least studied in the literature. We derive reddening and metallicity from flux-calibrated spectra, thus providing independent infor-mation of that derived through colour-magnitude studies. For some clusters in the sample, these parameters have been determined for the rst time, and for others a con-siderable revision is given. We indicate the globular clus-ters which denitely belong to the bulge metal-rich and intermediate metallicity families. Among the objects pro-jected on the disk, we nd that the integrated spectral properties of Lynga 7, BH 176 and Palomar10 are com-patible with those of metal-rich globular clusters. Finally, ESO 93{SC08 is an old open cluster, and UKS 2 is an open cluster with age 1 Gyr. Key words: (Galaxy:) globular clusters: general | Galaxy: evolution 1