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LEGUMINOSiE. 



LuPiNUS PANiCTTLATTJS, Dcs)\j var. ABaENTEUs- Tliis is the 

 dominant social species about Chicla, covering the steep slopes in 

 many places np to a level of about 12,500 feet ! 



LiTPiNus MiciiOPHYLTiUS, Besr., var. ARaTBEius, nob, ? Above 

 Casapalta, about 14,300 feet ! A dwarf plant, with decumbent 

 branches^, 3 or 4 inches in length, the leaves, and especially the 

 calyx and bracts, covered with silky hairs, the petiole twice or 

 thrice as long as the seven narrow leaflets. The immature 

 legume appears to be broader and less pointed than in the true 

 i. mio'ophylliis. The same plant was collected by Mathews at 

 Chachapo^as, beariug his number 1570, and may perhaps deserve 

 to rank as a separate species. 



Medicago denticulata, WillcL In the upper liimac valley, 

 between 9000 and 10,000 feet j not uncommon, but doubtless 

 introduced ! 



Melilotus ixdtca, AIL=^1. paiwiflora, Desf. In the valley of 

 the Bimac, ascending above the level of 9000 feet. Doubtless 

 introduced ! 



Trifolium amabile, S. j5. K. Chicla ! This differs a little 

 from the ordinary fox^m in having the petioles hairy, and the 

 peduncles clothed with short adpressed liairs. 



TKiroLiUM AMABILE, 11. B. K.^ var. Pextlandi, nol. ? Chicla ! 



Ditfert a typo hirsutia totius planta?, ramis brevibus prostratis, 



pedunculis axillaribus brevissimis, calycis dentibus brevioribus, 



tubo quam in typo lougiore. 



The same plant was collected by Pentland near the lake of 



Titicaca. It may 



Walp 



Eep. i. p. 644, of which I have seen no authentic specimen, or 

 may rank as a distinct species ; but provisionally I prefer to place 

 it as a variety of T, amabile* 



Trieolium ciiiclejn'se, n. sp. Found sparingly near Chicla ! 



Pcrenne, e coUo radicis crassa^ lignosse ramos plurimos breves 

 prostrates edens; foliis apicem versus ramorum confertis, longi- 

 uscule petiolatis, petiolis sparsim pilosis, foliolis glabris late 

 obovato-cuneatis argute serrulatis ; stipulis lineari-lanceolatis, 

 acuminatis ; capitulis 1-8-floris, subsessilibus, versus baam ramo- 



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