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the calyx; calyx pubescent, angular, divided more than half way 
to the base, the acuminate lobes nearly equalling the beaks of the 
pubescent carpels; seeds smooth and glabrous. ‘ 
Abundant about the Sierra de la Trinidad of the Cape Region 
of Baja California. The fruit in my specimens breaks early from 
the peduncle at the joint. The pubescence of the beaks of the car- 
pels is minutely glandular, From its description, the species 
seems nearly related to A. membranaceum Baker f. 
Lonchocarpus littoralis. A spreading bush 2 m. high, 
branches pubescent; leaflets two pairs and a terminal one, pubes- 
cent especially below and when young, broadly ovate, acute, ob- 
tuse or rarely retuse, mucronate with the excurrent midrib, 6cm. 
wide, 9 cm. long, or less, on petiolules 4 mm. long; flowers in 
1 dm. long racemes, purple or sometimes white; calyx pubescent, 
7mm. long, the lanceolate lobes as long as the tube and the two 
superior connate nearly to their tips; vexillum orbicular, 1 cm. 
in diameter equalling the wings; stamens in two sets of unequal 
lengths; ovary pubescent, sessile, about 4-ovuled; pod 6-7 cm. 
long, 1.5 cm. wide, pubescent, coriaceous, compressed, pointed, 
attenuate at base, 2-3 mm. thick along the sutures that are some- 
what sulcate, especially the dorsal one, indehiscent, slightly con- 
stricted between the seeds, 
Growing near the coast of the Cape Region. This plant does 
not exactly agree with all the characters of Lonchocarpus, but 
the differences are so slight that it seems best to describe it in that 
genus. The only generic variation is in the calyx, which, in- 
stead of being truncate, with very short or obsolete teeth, is di- 
vided half its length into lanceolate lobes. 
Desmodium Tastense. Annual, stems simple, cylindrical, not 
striate, 1-1.5 dm. high, uncinate-pubescent; leaves usually unifo- 
liate,on pubescent petioles 5-7 mm. long, ovate-acuminate, slight- 
ly mucronate, 1.8 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, chartaceous, strongly 
reticulate, ciliate, green upon both faces, nearly glabrous above, 
slightly pubescent below; stipules 1 mm. wide at base, 4-5 mm. 
long, lanceolate, acuminate, brown, striate, deciduous; inflor- 
escence in small terminal and often axillary few flowered racemes; 
pedicels 12 mm. long; calyx slightly pubescent, 5-toothed; co- 
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