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Petals white tinged with rose-color or with the midrib rose-color, 
3 petals broader than the others; the former elliptical, 7 mm. 
long, 4 mm. broad; the latter oblong, 2-3 mm. broad; apex 
acute, margin membranous. Column short; hoods glabrous ven- 
tricose with a tooth-like swelling on each side near the base and 
subtended by a ring which extends to the wings of the anthers; 
truncate along the top, not open down the back; horn inserted 
along the entire length of the back with the body protruding in 
the shape of a camel’s back from the opening in the hood and 
often with a distinct tooth where the hump curves down to the 
slender acuminate upturned horn which extends above the stigma. 
Capitate stigma and leaf-like appendages which cover it, greenish 
white. Abortive ovaries glabrous, fertile ones white-tomentose. 
Pods erect, pendent or horizontal, on deflexed pedicels which are 
inclined to be curved at the bend, obliquely ovate-acuminate with 
the apex curved upwards, about 10 cm. long and 3-4 cm. wide 
near the base, the broad veins visible beneath the velvety tomen- 
tum. Seeds ovate or spatulate, reticulate, the margin narrow. 
Cleomella alata. Glabrous or slightly viscid-pubescent, 
2 to 5 cm. high, low and spreading, branched from the base and 
also above. Stems winged. Leaves trifoliate; stipules of soft 
bristles; petioles broad, winged, equaling or shorter than the 
leaflets; leaflets petiolulate, linear-oblong, 1-1.5 cm. long (the 
middle leaflet longest), 2 mm. wide, somewhat fleshy, with strong 
mid-nerve and thickened margins, apex aristate with a soft bristle 
-5 mm. long. Fowers corymbosely crowded in the upper axils 
on filiform, elongating peduncles, 5 to 1o mm. long; the upper 
leaves or bracts becoming simple and similar to the leaflets. 
Calyx of 4 triangular-acuminate divisions, 1 mm. long. Petals 
4, yellow, obovate, 2 mm. long. Stamens included, 5 or 6, 2 
united by the filaments, twice as long as the anthers; anthers 
oblong, mucronate. Capsule (immature) on a stipe .5 mm. long, 
obovate, inflated. Style very short, less than .5 mm., divided 
half way. 
This belongs to the same group as Cleomella obtusifolia Torr. 
& Frem. but it is quite distinct from any of the group. : 
It was collected by Mrs. Bruce at Shumway, Lassen County, 
California, June, 1898 (no. 2364a). 
